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Jordan Hosts: Euros Plant and Azraq Camp

jordan hosts: In the first phase, it will serve 20,000 of 35,000 people in Azraq camp, according to CTV. The plant's capacity is to be more than doubled to provide power to all residents, for an eventual cost of 9.7 million 8.75 million euros the U.N. refugee agency said. The 4.5 million 4 million euros plant was funded by a foundation established by Ikea, the global home furnishings retailer. The investment in sustainable energy was yet another expression of the protracted nature of the Syrian refugee crisis. Jordan hosts some 660,000 Syrian refugees, more than 80 per cent in communities and the rest in three camps of which Azraq is the second-largest. Some 5 million Syrians have fled their homeland since conflict erupted there in 2011 and quickly turned into a brutal civil war. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.