John visits the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan and meets refugee families (2016)
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John's visit to the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, driving out from Amman in 2016. He first mentions it while telling of the Azraq camp, where the girls of the Tiger Group told him they most wanted to learn, and later tells the visit in full.
About: Jordan, Amman, Zaatari refugee camp
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-08 | told | The day before, in the Zaatari camp, John met the Tiger Group, where young women mentor girls; asked what they wanted most, Aryam and Farah immediately answered 'to learn'. | Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp 00:00:52 |
| 2016-06-07 | told | John tells of driving out from Amman to visit the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan and meeting refugee families there. | Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2016-06-07 · Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp — John's description thanks UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, for allowing him to visit Zaatari and for all its work. — video description
- 2016-03-08 · Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp — John: Nahid, a mother of young children who volunteers as a teacher, told John she wants her children to have a good education. — 00:01:03
- 2016-03-08 · Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp — John says Syria used to be a well-educated nation, but the civil war has changed that. — 00:01:10
- 2016-03-08 · Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp — John: Aida, only five when the war began, has never been to school and Majeeda has been out of school for years; asked what she wanted now she was safe, Aida said not food or rest but 'We need to study.' — 00:01:14
- 2016-03-08 · Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp — John says camp schools are underfunded, so classes meet only half of each day and a primary classroom sometimes holds over 75 students. — 00:01:28
- 2016-03-08 · Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp — John: For the past four months the children walked 10 km almost every day to find firewood at the border, and before that moved around Syria for years to stay safe. — 00:01:40
- 2016-03-08 · Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp — John: Asked whether she had lost friends in the war, Aida began to cry; John felt terrible asking but wants viewers to know there should be another sister here. — 00:01:51
- 2016-03-08 · Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp — John insists Aida and Majeeda have rich, complex lives that aren't mere tragedies: warm kids who joked, played with their little brothers and taught him a Syrian hide-and-seek. — 00:02:07
- 2016-03-08 · Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp — John: Through interpreter Nida, Aida's message to American children her age was that they just want to go to school and to have a life. — 00:02:25