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Episode 4: The Boy on the Bicycle

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Go on an unprecedented tour, guided by 16-year-old Syrian boy Ahmed, through one of the biggest refugee camps in the world, Zaatari in Jordan.

Ahmed is like any other boy his age, except he has had to leave everything behind, including his toys and technology, to move to the refugee camp. Life in Zaatari is nothing compared to home. When the Syrian civil war began in 2012, his family had to abandon their affluent lives and flee across the border with thousands of others for safety. Now living in a storage container for a home, he has been in Zaatari for three years, along with 80,000 other refugees who cannot leave the camp without permission.

Despite their camp having everything they need, from shops to a hospital, school and football pitches, life is very different to how it was before. Ahmed does not let this affect his positivity, though. He finds new ways to have fun with his friends, even if it is in a desert sandstorm followed by flooding!

As Ahmed cycles around the five-mile-square camp, he introduces some of the other inspirational children who live there and we see the reality of life in a refugee camp from a child's unique point of view. Show less

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