Simone Giertz, the "queen of shitty robots" (previously at Neatorama), went to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan to meet Mohammad Waheed Hussein Asaf, who makes toys for the children of the camp. The aim was to collaborate in making a working helicopter for the children. Their time together is a contrast of old and young, Eastern and Western, man and woman, from different parts of the world who don't have a language in common.
"He thinks I'm incompetent, and I think he's a stubborn old man."
There had to be a translator there, but the editing of this video is so exquisite that you don't even realize it. Can they come together to build a helicopter from the materials available? That seems to be almost beside the point, as the real story here is the partnership of two makers.
The video is a project of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to celebrate World Refugee Day on June 20. The UNHCR's mini-documentary series called We Are Here has four episodes available on YouTube. -via Metafilter