View of the electricity cables in Za’atari refugee camp.
In August 2014 Magnum photographer Michael Christopher Brown travelled to Za’atari and taught a group of Syrian refugee teenagers how to take photographs using an Apple iPhone. This photo was taken by Salem*, a 14 year old Syrian boy living in Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan.
There are two multi-activity centres in Zaâatari refugee camp, one for boys and one for girls. They were setup by Save the Children to provide a space for young people to engage in a wide array of activities, including fitness training, photography, art and non-formal education. Since opening over a year and a half ago, the Centres have become a second home to around 2,000 teenagers a month.
Not only is the centre providing the teenagers with an array of practical and life skills, it is also rebuilding their self-confidence. In Zaâatari many adolescent girls chose to discontinue their education, seeing it irrelevant to camp life, and usually opting for early marriage. The multi-activity center helped dozens of girls get back into school in the camp, emphasizing the importance of education through the activities and also actively engaging the girls in awareness raising activities through art and drama.
Salem* said:
âI learned so many things such as how to take pictures and how to pick the right angle.â
âWe learned how to get the person in the middle and placing a person in a frame such as a circle . We learned a lot of things.â
âMy dream is to become a photographer.â
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