UNRWA Men's Training Centre, Ramallah.
Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/ETJR/23. Lunch time at Ramallah Men's Teacher Training Centre: Near Jerusalem. The young men enjoying their lunch at the Ramallah Men's Teacher Training Centre near Jerusalem are among the luckier young Arab refugees. Through the UNRWA teacher training programme, they will soon take their place in the Middle East as qualified elementary teachers. Ramallah is one of four teacher training centres established by UNRWA to give young Arab refugees an opportunity to develop their talents and thus escape from the poverty and frustrations of camp life. The two year course at the Centre does much to help the boys gain self-reliance and enables them to contribute constructively to the future of the Middle East. Agency training is unconditional. Graduate students are free to seek employment in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states. Results to date have been excellent. Of the 585 students who graduated from the Ramallah Men's Teacher Training Centre in '65, '66 and '67, 390 are employed in Arab countries. 849
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)
1968 circa 1968-1969
still image
photographs
photograph : black-and-white ; 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Refugees--Rām Allāh. Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Rām Allāh. Refugees--Education--Rām Allāh.
Rām Allāh. Asia--Ramallah
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