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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/ESJBA/6. Double shifting in prefabricated classrooms (donated by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine) at Baqa'a Emergency Camp (pop. 40,000) East Jordan.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Refugees--Education--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288040
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/ESGDB/1. Between classes at boys' school in Deir el Balah Camp (pop. 7,000), Gaza Strip. Young Arab refugees in the Gaza Strip are enthusiastic students. They and their families realize that the only hope for the future is a sound basic education, followed by some form of technical training: for the Gaza Strip suffers from a vast surplus of unskilled labour and few opportunities for employment. In Deir el Balah camp, UNRWA operates three elementary and two preparatory schools. The elementary cycle lasts six years and is followed by a preparatory of three years. Further education is obtainable at secondary schools run by Gaza authorities. Enrolment in the Deir el Balah UNRWA schools in the 1968/69 school year was 2,391 students.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Gaza Strip., Refugees--Education--Gaza Strip., Refugee camps--Gaza Strip.Geographic subjects:Gaza Strip.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288039
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Description: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.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Refugees--Education--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288038
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/ESJJE/3. Arabic writing class in the 5th elementary B. UNRWA tented school: Jerash Emergency Camp (pop. 11,000) East Jordan.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Jordan--Jarash., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan--Jarash., Refugees--Education--Jordan--Jarash., Refugee camps--Jordan--Jarash.Geographic subjects:\tJarash (Jordan)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288037
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/RJBA/25. "Water point" at UNRWA's Baqa'a near Amman, Jordan come the refugee women each morning and evening with jugs and tins to carry the water back to their shelters for drinking and household chores. An available source of water is one of the prime factors in the selection of a site for setting up a refugee camp. To date, Baqa'a emergency camp must have a water supply sufficient for 40,000 refugees. UNRWA's environmental sanitation programme is primarily concerned with the provision, in Agency administered camps, of safe and adequate water supplies, sanitary waste disposal, surface drainage and control of insect and rodent vectors of disease. In spite of the many moves of the camps since June 1967, UNRWA, always managed within a very short time to establish a safe water supply. 849.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Humanitarian assistance--Jordan., Water security--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288036
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/RGDS/2. Deir Balah refugee camp: Gaza Strip. Deir el Balah camp is the smallest of the eight refugee camps administered by UNRWA in the Gaza Strip. Approximately 7,000 Palestine refugees live in the UNRWA shelters, with an average of four to five persons to a room ten feet square. There are more than 375,000 people (265,000 are refugees) crowded into the tiny strip of land known as the Gaza Strip. The overpopulation would be critical enough if the land were fertile, but the area is largely made up of desert sand dunes and has never been independently viable. The exodus of 40,000-45,000 refugees as well as some residents of the Strip following the June 1967 hostilities has had little impact on the overcrowded conditions and opportunities for employment are even more limited than before. 869DB.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Gaza Strip., Refugee camps--Gaza Strip.Geographic subjects:Gaza Strip.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288035
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/ESJT/2. Half of the Palestine refugees are under 18 years old. Education is therefore a vital element of aid. UNRWA, in cooperation with UNESCO, offers nine years of elementary and preparatory education to all refugee children; 180,000 are now being educated in UNRWA-UNESCO schools. UNRWA also subsidizes the education of more than 50,000 refugee pupils in government or private schools. These boys at morning rollcall attend the UNRWA school in Tulkarem Camp in Jordan, which has a population of more than 8,000 refugees.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Ṭūlkarm., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Ṭūlkarm., Refugees--Education--Ṭūlkarm., Refugee camps--Ṭūlkarm.Geographic subjects:Ṭūlkarm.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288033
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/HJBA/11 Special food for underweight infants following rehydration treatment: Baqa'a Camp, East Jordan. Five month old Khaled Hussein is suffering from reverse low progressing anemia. Currently he weighs just over four kilos. Health facilities in the Baqa'a refugee camp are able to cope with his problem. Every day Khaled is left in the rehydration/nutrition clinic for several hours where he is fed special foods by a qualified nurse, given the necessary injections and checked for progress by a doctor. Khaled's mother has been both advised on home treatment and taught to prevent recurrence of the baby's sickness by a practical nurse. All personnel of the rehydration/nutrition centre in Baqa'a camp are provided by the Norwegian Save the Children Fund. The rehydration/nutrition centres were introduced in 1961 by UNRWA to take care of underweight children suffering from malnutrition or gastro-enteritis. To date seventeen centres have been established. Several additional centres are needed in the Jordanian emergency camps and will be built as soon as funds are available. 849Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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., Hussein, Khaled.Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Medical assistance--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan., Refugee children--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288032
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Title:Description: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.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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., Duhayshah (Refugee camp)Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Humanitarian assistance--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan., Refugee children--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288030
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/ESLA/5A. Nabatieh Camp School near Sidon, Lebanon. At UNRWA's school in Nabatieh refugee camp, as in all of the 425 UNRWA-UNESCO schools, the curriculum of the host countries is followed, in order that the pupils may later sit for the state examinations. UNRWA places great emphasis on education for young refugees, and devotes some 40 per cent of its funds to educations and vocational training. There are presently more than 170,000 refugee children enrolled in UNRWA schools and another 60,000 who attend government or private schools with aid from UNRWA. 976.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Lebanon--Nabaṭīyat al-Taḥta., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Lebanon--Nabaṭīyat al-Taḥta., Refugees--Education--Lebanon--Nabaṭīyat al-Taḥta., Refugee camps--Lebanon--Nabaṭīyat al-Taḥta.Geographic subjects:Nabaṭīyat al-Taḥta (Lebanon)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288028
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/ESJGN/4. Education under canvas in emergency refugee camps in East Jordan. It was in large tents like this, rushed in for the emergency, that UNRWA was able to keep education going for the refugee children involved in the exodus of June 1967. Today they are still in use as classrooms in the emergency camps of East Jordan and in Syria. Some 25 per cent of the 270,000 newly-displaced persons (after June, 1967) from West Jordan are children of school age: the only way their education can go uninterrupted is through an extensive programme of "double shifting" in existing school buildings in east Jordan, together with the use of large marquee tents. Tented classrooms are, however, gradually being replaced in the emergency camps by prefabricated classrooms. 769DB.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Refugees--Education--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288027
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/HJBA/13 Diakonishes Werk prefabricated clinic: Baqa'a Camp, East Jordan. A number of prefabricated buildings donated by the German voluntary agency, Diakonishes Werk, have been erected in emergency tented camps for Arab refugees in east Jordan. They are being used as clinics and schools. This picture shows the UNRWA clinic in Baqa'a Camp near Amman, Jordan, occupying one of the new German prefabs. 849.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Humanitarian assistance--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288024
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/ESLJB/1. UNRWA/UNESCO primary school children: UNRWA's Jisr el Bacha Refugee Camp (pop. 1,230): near Beirut Lebanon. 989 Credit UNRWA photo by: Kay Brennan.Creator:Brennan, Kay. (photographer), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Lebanon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Lebanon., Refugees--Education--Lebanon., Refugee camps--Lebanon.Geographic subjects:Lebanon.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288023
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/ETJA/1. Temporary Women's Training Centre, Amman. Financed by NEED (Near East Emergency Donations) UNRWA opened, in Amman, Jordan, a new centre to provide vocational and teacher training for young Palestine refugee women. Since the hostilities of June 1967 these girls, all of whose families are living in East Jordan, no longer have access to the Women's Training Centre in Ramallah, which is on the West Bank. This building, which has been rented, will eventually be replaced by a permanent centre. 7127.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Refugees--Education--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288022
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/HJBA/14. Infant feeding advice for mothers of Baqa'a refugee camp: East Jordan. Special attention is devoted to refugee children in the UNRWA camps during the first two years of their lives. Norwegian staff nurse GulDvik Petterson explains the importance of wise feeding to mothers at the rehydration/nutrition clinic in the Baqa'a refugee camp. Miss Petterson is part of a medical team provided for the maternal and child health clinic at Baqa'a Camp by the Norwegian Save the Children Fund. Rehydration centres were introduced by UNRWA in 1961 to combat the greatest single cause of death among refugee infants, gastro-enteritis and related ailments. Part of the treatment includes the menu demonstrated by the staff nurse, as well as demonstrations and lectures which are designed to help the mothers treat the disease at home and prevent its recurrence. 849.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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., Petterson, GulDvik.Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Humanitarian assistance--Jordan., Nurses--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan., Refugee children--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288020
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T'HJBA/12. Health Education at Baqa'a Rehydration/Nutrition Centre. These little children were born in an UNRWA emergency refugee camp. Their only home has been a tent which is scant protection against the cold winters and exceptionally dry summers in east Jordan. To keep their infants healthy, mothers attend lectures and demonstrators at UNRWA clinic like this one in the Baqa'a refugee camp. Staff nurse, GulDvik Petterson (right), a member of a medical team provided by the Norwegian Save the Children Fund, explains to the mothers how they can treat illnesses of the children at home and prevent recurrence. 849Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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., Petterson, GulDvik.Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Medical assistance--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan., Refugee children--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288019
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/ESLN/13. Education for Young Refugees. Recess at UNRWA's school in Nahr el Bared refugee camp near Tripoli, Lebanon. Since the Palestinians became refugees, the possibility of finding employment, a chance to become self-supporting. Enrolment in UNRWA/UNESCO schools has increased every year since the Agency began operating its own schools in 1951. At that time there were some 43,000 pupils. now there are more than 195,000 refugee children in UNRWA/UNESCO schools and 60,000 more attend private or government schools, most of them with grants from UNRWA. -17.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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., Nahr al-Bārid (Refugee camp)Topics:Refugees--Lebanon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Lebanon., Refugees--Education--Lebanon., Refugee camps--Lebanon.Geographic subjects:Lebanon.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288018
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/ESJBA/8. English class in a prefabricated classroom: Baqa'a Emergency Camp, East Jordan. 9170 Credit: UNRWA Photo by George Nehmeh.Creator:Nehmeh, George. (photographer), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Refugees--Education--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288015
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/ESJJE/4. Arabic writing class in the 5th elementary B. UNRWA tented school: Jerash Emergency Camp (pop. 11,000) East Jordan.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Jordan--Jarash., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan--Jarash., Refugees--Education--Jordan--Jarash., Refugee camps--Jordan--Jarash.Geographic subjects:\tJarash (Jordan)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288013
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/ESJNA/3. New Amman Camp Girls' School, East Jordan. These little refugee girls play, happily, in the playground of their new school in UNRWA's New Amman refugee camp. The school, which was finished in time for the new school year, in September 1968, was built, with funds donated by NEED (Near East Emergency Donations), to help ease the burden of over-crowding which resulted from the flight of thousands of refugees from the West Bank to east Jordan following the June 1967 hostilities in the Middle East. The new school buildings accommodated more than 3,200 schoolgirls, who attend in two "shifts" daily. 8118.Creator:United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)Subject names: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.Topics:Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Refugees--Education--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288012
