:00:00. > :00:16.It is one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of our
:00:17. > :00:24.generation. A conflict that is not only tearing apart families but an
:00:25. > :00:27.entire country. Around 11 million Syrians have been forced to leave
:00:28. > :00:34.their homes. Many have fled to neighbouring countries to escape the
:00:35. > :00:40.ongoing violence. I'm Nikki Fox, and I in an Jordan, a country that
:00:41. > :00:44.admits it is unable to support the estimated 1.4 million refugees it
:00:45. > :00:48.has already taken in. At the moment, I just think about walking again and
:00:49. > :00:56.everything will come about. Just take it one step? Step-by-step. If
:00:57. > :01:03.we are really looking to respond in a comments of way, and I'm not
:01:04. > :01:08.talking about millions of dollars of financial support, but billions of
:01:09. > :01:12.dollars. With the third having a disability or a series health
:01:13. > :01:13.condition I'm here to find out how the most vulnerable survive --
:01:14. > :01:38.cereus. This is their story. The first place we visit is Zaatari
:01:39. > :01:45.refugee camp, a city in the middle of a desert. This place has grown
:01:46. > :01:51.exponentially since the start of the conflict. Only a few miles from the
:01:52. > :02:02.Syrian border, it is where more than 80,000 refugees have sought safety.
:02:03. > :02:13.With its barbed wire fences and rows of white boxes, it is unlike any
:02:14. > :02:17.city I have ever seen before. The first person I meet is a little girl
:02:18. > :02:24.who is only ever known conflict -- has. Five-year-old Malik Foster left
:02:25. > :02:31.leg when her home in Syria was bombed. She's learning to walk with
:02:32. > :02:43.a new frame. Her mum tells me about the date the 10th came. -- tanks.
:02:44. > :02:58.Malik often forgets she's in pain. But here, she is safe. Goodbye! How
:02:59. > :03:03.difficult is it for you as a man? She didn't want to show her face to
:03:04. > :03:20.protect your family still in Syria -- as a mother?
:03:21. > :03:41.Malik's mother can't afford to dream of going back to Syria. She has more
:03:42. > :03:52.immediate concerns. Living here with a disability is tough. Apart from
:03:53. > :03:58.the fact you are away from your home and everything you know, your
:03:59. > :04:02.family, familiarity, living with a disability is tricky getting around,
:04:03. > :04:06.or just a quick difficult. I can imagine a lot of disabled people do
:04:07. > :04:15.feel a bit trapped in our own spaces, in their own places. They
:04:16. > :04:21.just can't get out. One charity that helps people like Malik is Handicap
:04:22. > :04:25.International. They estimate that around 30% of refugees in the camp
:04:26. > :04:34.have some kind of disability or chronic health condition. Every day,
:04:35. > :04:44.dozens of disabled refugees come for vital treatment. You are pushing me!
:04:45. > :04:52.One of those is 28-year-old Ragda, who has cerebral palsy. Unlike
:04:53. > :04:58.Malik, living in Zaatari has given her a new-found independence. Hello!
:04:59. > :05:03.This could be a bit of a bumpy arrival. Bear with me, they're with
:05:04. > :05:07.me. She fled Syria three years ago. The only way she could do it was by
:05:08. > :05:11.being carried across the border. Lovely to meet you! How did you do
:05:12. > :05:31.it without a wheelchair, Ragda? Ragda's disability meant her life
:05:32. > :05:36.back home difficult -- made her life. She had no wheelchair and very
:05:37. > :05:55.little support. And that was before the war. Do you hope to one day go
:05:56. > :06:13.back home this might know. No? No. Why not? Why?
:06:14. > :06:24.OK! It is only since arriving in Zaatari that Ragda started to get
:06:25. > :06:28.regular physiotherapy to help with her cerebral palsy, but what has
:06:29. > :06:33.really made a difference to her life is the fact she now has a wheelchair
:06:34. > :06:38.from Handicap International. Ragda's parents died in Syria. She
:06:39. > :06:52.is now completely dependent on the charity. Do you feel looked after
:06:53. > :06:58.Hugh? -- here? That is definitely perfect. Ragda, it has been a
:06:59. > :07:03.pleasure meeting you, because I can't imagine how you get around,
:07:04. > :07:09.but you are what we call in the UK a tough cookie. That is what you are,
:07:10. > :07:15.a tough cookie. # Don't be shy
:07:16. > :07:19.# Just roll on by #. Even with a new-found sense of
:07:20. > :07:22.freedom, she said having something like my scooter would make a huge
:07:23. > :07:34.difference to her life. They all want my scooter.
:07:35. > :07:44.LAUGHTER Go around in a circle! The children
:07:45. > :07:48.have been fascinated by my scooter. I don't think anyone has seen a
:07:49. > :07:57.mobility scooter before, not one might this anyway. -- not one like
:07:58. > :08:01.this. I have had kids running behind me in total fascination. I don't
:08:02. > :08:07.think they have anything here that is motorised. No electric
:08:08. > :08:12.wheelchairs, no mobility scooters. The only mobility they have is maybe
:08:13. > :08:22.a walking frame or a Wiltshire. -- wheelchair. The difficulties I saw
:08:23. > :08:28.in Zaatari are very much mirrored here in Jordan's new escape, Azraq.
:08:29. > :08:33.-- newest camp. Billed simply because there is no more room in
:08:34. > :08:43.Zaatari. This place is even harder to get around because of the sheer
:08:44. > :08:46.size of it. Home to more than 20,000 refugees, but with space for five
:08:47. > :08:55.times that amount, the camp feels desert. -- does alert. In between
:08:56. > :09:02.rows upon rows of metal roofs, large ditches line the long dusty roads.
:09:03. > :09:07.Eventually we came across the only supermarket on the camp, but it took
:09:08. > :09:13.us some time. We had a van. The majority here don't have that
:09:14. > :09:21.luxury. Which is side, the coups shopping is just that little bit of
:09:22. > :09:25.normality. -- because. If you have a disability would be really difficult
:09:26. > :09:29.if not impossible. There is a car, but you have to pay for it. If you
:09:30. > :09:35.don't have money that could be very tricky. This place is the future for
:09:36. > :09:40.the many thousands stuck at the Jordanian border desperate to get
:09:41. > :09:44.in. The UNHCR says they have just about manage to provide the very
:09:45. > :09:48.basics, but they admit it is impossible to meet the needs of the
:09:49. > :09:55.hundreds of thousands of disabled refugees already living in Jordan.
:09:56. > :10:00.If we are really looking to respond in a conference of way to the needs
:10:01. > :10:05.of Syrians, this has to go a step above what is ready been done. You
:10:06. > :10:08.are not talking about millions of dollars of financial support, you
:10:09. > :10:12.are talking about billions of dollars of financial support. All in
:10:13. > :10:21.all, the services we provide in the camp are geared primarily to
:10:22. > :10:25.covering basic needs. So often these issues are quite a challenge to
:10:26. > :10:29.respond to as fully as we would like to. I'm always surprised at the
:10:30. > :10:33.resilience and drive and determination of the Syrians
:10:34. > :10:41.themselves to respond to their own needs. But this resilience is tested
:10:42. > :10:46.even further. 80% of all of the refugees in Jordan don't live in
:10:47. > :10:52.these camps. They try and survive in and around the main cities, often
:10:53. > :11:06.hidden ending poverty. -- and in poverty.
:11:07. > :11:12.After seeing the struggles disabled refugees have around two of
:11:13. > :11:17.Jordan's main camps, iron back in the van heading to the capital
:11:18. > :11:23.city. A city which has for many years been the home for the
:11:24. > :11:26.displaced. -- I'm back in the van. This area is known as the
:11:27. > :11:32.Palestinian camp and dates back decades. But more and more Syrians
:11:33. > :11:39.are living here. Why? Because it is cheap. Behind this apartment
:11:40. > :11:49.building the less it costs, which makes it impractical if you have a
:11:50. > :11:52.disability. The charity Handicap International doesn't support rivage
:11:53. > :11:59.is in the camps, they have a number of mobile teams that go to help
:12:00. > :12:03.people. We have many people have a problem in mobility. Many with
:12:04. > :12:08.spinal cord injuries, many with dramatic brain injuries. They cannot
:12:09. > :12:17.go down the stairs. You can see from here that the stairs are really
:12:18. > :12:25.crazy. They are mad, aren't they? Many of the refugees they see live
:12:26. > :12:28.in high-rise apartment blocks. This man and his brother left Syria not
:12:29. > :12:33.long after the start of the conflict. They were successful
:12:34. > :12:38.factory owners back home, so providing for their children wasn't
:12:39. > :12:42.a problem. He was a hard-working and generous man. But the pressure he
:12:43. > :12:45.was under, being forced to leave his country and the loss of his
:12:46. > :12:54.business, were all too much. His brother says this contributed to him
:12:55. > :13:00.having a stroke. The family live on the third floor. It is all they can
:13:01. > :13:08.afford. The only way he can leave his home is if his brother carries
:13:09. > :13:12.him. They have received some financial support from various
:13:13. > :13:16.charities, like paying for the initial treatment, but now what
:13:17. > :13:37.little they have goes towards paying for his ongoing medical bills.
:13:38. > :13:42.While his physical health is slowly improving, his family remained
:13:43. > :14:01.trapped in an unsuitable home with very little income.
:14:02. > :14:07.That particular area that we were in is the only area that they can live
:14:08. > :14:13.in because of the price, they don't have any money, their medical bills
:14:14. > :14:19.are huge, there's nothing... There's no other, really. They are being
:14:20. > :14:26.quite basic about it. There's just not enough money. Jordan Archer bin
:14:27. > :14:30.with a huge influx of refugees and 30% of them have disabilities or a
:14:31. > :14:36.chronic health condition. -- are dealing with. There's just a massive
:14:37. > :14:40.funding shortfall. Since 2014, serene refugees are no longer
:14:41. > :14:47.eligible for free secondary healthcare that so many with
:14:48. > :14:54.disabilities rely on. That's prosthetics or in this case the
:14:55. > :14:58.therapy and ongoing medication. There are an estimated 1.4 million
:14:59. > :15:05.refugees now living in Jordan. 25% of this country's budget is spent on
:15:06. > :15:09.them. With a huge funding shortfall from the international community, I
:15:10. > :15:14.asked the government if this meant that most vulnerable are being
:15:15. > :15:18.forgotten. We are very hospitable people, but at the end of the day
:15:19. > :15:24.there will come a time when you need to look at the interests of
:15:25. > :15:28.Jordanians vis-a-vis the interests of non- Jordanians who are living in
:15:29. > :15:35.Jordan. As a country, as the government, our priority as his
:15:36. > :15:38.Majesty has said is serving the Jordanian people.
:15:39. > :15:47.So with the government admitting it is overstretched and underfunded,
:15:48. > :15:52.how do disabled refugees get the treatment they need? Well, it is
:15:53. > :16:04.down to charities like medicine songs frontier to step in. --
:16:05. > :16:07.Medecins Sans Frontieres . This is the hospital many injured Syrians
:16:08. > :16:13.come to for that vital after-care. They've had their life-saving
:16:14. > :16:24.surgery and here is where they it in the long recovery process. -- here
:16:25. > :16:34.is where they begin. I was in my home, suddenly the wall exploded.
:16:35. > :16:44.And I find both legs injured. And they immediately brought me here.
:16:45. > :16:49.And a work appear after if you days. -- woke up here. He has been
:16:50. > :16:56.receiving intensive treatment for nearly a year now. It is hard.
:16:57. > :17:04.Sometimes exhausting, but it is getting easier every day. So I think
:17:05. > :17:09.in the next three months it will be too easy. It will be so easy! You
:17:10. > :17:17.don't even need to turn up! I will get rid of him, my physio. He's a
:17:18. > :17:22.goner! Before he was injured in the war he was a training lawyer and a
:17:23. > :17:26.pretty decent football. Here, at the hospital, he has been exercising
:17:27. > :17:35.hard. -- decent footballer. Almost every day. We have some music. You
:17:36. > :17:44.listen to music? No. I play Clash of Clans. What is that? It is again!
:17:45. > :17:49.Candy Crush?. Everyone knows that! It is entertaining.
:17:50. > :17:59.What is your aim for the future? I think go back to my home. Just that.
:18:00. > :18:06.Do you have family still? Yes, all my family in Syria. They are waiting
:18:07. > :18:16.for me. Are they? Yes. I will go back. When I start walk will go back
:18:17. > :18:23.immediately. Really? Yes. That's what keeps you going? Yes. Yes.
:18:24. > :18:32.While he sees his future back on an Syria, right now this hospital is
:18:33. > :18:36.where he needs to be. -- back home. But soon he will have to move on. So
:18:37. > :18:42.where will he go if he can't get back home? There are many disabled
:18:43. > :18:49.refugees who end up on the streets of Jordan's capital city. This
:18:50. > :18:54.centre was set up to find and take care of those people.
:18:55. > :19:01.Many of them will have arrived in Jordan without family or friends.
:19:02. > :19:22.Here they are no longer alone. A home by definition is somewhere
:19:23. > :19:26.you live with people who love you and you love them back and this is
:19:27. > :19:31.what everybody here feels. Ask, the staff, and patience. They visit
:19:32. > :19:37.hospitals and search the surrounding areas for those refugees who are at
:19:38. > :19:42.their lowest and have nowhere to go. If this place is not existing, I
:19:43. > :19:48.think you would end up alone, neglected, on a mattress on some
:19:49. > :19:55.corner in a dark, empty room. I don't want to imagine. I love it
:19:56. > :19:58.when I spend my time here. Making fun of them, they making fun of me.
:19:59. > :20:17.They love you? I love them so much. We are back on the road again.
:20:18. > :20:24.Heading for a city which is 20 kilometres from the Syrian border.
:20:25. > :20:31.It is our last day and we are off to visit another centre for disabled
:20:32. > :20:35.refugees. Unlike the last place there's no physio or specialist
:20:36. > :20:40.rehabilitation here. Instead these young men with injuries from war
:20:41. > :20:43.meet every week to talk about how they see their future as disabled
:20:44. > :20:59.refugees living in Jordan. Their lives have been changed
:21:00. > :21:04.forever, but they are resilient. They don't want sympathy. Guys,
:21:05. > :21:37.what's your message to other disabled people?
:21:38. > :21:50.One, two, three, go! Despite their situation, these young men won't be
:21:51. > :21:59.beaten. But I can't help inking about their future. And the future
:22:00. > :22:07.of those I've met. All of these people have very different stories.
:22:08. > :22:16.But they all share one thing. A total reliance on charities to
:22:17. > :22:28.survive. And with too many people and not enough money, what does
:22:29. > :22:31.their future hold? I've asked the question a lot, where do you see
:22:32. > :22:36.yourself in five years time, and many people are just... They can't
:22:37. > :22:41.really say. It is getting by every day, that's what is important.
:22:42. > :23:11.That's what they have to do and that's the only thing they can do.
:23:12. > :23:16.The bank holiday weekend is finally upon us and there will be some good
:23:17. > :23:17.opportunities for getting out and about.
:23:18. > :23:22.There is warm sunshine in the forecast.
:23:23. > :23:25.Not the full story, because there are thunderstorms