Syria crisis: Zaatari refugee camp manager answers readers’ questions | Global development | theguardian.com
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has warned that more than a million Syrian children are facing “catastrophic” life in exile, missing out on education, being forced in to work and facing loneliness and discrimination. Children who live in camps and those living in host communities both face the same problems.
Zaatari camp manager Kilian Kleinschmidt thinks the Syria’s refugee crisis is best understood through the behaviour of children. He says: ‘‘The moral, traditional and societal values of the community is unravelling. It is losing its bearings. And as the community has become dysfunctional – so have the children.’’
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Are we looking at a lost generation? What are Zaatari’s children missing out on? How can traumatised children have space to be children again? Kleinschmidt will also be answering general questions about Zaatari camp, Jordan’s “fifth city’’ with its very own Champs-Elysées shopping area. What would you like to know?
