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Zaatari camp, Jordan: Electricity

Look up, and wrapped around the street lights dotted throughout Zaatari you see spaghetti-style bundles of wires. Look down, and you will see those same slender wires cascading to the ground and then running off in a myriad of directions. Welcome to the electrical grid – the unofficial version – of the largest refugee camp in the Middle East. There are an estimated 10,000 illegal connections which feed off Zaatari’s power supply – or 186miles of tiny threads criss-crossing the camp.