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Extended Family and Jordan

: When they decided to make the 10-hour trek to safety in Jordan, they thought they were just coming for a few weeks, according to Huffington Post Canada. That was three years ago. Two storeys high and with ornate window work, he had been living there with his extended family -- twenty people in all -- before the bombing started. Most of the people I met in Za'atari were like Nasr: they arrived at the camp, now home to nearly 80,000 refugees, thinking it would be just a few weeks before they could go back home to Syria. But the camp has slowly grown into a city, and the idea of returning home has become a distant dream. As a result, many didn't even bother enrolling their children in school. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.