Ideas Box brings an oasis of learning to Syria child refugees

Creative outlet: A child draws during the inauguration of the Ideas Box kit, an initiative of French NGO Libraries without Borders (BSF), at Azraq refugee camp hosting Syrian refugees who fled the deadly conflict in their country in Jordan. Photos: AFP

The middle of a desert is not the kind of place you’d expect to be able to sit down with a good book, watch a movie or surf the Internet.

But that is exactly what children who have fled the deadly conflict in Syria are now able to do at Azraq refugee camp in Jordan.