Day In The Life 4: The Crash

A day in the life as a humanitarian aid worker in the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp.

This is Part 4 in my Day In The Life Series. Catch up on Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

We speak with Hannah from the UN in New York for an hour and 15 minutes. She turns out to be kind, not intimidating, which is a relief. She is interviewing Salma, a colleague of mine who is a refugee living in Zaatari, to feature her in an upcoming report about refugee women. Salma understands almost all of the questions, but I translate a few of the more complicated ones. And she says all her answers in Arabic, so I translate them back to Hannah.

The internet gods, amazingly, smile on us the whole time. But people keep opening the door and sticking their heads into the tiny office, and I keep putting my hand up to stop them from coming in while trying to focus on translating what Salma is saying.

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