An Uncertain Future: Off to School

Three young girls walk to school in the Baqaa Palestinian Refugee Camp near Amman, Jordan. The camp contains approx 150,000 refugees and is the largest of the 19 official refugee camps in the Middle East and the largest of 9 in Jordan. Jordan has been placed in a difficult position by U.S. foreign policy in the it is geographically located between Israel and Iraq and has to cope with the Israeli/Palestinian issie and the possible U.S. led invasion of Iraq.
Off to School, Jordan, December, 2002

Three young girls walk to school in the Baqaa Palestinian Refugee Camp near Amman, Jordan. The camp contains approx 150,000 refugees and is the largest of the 19 official refugee camps in the Middle East and the largest of 9 in Jordan. Jordan has been placed in a difficult position by U.S. foreign policy in the it is geographically located between Israel and Iraq and has to cope with the Israeli/Palestinian issie and the possible U.S. led invasion of Iraq.