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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

According to BBC journalist, refugee camp for Syrians in Jordan is "fertile ground for small businesses"


This is what the Western countries have done to the Syrian people .... made them into refugees living the life of beggars.  And, for what?  For trying to oust Assad who is considered to be a BFF of Iran and thus gets himself and his country  in the bad books of Israel and hence in the bad books of the Israel-controlled USA and her allies?

Do you really think Syrians are so stupid that they don't realize who, what, why of it all? There will be many who will say it's Assad's fault, knowing fully well that, that's what the Western journalists want their response to be when asked the cause of the trouble in Syria, but they know, they know what's known to us all even if many want to deny it. They will never forgive those responsible for their present state .... just like the Palestinians.  I don't blame them. 

The chutzpah of the BBC journalist is something else and shows it all in the heading of the article. These refugees are people who escaped the ongoing civil war, they have been uprooted from their lives, livelihood, homes, family, environment and daily routine and plonked into a refugee camp of a bordering country and yet Dale Gavlak thinks "Zaatari Syrian refugee camp fertile ground for small businesses"   .... maybe a fertile ground to bury their sad bodies in, not a fertile ground for the peace and sanity of their minds, not  a fertile ground for the upbringing of children,  not a fertile ground for any lasting happiness.  

Dale Gavlak writing at BBC:
Zaatari Syrian refugee camp fertile ground for small businesses.

Wheelchair-bound Mohamed Harib does not let his infirmity get in the way of a chance for business.

He has joined hundreds of compatriots setting up shops in Zaatari camp, Jordan's largest facility for Syrian refugees.
"I opened the shop to try to support my family because there are eight of us here," Mr Harib said of his tiny mobile phone stall sandwiched along Zaatari's bustling main drag, nicknamed the Champs-Elysees, after the famous Parisian street - a wink at Syrian humour.....

........The United Nations official in charge of Zaatari, Kilian Kleinschmidt, attributes the refugees' background as "traditionally traders, smugglers" to the camp's rapid evolution into an informal city in just two years.
Although sprawling and slum-like, the lively camp boasts of home-grown barber shops, wedding rentals, vegetable stalls and even a travel agency and pizza delivery service.......

........Aid officials say Zaatari has also spurred new ways humanitarians assist Syrian refugees in Jordan by seeking creative, sometimes private enterprise solutions.
Jordan hosts some 600,000 Syrian refugees registered with the UN, but authorities says their numbers could top one million......

......One of those innovations has allowed private supermarket chains, such as Safeway, to set up shop in Zaatari to try to give Syrian refugees more freedom of food choice.
The refugees use UN-issued debit cards, provided gratis from a Jordanian bank, containing their monthly food allowance to pay for their groceries both inside and outside the camp.
The debit cards will eventually be linked with the refugees' biometric data and could be soon used to buy medicine, clothing, and cooking gas refills.
"It's the first time ever in the world that this will be done in the retail environment," said Jonathan Campbell.........

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