You have to admire these people. No matter how dire their conditions, they find a way to keep going.
At Zaatari refugee camp, Syrians build a makeshift city in the desert
Electricity is sporadic but ingenuity is everywhere in the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan.
By Nabih Bulos
March 1, 2014, 7:00 a.m.
ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan — The action is frenzied along the "Champs Elysees," the euphemistically named main drag of this bustling settlement, the world's largest concentration of Syrian refugees. Children jump and cling to the sides of pickup trucks slowly navigating the busy artery, while young men push wheelbarrows laden with goods bearing the emblems of the many aid agencies working here.
In 18 months, Zaatari has been transformed from a lunar-like stretch of uninhabited and forbidding desert into Jordan's fourth-most populous city, a pop-up community of roughly 120,000 people 50 miles north of Amman, the capital.
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At Zaatari refugee camp, Syrians build a makeshift city in the desert - latimes.com
At Zaatari refugee camp, Syrians build a makeshift city in the desert
Electricity is sporadic but ingenuity is everywhere in the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan.
By Nabih Bulos
March 1, 2014, 7:00 a.m.
ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan — The action is frenzied along the "Champs Elysees," the euphemistically named main drag of this bustling settlement, the world's largest concentration of Syrian refugees. Children jump and cling to the sides of pickup trucks slowly navigating the busy artery, while young men push wheelbarrows laden with goods bearing the emblems of the many aid agencies working here.
In 18 months, Zaatari has been transformed from a lunar-like stretch of uninhabited and forbidding desert into Jordan's fourth-most populous city, a pop-up community of roughly 120,000 people 50 miles north of Amman, the capital.
Read more at:
At Zaatari refugee camp, Syrians build a makeshift city in the desert - latimes.com
