Zaatari
مخيم الزعتري Zaatari |
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Coordinates | 32 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ N , 36 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Basic data | ||
Country | Jordan | |
al-Mafraq | ||
ISO 3166-2 | JO-MA | |
surface | 5 km² | |
Residents | 79,000 (2015) | |
density | 15,800 Ew. / km² | |
founding | July 28, 2012 | |
politics | ||
mayor | Hovig Etyemezian | |
Refugee camp | ||
View of Zaatari, July 2013
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Zaatari (also Saatari , Arabic مخيم الزعتري, DMG Muḫayyam az-Zaʿtarī ) is a refugee camp in northern Jordan , about 10 km east of Mafraq and six kilometers south of the Syrian border. It is one of the world's largest refugee camps and is developing into a permanent settlement; for example, there is a main street with market stalls and shops, called “ Champs-Élysées ”. It is now Jordan's fourth largest city.
Since July 2012, people have found refuge there from the civil war in Syria ; It is estimated that the camp has around 79,000 residents. The United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR is responsible ; The head of the settlement was the German development aid worker Kilian Kleinschmidt . One of his self-imposed tasks is to determine districts and assign street names so that every refugee has a unique address.
Numerous aid organizations such as Doctors Without Borders are active in Zaatari ; Schools were built, a soccer field laid out. The German technical aid organization took care of communal kitchens, sewage and toilets with over 100 employees.
The cost of the refugee camp is around $ 500,000 a day.
Web links
- Zaatari in the UNHCR Data Portal
- Ronen Steinke: Civil War in Syria: Refugees as an Economic Factor . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 24, 2015, accessed on March 9, 2015.
- UNHCR documentary Zaatari: A Day in the Life .
- FAZ.net December 8, 2015: Report from Zaatari
Individual evidence
- ↑ KARIN LAUB: After 3 years, Jordan refugee camp for Syrians now a city - ap, Aug. 2, 2015
- ^ Michael Kimmelman: Refugee Camp for Syrians in Jordan Evolves as a Do-It-Yourself City . In: The New York Times , July 4, 2013, accessed October 16, 2014
- ^ Ronen Steinke: Civil War in Syria: Refugees as an economic factor . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 24, 2015, accessed on March 9, 2015.
- ↑ Information from the UNHCR , accessed on October 17, 2014
- ↑ Takis Würger: The Mayor. In: Der Spiegel , No. 26/2013, June 24, 2013 (date online version)
- ↑ Damian Imöhl: The German "Mayor" of Zaatari. berliner-kurier.de, June 24, 2013, accessed on October 16, 2014
- ↑ Syrian crisis: refugee camp at the limit of capacity. thw.de, April 19, 2013, accessed on October 16, 2014
- ↑ Lucy Rodgers, Gerry Fletcher, Helene Sears, Christopher Ashton, Tian Yuan, Steven Atherton: Zaatari refugee camp: Rebuilding lives in the desert. bbc.com, September 3, 2013, accessed October 16, 2014 (with numerous graphics)