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
