Inside Za’atari refugee camp with Uma

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By the time this conflict is over, there will be more and more people in refugee camps suffering.

Inside Za’atari refugee camp with Uma
Our Friday columnist — a United Nations World Food Programme partner — hopes you will join her in providing assistance to the needy

• By Uma Ghosh Deshpande, Special to tabloid!
• Published: 00:27 September 5, 2014
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In March this year, I was appointed celebrity partner of the United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP), the world’s largest humanitarian organisation fighting hunger, giving me a role to play in increasing awareness and raising funds. This also gave me the chance to visit the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan last month. This is where millions of Syrian refugees have been left, displaced, dislodged and stripped of everything they know. They are the unfortunate victims of the winds of political ill will; eyewitnesses of the ravage of war and the merciless killing of family members. Nothing do they know of world politics, all they want to know is who is on their side, and will they ever go back home.

2.5 million people have travelled for days and days, dodging terror, attack and death itself, crossing the Syrian border with nothing but the clothes on their back. And half of them are children. They have lost their families, their homes and their livelihood. They are terrorised with the past and terrified of the future. Their stories were very hard to hear.

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