[Picture from same article - copyright irinnewsorg,
17/12/2012 - Photo Heba Aly/IRIN]
17.12.2012. Selling packets of crisps
under the sun between wind-blown tents at Za’atari refugee camp in northern
Jordan, Samir* recalls the days he was able to attend school back in Syria.
"I enjoyed my time when I went to
school and read my textbooks,” the 12-year-old told IRIN. “[Here] I am waiting
to sell everything in this box before I can get lunch," he said.
More than half the Syrian refugees in
Jordan are under 18, and while the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) does not have
any figures, it says it has observed a “tendency” of Syrian children working in
Za’atari camp. (It will soon be conducting an assessment of child protection
issues in Jordan’s host communities in part to better understand this trend.)
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