Jordan
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Grenade strike at a football game left 15-year-old Abdusalaam handicapped and changed his future
I was in Mafraqi, on the Jordanian side near the Syrian border, watching as people arrived at a prosthesis clinic to be treated. Many of the arrivals had lost a leg or an arm in the war across the border. They had been brought across the border to receive treatment, since there was none on […]
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Amman Calling
How would you feel sending your children to study in a school that was damaged in battle and had no learning materials available? What would you think if your child was attending a class much lower than other children his age because the exams were in a foreign language and he couldn’t pass them? Would […]
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“I wish Syria would get back on its feet!”
Reading the newspapers in Jordan, one sees stories every day about how many Syrians have again crossed the border to Jordan. According to today’s paper, 67 refugees had entered the country within 48 hours. After emergency personnel had tended to the wounded, the refugees were taken to the safety of a refugee camp. All of […]
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The garden grows in the desert refugee camp
The war in Syria already tires the aid donors around the world, but even more it exhausts the individuals that are placed inside the refugee camps. Intended to be temporary, the camps in the northern part of Jordan may become permanent residential places. Zaatri camp, set up in 2012, already has its own government, security forces, […]
