Tag: memoir

• How I Ended Up So Far From Home (Part 2)

  

  Working in Zaatari Camp for Syrian Refugees in Jordan This is Part 2 of my Far From Home series. Read Part 1 here. There was the look of it: an ugly desert plain with tin trailers crowded on top of each other, clotheslines strung up between them, and people walking heads bowed along the dusty…

  Georgie Nink

  July 3, 2022

  Humanitarian work

  expat, humanitarian, memoir, refugees, syria, Zaatari

• How I Ended Up So Far From Home (Part 1)

  

  Working in Zaatari Camp for Syrian Refugees in Jordan Freezing cold: winter in the desert camp. I am standing in a tin trailer in the drafty wet drippings of winter. Rain slides down off the edges of the roof. The staff meeting is about to begin and people are milling about, coming in and out…

  Georgie Nink

  June 26, 2022

  Humanitarian work

  humanitarian, memoir, NGOs, refugees, syria, trauma, Zaatari