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Life in a refugee camp

France’s first 'humanitarian-standard' shelter

Migrants and refugees arrive in a refugee camp with humanitarian-standard shelters in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk, in northern France. France's first-ever refugee camp to meet international humanitarian standards opened in early March. So far, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has built roughly 200 of the 375 planned cabins at the site to house approximately 2,500 people.
The face of hope

Tina, a 3-year-old Kurdish girl from Iraq, sits in a wooden shelter in Grande-Synthe. Most of these migrants, mainly Kurds from Iraq, had been living in terrible conditions in the camps of Grande-Synthe and Calais. Among them are 60 women and 74 children.
Laying the foundations

An indigenous Sahrawi teacher attends a class at a school in a desert refugee camp of Boujdour in Tindouf, located in southern Algeria. The five camps there are home to an estimated 165,000 Sahrawi refugees. A mural painted on a wall of the National Union of Sahrawi Women headquarters of the camp reads, "If the present is a struggle, the future is ours."
Life in a Sahrawi refugee camp

An indigenous Sahrawi man rebuilds his house, which was damaged by floods last October, in a refugee camp located in the Al Samra refugee camp. Residents use car batteries for electricity at night and depend on humanitarian aid to survive.
Fear and despair

A girl looks out from a tent at a relocation camp where stranded refugees and migrants wait to cross the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni.
Temporary relief

Children are entertained by a performer at the Idomeni refugee camp. Doctors warn that conditions at the camp are becoming dangerous for children, with medics dealing with a range of illnesses, including hypothermia. The transit camp at the border is becoming increasingly overcrowded as thousands of refugees continue to arrive from Athens and the Greek Islands.
Hoping for a change

A Syrian man walks between tents in a refugee camp in Suruc, Turkey, which is hosting almost 2.7 Million refugees. Despite Ankara government's reassurances, Syrians are still not allowed to work in Turkey, adding to hopelessness among men of working age.
'An unwanted burden'

Children of Afghan refugees attend a class in their school at an Afghan refugee camp in Kalabat, Pakistan. U.N. officials have called on Pakistan to resolve the status of more than 2.5 million Afghan refugees living there.
Living a lost life

In northeastern Sudan, Eritrean asylum seekers rest inside a new arrival center in Wad Sharifey refugee camp during a visit by European Union ambassadors.
'Make do with what you have'

A Syrian refugee boy plays with a tire at Zaatari refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan. This camp was first opened in 2012 to host Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted the year before. Currently, the camp's population is estimated to be over 83,000.