Syrian children’s memories of home fade in Jordan camp
By Bushra Shakhshir ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan (Reuters) – Over five years of Syria's civil war, tents have given way to sturdy shacks in Jordan&039;s Zaatari Refugee Camp, dusty tracks have been paved, acquiring names, and a generation has been born to parents who fear their children will never see home. Hudhayfah Al Hariri, who fled from Deraa four years ago, witnessed Zaatari as it mushroomed to a settlement of 85,000 refugees, becoming by population Jordan&039;s fourth largest "city". Children play between their makeshift homes, schools operate, doctors attend to all, babes in arms to the elderly. The father of two worries his children later born in the camp – Retaj, 2, and Yaman, 8 months – might lose any link to home and family left behind.
