17
Oct
Creating a Camp
Seventh grade students in Jerusalem, Israel were given a task similar to the one we thought about last meeting. They were asked by FAST, The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory: Israel/Palestine, to design a refugee camp according to UN regulations. They asked the students to think about what it would take to create a camp that would last for a hundred years. The point of the exercise was to show the lack of sustainability of these camps in addressing the long-term needs of the displaced individuals.
Find out what it takes to actually design a refugee camp according to UN regulations at:
http://www.seamless-israel.org/Design_a_Refugee_Camp_files/Design.camp.y2.pdf