Zaatari

I was recently asked how technology can be used to help out refugees living in camps, and relived the experience of just how completely out of touch we are with refugee camps.

The medical situation in the Zaatari refugee camp is difficult to understand. At over 80,000 people, Zaatari is more like a slum than a camp, and providing adequate medical

The clinic opened its doors 5 years ago, in 2012. The whole medical center consisted of a single "caravan" - half was the "exam room" with

So far, I've been at the Zaatari refugee camp for 3 weeks, and yet I've never gone more than 100 feet away from the medical center, and have spent >

By now, things have gotten relatively routine for me at the Zaatari refugee camp[1]. The security guards at the camp's entrance now know us pretty well, as do basically

Water is a hot topic in the Middle East, particularly the more inland you go. Jordan has a massive water scarcity problem[1], and with more refugees coming from Syria

Medical education is huge in the refugee camp. With severed communication links to the rest of the world and lack of higher education, the camp had developed workarounds to deal with the knowledge shortage.

Today is my last day with the main mission, and I'm working with the ophthalmologist since it's his last day too. I feel like I'm starting to get the flow

Today's my second day at the camp, and this time I at least have some idea what to expect based on my experience yesterday. This time, though, I'm interpreting for

Today was my first day at the Zaatari refugee camp, and I'm speechless and breathless. Today, every possible line was blurred, all the way from the broken-down language barriers in