Toufic Beyhum: Entrepreneurial Spirit in Za'atari Refugee Camp for 130,000 SyriansZa'atari Syrian re
Toufic Beyhum: Entrepreneurial Spirit in Za'atari Refugee Camp for 130,000 SyriansZa'atari Syrian refugee camp, 2nd largest refugee camp in the world with the population of around 130,000 Syrians. This street is nicknamed Champs Elysees for all the shops that the Syrian entrepreneur refugees have opened. Artist Statement: Instead of sitting around playing football all day, the refugee kids are trying to make a living. One young boy I met sells three trays of toffee apples everyday on his own. A barber shaves his client in a pop up barbers on the Champs-Elysées, the camp’s central shopping street. Mahmoud was a calligrapher back in Syria and now he makes a living within the camp painting murals and signs for all the shops and restaurants in the camp. Rashed, 14, goes outside the camp to buy furniture in neighbouring Jordanian towns to bring back to trade. Women have also set up their own businesses, offering wedding dresses to rent for 25 Euros a night from shops on the Champse-Elysées.Mobile phone shops have popped up all along the streets. -- source link
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