The Refugee Camp – Our Desert Home – Part 2
Catch up with the most recent episode of The Refugee Camp – Our Desert Home. From Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 9pm on BBC 2. Available to watch free, online here on BBC iPlayer.
This is the first of a two-part documentary about Zaatari, a refugee camp in Jordan. It is home to 80,000 Syrians who have fled the bombs and bullets of the civil war. Originally there were just a few hundred tents but now there are over 24,000 homes, as well as a busy shopping street, hospitals and schools.
Anita Rani, Ben Timberlake and Javid Abdelmoneim immerse themselves in the life of the camp, tackling the logistics of providing water in the middle of the desert, meeting some of the children recovering from the injuries of war and finding out how 90,000 loaves of bread are baked every day.