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History of interdenominational and interfaith cooperation, including the work conducted by the following organizations: Religious News Service, National Council of the Churches of Christ, American and Foreign Christian Union, American Sunday School Union, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Home Missions Council of North America. Featured image: Delegates of the World's First Religious Parliament, Art Palace, Chicago, Illinois, September 21, 1893.

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Baqa'a Camp, East Jordan.
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. 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., 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
Title:
Baqa'a Camp, East Jordan.
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. 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., 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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