Through the IRC’s Vision not Victim program, young refugees like 16-year-old Nour from Syria gain skills needed to build a better future for themselves.
It is a bitterly cold January morning; we can see our breath in the car as the traffic of Amman gives way to foggy rolling desert. It is about 5:30am and we are headed to Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan.
For an hour there isn’t much to see—an occasional roadside shop, a few factories and refineries. We skirt the city of Mafraq, now home to tens of thousands of displaced Syrians living in one-room apartments, empty shops, anywhere they can find and afford space.