Refugee Tent Camp

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Imagine you're off to the library. You park your car, walk inside, get your books, and walk out. Sounds easy right? Now imagine you're walking to a library. It took you a while, but you finally get there. You walk into the building ,but you go down a flight of steps and walk into a room. You're there because if the library was upstairs you would probably get killed. The building you walked into was destroyed by bullets and bombs. If you think it’s hard to imagine, just think how it feels to live is Syria.
In the article “Refugee Tent Camp for Syrians Grows into a Busy Jordanian City” by the Associated Press it states that there is a town called Zaatari, it is the ninth biggest city in Jordan and about three years ago the city was once
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For instance that most of the children who live in Zaatari don’t go to school and for Adults it’s hard for them go get a job. “ International agencies such as the United Nations had to reduce aid amid severe money shortages and additional cuts were announced on July 31. Refugees who live in cities could soon face the hard choice of moving into a camp where life is cheaper- only Azraq is taking newcomers- or returning to Syria (Associated press, 3)”. Some people like Islam, ignore what is happening in the outside world or in her life by doing some simple activities like reading in the Library or games.
For the people who live in Syria they don’t have much as an education as we do in the United States so it’s very lucky if they have the chance. Thankfully for Anas and his friends some of the kids in Syria have the chance to read in the library with more than 14,000 books. One boy who is 14 and his name is Amjad. He comes to the library everyday because he feels safe there and he enjoys to read. Some people plant crops and or flowers. Al-Sheik is one of the people who live in Zaatari. Him and his family own at least five acres of farming land. He plants vegetables and his wife teaches English in grade

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