(CNN) -- Last month at Zaatari, the second-largest refugee camp in the world, I met an accountant who carried his 6-day-old baby across the Jordanian border from Syria, and a mother who cannot find her 20-year-old son -- and knows all too well what has likely happened to him. I saw parents too frightened to let their children out of their sight, even to go to school. And while visiting Syrian refugees recovering in a hospital in Amman, Jordan from some of the violence that perhaps foreshadowed the August 21 chemical attacks on Syrian citizens, I spoke with a woman whose daughter died in her arms. These refugees' stories, interspersed with images of white-shrouded children lying dead -- poisoned in the Damascus suburbs -- have stayed fresh in my mind.
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Megan Bradley met traumatized, fearful Syrian refugees at a camp and hospital in Jordan
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She says neighbor countries' hugely generous to shelter them; global community must help
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She says it's crucial to keep borders open for fleeing Syrians and to keep kids in school
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Bradely: Helping displaced still in Syria very hard; opposition needs help to provide social aid
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