Living in the Great Refugee Camp in Iraq

They say to understand one you have to walk a mile in their shoes so that is exactly what I will do thousands of people fleeing violence in Syria crosses the border into Kurdistan of Iraq.

 I will spend a week living less than 40 miles from the Syrian border inside the largest refugee camp in Iraq, my family you're scared I'm here and I'm a little scared because this is not a thing.

That I never thought I would be in the middle and this is not something I can honestly predict how war will go in Syria started about 11 million people fled their homes in search of security ruled by those trying to cross.

In Europe but about five million people end up in refugee camps like this one dom in northern Iraq I can't believe how big it is, big I will sit next to 32,000 refugees to try and find out what life is like for the rest.

I just go in and I don't speak a language I don't know anyone no one can help me and I don't know how I will survive in this as the Syrian civil war is raging in its sixth year, millions of people continue to flee the country in search of security.

This is your correct number of camp management standards are available currently, 4,500 Syrian families are on the waiting list for this region alone most of whom live in nearby cities only.

Those who meet family members or are considered the most vulnerable are allowed to enter but I have been told they are willing to do something different in my case.

 I don't know how long some of these there come out sorry you speak English at all you do not speak English.

I will try to make this work my first night here and I need to

find a place to sleep oh man at the last minute it's nice to meet you thank you I need that one sugar please talk to you hello ok how did I survive my first night in this camp.

When did you arrive in Kurdistan today? No, for the first time in the first camp yes just look at your eyes do I need to answer some questions are we going to finish no we still have a lot.

Oh still a lot yes full address for the final exam in the UK do you have a phone number, please ask 07935 your religious background your father's name.

 When they arrive they will enter the inspection system conducted by the guards complete and for good reason, the so-called Islamic State is known for hiding terrorists in refugee camps so how many brothers and sisters.

I have two brothers and four sisters from all over the world, yes we have been given more information than I wanted in this. the process you've got my iris no.

 We all have discussed we have to put it in our system once they get everything they need you can be a legal refugee entry is hard work but I am an asylum seeker I have a certificate and this evening I am a citizen.

I will be providing shelter tonight here sure as new arrival  gave me a place to sleep for my first night is where I will stay yes and a help pack to find me

It started but from tomorrow I have to fit in I have a kerosene hob to cook in the flask to get water wow this is amazing it is proper for long care package they are like a toothbrush in here disinfectant.

All is well I think I should lower my head and stay here tonight and tomorrow find someone to stay with Dome's camp was established by the UN in April 2012.

 As a temporary shelter for a large number of Syrian refugees, but the main purpose of the mud has turned 32,000 local residents into access to clean water and sanitation to 55 miles of power lines. 5500 are two fully operational seven hospitals and schools and is growing at an average of about 500 babies born in the camp every year.

It is full of shops here I did not expect this there is a mobile shop there are restaurants and bakeries everywhere if you look.

It may be in a big place everywhere with their water tank and electricity. poles in this road, it's a road you know you have cement and concrete.

Service streets like all other cities, it looks like big lanes are full of businesses you have a tailor you have. Someone selling furniture there and all these little slippery streets is a place to stay when I think refugee camps think they will sell 55-inch plasma screens.

 When I pack I think as long as I take the gloves and hat. and it's cold by the minute sunset I'm so glad I got a place to sleep tonight and the temperatures.

At this time of year tend to drop below freezing thanks to my temporary accommodation it's technically urgent so I got my bed just overnight for the next few days all week I think I'm annoyed with myself.

 I thought the right thread you know cheese is just crusty and grimy. So as i just want to take a shower I don't think I have anything of my own out there and find someone.

 Who can let me sleep at night the camp has 10 main roads and more than 100 side roads though about 40 percent of residents.

 Who travel outside the camp to look for work one place has hundreds of small businesses from cell phone stores to restaurants, barbershops, wedding dress shops, you find newborns on the way to people going to school and being told on the street.

 They just live their normal lives as if they could do it somewhere else but people go and come you know it's not just people sitting.

 Here trapped on buses just like that they will work in nearby cities so there is a developing economy there are people developing and it amazes me, people decide this is a home that's why they build places like that.

I've been told about a place in the camp reserved for single men where I might be lucky enough to find a place to hang out tonight and be able to pick up a translator for the day.

 I hope will make my life. that little look what you have a tent-like a tuple on its sheets is a blanket or anything they can find to try to keep it dry and the outdoor toilet as if men's luggage share.

Look at that lighted lamp and break one of these to separate it into separate tents, that intellectual probably should not touch it let me see if in the morning this is your right. opportunity