Text transcribed from caption: Jordan 316 (PAL:REF:CHL) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). UN 74979 Jordan, 1961. UNRWA, whose purpose is to provide relief for Palestine Refugees and to assist them to become self-supporting, began operations in May 1950. It is a temporary, non-political organ of the United Nations General Assembly, with a mandate currently extending to 30 June 1963. one of the largest of all United Nations Agencies, UNRWA employs more than 10,000 persons, almost all of them Palestine refugees. Its headquarters are in Beirut, Lebanon, and its operations cover an era of 100,000 square miles. Refugee children receiving a supplementary meal at the Dheisheh camp, near Bethlehem, Jordan. In Jordan alone more than 20,000 children were registered for supplementary feeding between 1959 and 1960. Please credit: United Nations.
