(8 Aug 2022) JORDAN ZAATARI CAMP
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Zaatari camp, Jordan - 7 August 2022
1. Wide of Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees
2. Various of Syrian refugees at main market street
3. Pan right of Amal Hoshan, also known as Umm Khaled, Syrian refugee from Daraa, her son and a relative repairing floor of their shelter
4. Various of Hoshan inside her shelter
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amal Hoshan, Syrian refugee from Daraa:
"When we arrived at the camp, the conditions in Syria were very bad. I was afraid for my daughters and my son, so I decided to seek refuge in a safe place. The camp was a safe place for us. I expected to stay for ten days to a month maximum, then return home. These were my thoughts. But unfortunately, our expectations were wrong, this is a war."
6. Items, Hoshan inside her shelter
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amal Hoshan, Syrian refugee from Daraa:
"When we first arrived at the camp, the situation was very tragic; it was a desert, there was mud, dust, and people were living in tents. The situation was very bad and I was afraid for my daughters and my son, for their educational, for their mental and physical health. The circumstances had very changed for them; from a house we owned, going to regular schools, having trees and green areas, moving from all of that to a tragic situation."
8. Floor of shelter damaged in flash floods in winter
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amal Hoshan, Syrian refugee from Daraa:
"After the coronavirus, the situation was worsened because of the high prices, the lack of funding, the pressures of life, such as diseases, lack of education, living conditions. The pressure has increased."
10. Wide of Syrian refugees at main market street
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Hannah Patchett, policy and media manager for Oxfam in Jordan:
"Ten years on, we can see in the camp that there's been huge improvements in infrastructure. Tents have been replaced by caravans. There are 32 schools in the camp. There are hospitals. But the camp is still an emergency solution. And as you can see from the case of Umm Khaled (Amal Hoshan), caravans are meant to last six to eight years, and hers is already deteriorating. It's in need of repairing. And most of the caravans in the camp now, they have damaged to their flooring. Many of them have leaks in the roofs. This kind of symbolizes that the camp is a temporary solution. And what Syrians need at this point, ten years after this camp was established, in 11 years into the (Syrian) conflict, is to think about longer term solutions."
12. Hoshan's son fixing floor of shelter
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Hannah Patchett, policy and media manager for Oxfam in Jordan:
"We see at Oxfam as a humanitarian organization, we see that there still remain vast humanitarian needs in the camp. Over the past six months, what we've witnessed in the camp is that these needs are getting worse. There have been a series of cumulative crises that have led to deterioration in the economic conditions for all people in Jordan. But when you look at refugees, they have mostly exhausted all of their savings. They don't have family networks here that they can depend on. So these crises hit them much harder. We've had Covid which led to a big rise in unemployment in the camp and across Jordan. And now, more recently, the Ukraine crisis. What we're seeing is a rise in prices alongside a drop in jobs available, drop in the kind of cash-for-work program that we have at Oxfam, which provides income opportunities alongside these rising prices. So the conditions are deteriorating."
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