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Syria's refugees. Alexander Betts: Our refugee system is failing. Here's how we can fix it. Melissa Fleming: Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive. 8 practical ways to help refugees. Melissa Fleming of the UN’s Refugee Agency shares some ways to help refugees right now. When a million refugees showed up in Europe this past year, the world began to take notice of a problem that has been steadily growing before our eyes. Ten years ago, 38 million people had been driven from their homes because of war or persecution; right now that number stands at over 65 million. That’s equivalent to the population of France … drifting, stranded, with little hope of returning home, and few chances to thrive in neighboring countries.
In Europe, the lack of a unified system to manage the influx of refugees and migrants is exacerbating the problem. People are either welcomed or shunned. On the streets of European cities, I have seen both remarkable generosity and irrational fear. People often ask me what they can do to help. But of course you don’t have to volunteer in person. 1. Help refugees where you are. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. There’s always money. Return to Zaatari: A lost generation of Syrians in the making The first time I met Halim Mahameed, he told me of how he’d been tortured for two straight days by Syrian security forces. Almost robotically, the then-14-year-old recounted how he’d been tied up by Bashar al-Assad’s men the previous year and whipped with electric cables because he’d been seen helping to carry the wounded away from an anti-regime demonstration in the early days of Syria’s conflict. Things should have gotten better for Halim after we met in the fall of 2013.
He was then in a Unicef-run school in Jordan’s sprawling Zaatari refugee camp. And while some were already warning of a traumatized “Zaatari generation” growing up angry among the four million Syrian refugees scattered around the Middle East, the case workers who introduced me to Halim said he was a success story in terms of how well he was mentally processing the ordeal he’d been through in Syria. But the world ignored the warnings. And life has gotten worse for the Zaatari generation. Mr. Inside Zaatari: Syrian refugees turn desert into one of the world's largest refugee camps. Updated In the dusty desert of northern Jordan a city has emerged out of the sand. Two years ago Syrian families began arriving here, fleeing war and persecution in their homeland. Almost overnight the United Nations (UN) was forced to set up a refugee camp, and what started as a few tents has now grown into a city of about 100,000 people.
Click or tap to toggle before/after Photos: See the incredible expansion of the Zaatari refugee camp, which has grown from nothing into a city of about 100,000 people since the Syrian conflict began. Twelve-year-old Dina Hariri was among the first to arrive at the camp with her parents and three siblings. "Before we left we said we will stay 10 days, or 15, maybe one month at the most. Her family left Syria after Dina's father Abu Diaa and her older brother were among the many imprisoned and tortured by the government of Bashar al-Assad.
"It was indescribable fear. Jordan - where Zaatari camp is - currently hosts 600,000 Syrians. Unhcr syria education interrupted 1.
'ACA' Dance Program. Refugee Transitions Issue 23 music therapy helps refugees. Ten things you didn’t know about refugees. Syrian children pull water bottles at the Bab Al-Salam refugee camp in Azaz, near the Syrian-Turkish border, on June 9, 2013. REUTERS/Hamid Khatib Today is World Refugee Day - and the latest statistics from the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) show world refugee numbers are higher than at any time since 1994. As U.N. refugee chief Antonio Gutteres put it at a recent news conference: “Each time you blink, another person is forced to flee.”
UNHCR’s annual report shows that some 45.2 million people were uprooted by violence, persecution or rights abuses as of the end of last year, but the numbers also challenge some common misconceptions about refugees and displacement. Here are 10 things you may not have known. 1. Until you do, you’re just a person who’s been uprooted within your own country - or an internally displaced person (IDP), to use the aid world jargon.
The difference matters because it’s only by crossing a border that you gain the protection of international laws and conventions. 2. 3. Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud. Particle Smash – Museum Of Applied Arts And Sciences. 60.000 school children from Syria and Jordan can go to school in Jordan with the help of Germany, says Minister Mueller. Four years in, my trip to Zaatari. By Farah Dakhlallah UNICEF/MENA/Dakhlallah Children playing at Zaatari camp. Some of the camp inhabitants have painted their homes to add a little colour to the bleak surroundings. I feel that I have been here before. It is intensely familiar: the long drive along deserted highways under a baking sun, whizzing past a lone shepherd herding a flock of sheep, then a desolate petrol station.
Past the checkpoint, we approach some dusty streets lined with pre-fab houses. They used to be tents – I think to myself – in 2009. This place is much bigger than the one I knew – better organised – and the structures are more permanent. Seven years ago, working for UNHCR in Syria, I became well acquainted with two desert camps hosting Palestinians from Iraq. This time the Syrians are the refugees. UNICEF/MENA/DakhlallahSouk street, the camp’s main thoroughfare, is also known as the Champs Elysees This is Zaatari, famously the world’s second largest refugee camp. Cardboard – Google.
Clouds Over Sidra | Vídeo 360º | Oculus Rift DK2. What's in My Bag? :: What Refugees Bring When They Run for Their Lives. The following has been republished with kind permission from the International Rescue Committee. This year, nearly 100,000 men, women and children from war-torn countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia have fled their homes and traveled by rubber dinghies across the Aegean Sea to Lesbos, Greece. Refugees travel light, for their trek is as dangerous as it is arduous. They are detained, shot at, hungry. Smugglers routinely exploit them, promising safety for a price, only to squeeze them like sardines into tiny boats. Most have no option but to shed whatever meager belongings they may have salvaged from their journeys. Few arrive at their destinations with anything but the necessities of life. “You will feel that you are a human. A mother Name: Aboessa* Age: 20 From: Damascus, Syria When vicious fighting erupted in Yarmouk, an unofficial camp for Palestinians just south of the Syrian capital, Aboessa managed to escape with her husband and their 10-month-old daughter, Doua.