Refugee Open Ware To Create MakerSpaces, FaLabs in Refugee Campes

Refugee Open Ware (ROW) is a Jordanian startup hoping the principles of makerspaces can help alleviate the strain and improve conditions in refugee camps all over the world. They hope to give refugees valuable skills that they can take home with them when they are eventually able to return home and apply to rebuilding their communities. The concept is to bring popup FabLabs to active war and refugee zones and teach locals to ‘hack’ what supplies and materials they have on hand and turn them into the materials and tools that they need. The 500-square-meter Innovation Center called FabLab Amman has already opened, and the ROW founders are currently opening two more locations, and attempting to open a third inside of the Zaatari refugee camp, currently host to more than 80,000 refugees. You can read more about ROW over on 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/115908/refugee-open-ware-makerspace/
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