Zaatari camp, Jordan: Street scenes
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The entrance to the camp. For many refugees, entering the gates is the first time they feel truly safe. Some families have endured two years of continuous flight within Syria to escape the fighting before finally leaving for Jordan. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Families walk along the five mile ring road that encircles the camp. To the left, behind the fence, is the compound where new arrivals are first registered. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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The camp covers two square miles of desert and is home to 120,000 people, half of which are children. 93 per cent of the refugees are from the neighbouring Syrian province of Da’ara. In the right of the picture a ‘dust devil’ – made of fine talcum powder-like dust – sweeps across the camp. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Behind the wall and barbed wire is the French Military Hospital – one of three in the camp. There are nine other medical facilities. This sign points to the Champs Élysées, one of Paris’s most famous shopping streets. The name has been adopted by aid workers to describe the busy market street on which the hospital is positioned. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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A boy leans on a wheelbarrow as he awaits trade. Due to the narrowness of the tracks that criss-cross the camp, most goods and belongings are transported by wheelbarrow. Although food and water is provided, youngsters often find they have to help out to support their families. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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With an uncertain future, many of the refugees pour their energies into trying to make a living. Here, a man welds two steel posts which will be used to turn a prefabricated container into a shop. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Further up the street a stall doing basic electrical repairs is in full flow. Refugees illegally tap into the camp's power supply to run fans, lights and TVs, to keep track of the conflict back home. There are estimated to be 10,000 illegal connections dotted around the camp. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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A shop trading in jewellery offers refugees the opportunity to buy as well as sell. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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As night falls and the heat of the day ebbs away, the street comes to life. Here a boy in a Manchester United shirt mans a candy floss and popcorn stall. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Here a makeshift bakery is busy making pitta bread. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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A youngster hard at work in the bakery carries freshly baked bread with makeshift tongs. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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A boy uses a wheelchair to take his sisters out in the evening air. With the conflict disrupting normal family structures, greater burdens are placed on older children. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Refugees queue outside a stall where gas cylinders are for sale. The population lives in 25,000 shelters composed of 8,000 tents and 17,000 pre-fabricated shelters, measuring 15 by 18 metres. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Young boys gather round a restaurant grilling meat. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Increasingly, families and relatives move the pre-fab containers to where they want and weld them together to create a larger living area. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Here a makeshift fountain has been created - complete with CDs for decoration - to remind these refugees of the home they left behind. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Close to midnight and all is quiet in the desert camp. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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This is the area where refugees who have made the dangerous crossing are taken when they arrive. Vulnerable individuals such as single mothers are identified and given extra care. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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A child makes his way through a track beside the camp’s shelters which house the camp’s 120,000 refugees. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Each day, 3.5million litres of water are distributed. It is also an opportunity for children to help out, look on, or hang off the back of the water truck. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Nowhere is the dynamism of the refugees more evident than in the stalls thronging the main street which runs alongside the ‘Old Town’ of the camp. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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A young man carries a bundle of molokhia in a stall selling vegetables. The leaves of molokhia are usually boiled and likened to okra. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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A man selling tamarind juice plies his trade in the traditional dress of a Turkish coffee seller. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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With a wave, three boys head off to transport goods through the camp. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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The Jordanian government has repeatedly asked the international community for more aid, saying the influx of refugees is putting a massive strain on already overstretched water and power supplies as well as demands for housing and education. (Photo by Jared J. Kohler)
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Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan - just eight miles from the Syrian border - is home to 120,000 people, making it the largest in the Middle East. It costs about £310,000 every day to run, with aid agencies providing food, shelter, water and medicine. Within the two square miles of the camp, a semblance of normal life goes on for the refugees in its streets, stalls and schools.