Syrian refugee who excelled in education

 

 

“I used to go from tent to tent and talk with anyone who felt education was not important to encourage them to attend school,” says Muzoon.

She and her family fled their home in southern Syria in 2013, two years after the outbreak of the revolt against five decades of Assad family rule. They settled in Zaatari, the largest of Jordan’s two Syrian refugee camps. Both are situated in desert terrain in northern Jordan, near the border with Syria.

Last month, Muzoon returned to Zaatari, as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund, for the first time since she left Jordan with her family in 2015 for Britain, where they had obtained asylum.