Women are at forefront of economic experiment in Jordan to find work for Syrians fleeing warEvery day at 6am,Fatima waits external the gates of Jordan’s largest refugee camp for a bus that takes her and 18 other Syrian refugee women to work in a factory an hour’s drive absent.
It is the first job the 37-year-old mother of five from Damascus has ever had. Fatima has been mute since birth. She uses an improvised sign language to explain that her husband is lazy and spends his days smoking in their makeshift domestic in the huge Zaatari refugee camp, which houses 80000 people near the border with Syria.
Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk