INTRODUCTION

Life in a refugee camp. The images of sprawling, smoke-filled tent cities are familiar enough to anyone who watches the nightly television news. But the reality of life in such a place - day after day, year after year - is almost unimaginable for most of us.

The purpose of this unit is to bring the almost unimaginable into focus.

• Lesson 1: Refugee camps as large as cities
• Lessons 2 and 3: Maintaining a Refugee Camp

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