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