Emergency Refugee Camps in East Jordan.
Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/ESJGN/5. Education under canvas in new refugee camps in East Jordan. Emergency tented schools are the only schools available for many new refugee children in East Jordan. Some 25% of the 270,000 newly-displaced persons from West Jordan are children of school age: The only way their education can be continued is through an extensive programme of "double-shifting" in existing school buildings in East Jordan, together with the use of large marquee tents such as these. Tented schools are in operation in six new emergency camps in the hills near Amman, Jerash and Irbid. 768.
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)
1967 circa 1967-1969
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photographs
photograph : black-and-white ; 7 x 8 1/4 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--Jordan. Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan. Refugees--Education--Jordan. Refugee camps--Jordan.
Jordan. Asia--Jordan
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