BEGINNINGS

A young mother crosses the border from Syria and becomes a refugee. In her arms she carries her one month old son Hamid. "Since he was born there has been non-stop bombing every day." ©UNHCR

A doctor provides antenatal care at the UNFPA Women Centre. © Ra'ed Addayleh/UNFPA Jordan

A family waits to be registered. The new Khalda registration center in Amman, which opened in the summer of 2013,can process up to 3,000 refugees daily, triple the capacity of the previous center. ©UNHCR

A nurse provides a checkup for a six-month-old baby at a clinic in the northern Jordanian city of Ramtha. ©Ned Colt/IRC

Syrian schoolchildren in the three schools at Zaatari camp receive school uniforms/training suites from International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) and UNOCHA, October 2013. ©IOCC

8,000 Syrian children participated in catch-up classes in summer 2013 to prepare them to enroll in school in the fall. ©UNICEF

IOM and the Jordanian border guards help transport newly-arrived Syrians 24 hours per day. ©IOM

Two Syrian students eagerly raise their hands in class. UNICEF and its partners are working to ensure that young Syrians do not miss out on education. ©Noorani/UNICEF

Imad, 5, smiles for the camera as he and his family wait for their registration appointment at a registration center in Amman's Khalda district in August 2013. ©UNHCR/Jared Kohler

Reem, an 8-year-old girl wounded during a bombardment in Syria, is doing reeducation exercises in the rehabilitation center of Handicap International in Zaatari, after receiving an orthopedic shoe to compensate the loss of more than 2 cm of her left leg. © G. Dubourthoumieu/Handicap International