In Jordan camp, Syrian refugees choose school over child marriage

Chatting enthusiastically in a classroom at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, a group of Syrian teenage girls share stories ...

Struggling in Jordan, Syrians choose to move to refugee camps

Unemployed and hit by rising fuel and electricity prices, some Syrian refugees in Jordan are making a painful choice: moving ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Professor creates maps for refugee camp

Brian Tomaszewski hopes to make riots, fires and sand storms a little easier to manage at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. The assistant professor of information sciences and technologies at ...
Los Angeles Times

Refugee Camps Set Up in Jordan

AMMAN, Jordan — United Nations relief workers have begun setting up makeshift camps near Jordan’s eastern border to accommodate refugees expected to cross over from Iraq if the U.S. leads a war ...
ABC News

THIS IS HOME: How Child Refugees in Za'atari Learn to Cope With New Life

The camp's Makani centers provide psychosocial support to refugee children. — -- Drawings of families holding hands under lopsided suns adorn the walls of an informal learning center in Jordan’s ...
International Rescue Committee

Shrinking health services put mothers and newborns at risk in Za’atari Refugee Camp, warns the IRC

30% of health services in Za’atari have shut down in recent years due to funding shortfalls. The IRC’s clinic is now one of the few remaining facilities still able to provide lifesaving care. 1 in 4 ...
UNHCR

Angelina Jolie travels to Syria-Jordan border as refugee influx continues

AMMAN, Jordan, December 6 (UNHCR) - UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie has travelled to the Jordan-Syria border overnight on Wednesday-Thursday to meet frightened and exhausted Syrian refugees who had ...
CNN

Palestinian refugees and the 'right of return'

The United Nations promptly established the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to help care for those Palestinians. By June 30, 2000, more than 3.7 million ...
UNHCR

Jordan's Azraq becomes world's first clean energy refugee camp

AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan – Thousands of Syrian families will light up their homes, charge their phones and chill their food by solar power tonight, as Jordan’s Azraq camp becomes the first refugee ...
Time

Will Syria’s Refugee Crisis Drain Jordan of Its Water?

Now that spring has arrived in the Middle East, Syria’s estimated 1.2 million refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan can hope for relief from the snow, the rain and the bitterly cold nights of winter.
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From Jordan to UAE: How startup provides energy access to refugees

A Dubai-based technology start-up is helping power refugee camps in Jordan. Smart Eye Global is supporting the Azraq Refugee Camp, which faced severe electricity shortages, with a smart system that ...