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Last year we brought you the extraordinary story of the Indian inventor who came up with a simple machine that women can use to make and sell sanitary pads. For thousands of them it's a life-changing device. The story got a huge reaction and one person it inspired was a Yoga teacher from the UK called Amy Peake. She decided she wanted to take the machines into refugee camps. Some people thought she was crazy - why would anyone want to start a sanitary pad factory in a refugee camp? But she didn't give up and last month she travelled to the Zaatari camp in Jordan, where 80,000 Syrian refugees live. Every month they receive UN food vouchers worth 20 Jordanian dinar, less than $30. Sometimes they also get sanitary pads, but there're never enough. So Amy set out to help. Our reporter Dale Gavlak joined her.
We're walking down Zaatari camp's high street and Syrians have a great sense of humour and so that's why they have called this crowded market area the Champs-Élysées, named after the famed Parisian place. And, I mean, you can't imagine the incredible things that they're selling. It's anything from fruit to bicycles, to chickens, to bread. I mean you can find everything on this street. There're about 3,000 shops, which is quite incredible. Now when I first came to Zaatari camp it was the very first day that it opened, and at 2 am was when the first group of Syrians arrived on buses. I'll never forget the shocked look on everyone's faces as to "where have we come?". It was frightening for people. Now it's very different. Despite the fact that the Syrians really have created an incredible market with so many different things that you can buy, there are still gaps. And one of those is sanitary pads and incontinence pads. | 
发表于 2016-12-23 22:39:41