Korean trainers are teaching taekwondo to children at Zaatari refugee camp near Mafraw, Jordan. “Taekwondo is amazing,” says one kid.
Children at the world's second largest refugee camp in Jordan are learning taekwondo. Their trainers say it inspires discipline and self-respect in those traumatized by war in their home country.
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Charles Lee, a Korean taekwondo master, founded the program last month with the aid of U.N. relief agencies.
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"I have seen a lot of anger inside the hearts of the kids here," said Lee, "I want them to be peaceful and to help their neighbors."
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One million Syrian refugees are now children. Only about a sixth of the 65,000 children at the Zaatari refugee camp attend the U.N.-run schools.
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