Prince Charles visits camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan 13 March 2013 Last updated at 09:43 Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are visiting a refugee camp in Jordan which is home to people fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Syria. The couple are at the King Abdullah camp, as part of their three-day tour of the Middle East. They were greeted by UN staff at the camp which is home to 1,500 people. More than a million Syrians have now been registered by the UN as refugees in countries including Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. Prince Charles and the duchess visited a craft skills training centre for women and children, and went to a nursery where 20 children sang songs to them. This is the couple's second day in Jordan. Later they will visit a historic Jordanian Roman city and then leave for Qatar followed by Saudi Arabia and Oman. Irreparably damage The King Abdullah camp, near Jordan's northern border with Syria, is one of the smaller camps in the country. It is run by the UN, Unicef and Save the Children. The BBC's Wyre Davis, who is at the camp, said thousands of people were crossing the border into Jordan every night and half of them were thought to be children. Several families are crowded into one portable home but at least they have access to education and food in Jordan, he said. The prince and his wife spoke to an academic who had fled the conflict with his young family, he added. Middle East analyst Nabila Ramdani told the BBC the presence of Prince Charles at the camp would raise the issue to the top of the news agenda. In addition to highlighting the "enormous refugee crisis," the visit also had a political message, she said. The visit is also aimed at boosting the co-operation between the two countries, especially with Britain's growing involvement in the Syrian conflict. It comes in the wake of the prime minister's approval to provide Syrian rebels with armed vehicles and body armour, along with what been described as non-lethal equipment. The royal couple's visit comes as Save the Children warns that some two million children are in need of help in Syria. Their report says increasing numbers are being recruited as guards, informers, fighters and, in some cases, human shields, for both sides involved in the conflict. Save the Children's chief executive, Justin Forsyth, said the royal couple's visit would help publicise the plight of the refugees. There are still two million children inside Syria. If action is not taken soon to bring this conflict to an end, the physical and mental harm done to them could irreparably damage a generation of children," he said. Earlier this month, Jordan's King Abdullah called on world nations to help his country, Turkey and Lebanon to shoulder "the tremendous burden" of caring for the huge influx of people. The conflict has left more than 70,000 people dead and two million internally displaced, of a pre-conflict population of 20.7 million.