Jordan: Refugee Camp

refugee camp: The woman, like all those around her, was a refugee from the brutal two-year civil war raging in her homeland. Along with a few members of her immediate family, she had walked across the border a few days before and was now waiting in a shaded reception area to be registered at Jordans newest refugee camp, known as the Emirates-Jordan Camp EJC , according to The Star. An estimated 500,000 Syrian refugees already live in Jordan, and there is no end in sight to the influx. Opened in April, the EJC is the second camp for Syrian refugees established in the country. Located in a remote desert near the city of Zarqa, an hours drive north of Amman, the United Arab Emirates-funded camp is a marvel of humanitarian work. If there is such a thing as a five-star refugee camp, international aid workers and refugees agree, this is it and ZARQA, JORDAN The elderly Syrian woman was tired, but she patiently answered the questions posed to her. Yes, they killed everybody, she said, alluding to her village in southern Syria. My son Muhammed. . . he was serving in the army, and the regime killed him. Her family, along with a few dozen other Syrians, gathered around to answer questions, to have their voices heard. Unlike this old woman, many were laughing and smiling. They were the lucky ones: not only had they fled the carnage with their lives, but they had been sent to this camp. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.