By Michelle Miller and Vidya Singh, CBS News, February 15, 2020
It might look like an average city in the Middle East, but Market Street is the center of commerce in one of the world's largest refugee camps – the Zaatari camp in Jordan. That is where nearly 80,000 Syrians displaced by civil war are now living.
"None of us should ever be okay with calling this normal. But it's become an accepted reality for a lot of people," said Mike Niconchuk, who has been doing humanitarian work in the camp since 2012 and has seen a small collection of tents became something more permanent.
"I saw that journey of what started out as shock of adjusting to this place, of leaving home, of losing friends, losing family, losing the very sense of identity that was once sacred," said Niconchuk.
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