A student reads at a school located in the Dekwaneh refugee camp.
Palestine 215 The refugee problem is largely a problem of youth, for the total of 860,000 refugees more than half are below sixteen years old. At this school a lesson in Arabic is going on. This school in the Dekwani [Dekwaneh] camp in Lebanon has 155 pupils who need books, stationery, and blackboards.
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
1950 ca. 1950
still image
photographs
photograph : black-and-white ; 5 x 7 inches
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Church work with refugees. Refugees--Palestine. Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut. Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Beirut (Lebanon) Asia--Lebanon--Beyrouth--Beirut
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