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Text transcribed from caption: Miss Sarah Goodwin and the Rev. Robt. Sandman of the Migrant Ministry staff Texas Council of Churches look over a part of a 120-doll shipment received from United Church Women of Wichita Falls. These dolls become a part of the interesting equipment of the "Harvester" station wagon. Credit: Texas Migrant Ministry collection, 1952-1980 and undated, Austin Seminary Archives, Wright Learning and Information Center, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Creator:
Studtman Photo Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Texas Council of Churches., Goodwin, Sarah., Sandman, Robert.
Topics:
Migrant labor--Texas., Church work with migrant labor--Texas., Home missions--Texas.
Geographic subjects:
Texas.
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https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:294114
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Text transcribed from caption: P-20060. DR. BLAKE IN ALASKA. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, President of the National Council of Churches, is fitted with arctic gear at Elmendorf Air Force Base here during his Christmas visit to American servicemen and chaplains of the Alaskan command. Assisting him is Chaplain (Col.) Martin C. Foch of the Alaskan Command. Dr. Blake made the journey as spiritual ambassador of the National Council's 30 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox Communions and their 144,000 local churches. The visit marks the third consecutive year that he has spent the Christmas holidays with the men in the armed forces. CREDIT MUST READ: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-12C-56-NAB-P)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Foch, Martin C., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Elmendorf Air Force Base (Alaska)
Topics:
Christmas., Interdenominational cooperation., Military chaplains--Alaska--Anchorage.
Geographic subjects:
Anchorage (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288246
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/EVJR/100. The first year dressmaking class at UNRWA'a Women's Training Centre, Ramallah, West Bank: December 1968. Twenty-eight Palestine Arab refugee girls from the West Bank and Gaza are starting their studies to become professional dressmakers at the UNRWA Ramallah Vocational Training Centre for Women. The dressmaking course takes three years. 8128.
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--Rām Allāh., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Rām Allāh., Refugees--Education--Rām Allāh.
Geographic subjects:
Rām Allāh.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288034
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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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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
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Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/ETJR/24. Recreation at Ramallah Men's Teacher Training Centre: near Jerusalem. Recreation is an integral part of the Ramallah Men's Teachers Training Centre. Ramallah Centre, like all UNRWA vocational training centres is residential and provides a programme designed to give its students the opportunity for all-round development. The majority of the students were either born in or spent much of their lives in refugee camps. As a result, they have not had the time to develop work habits or discipline and were unsuited for almost any sort of employment. The two year course at the UNRWA Teacher Training Centre does much to help the boys gain self-reliance and enables them to contribute constructively to the future of the Middle East. The capacity of the school in 400 with 200 new students accepted each year. In all UNRWA has established four teacher training centres with a total enrollment of nearly 1,500. Curricula follows closely that of the government centres in their respective countries. Courses include academic lessons, instruction in teaching methods and period of practice teaching in nearby schools. Agency training is unconditional. Graduate students are free to seek employment in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states. Results to date have been excellent. Of the 585 students who graduated from the Ramallah centre in '65, '66 and '67, 390 are employed in Arab countries, 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--Rām Allāh., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Rām Allāh., Refugees--Education--Rām Allāh.
Geographic subjects:
Rām Allāh.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288031
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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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Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/EVJR/108. English class at the UNRWA Ramallah Women's Training Centre: near Jerusalem, West Bank of 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--Rām Allāh., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Rām Allāh., Refugees--Education--Rām Allāh.
Geographic subjects:
Rām Allāh.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288029
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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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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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Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/ETJR/23. Lunch time at Ramallah Men's Teacher Training Centre: Near Jerusalem. The young men enjoying their lunch at the Ramallah Men's Teacher Training Centre near Jerusalem are among the luckier young Arab refugees. Through the UNRWA teacher training programme, they will soon take their place in the Middle East as qualified elementary teachers. Ramallah is one of four teacher training centres established by UNRWA to give young Arab refugees an opportunity to develop their talents and thus escape from the poverty and frustrations of camp life. The two year course at the Centre does much to help the boys gain self-reliance and enables them to contribute constructively to the future of the Middle East. Agency training is unconditional. Graduate students are free to seek employment in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states. Results to date have been excellent. Of the 585 students who graduated from the Ramallah Men's Teacher Training Centre in '65, '66 and '67, 390 are employed in Arab countries. 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--Rām Allāh., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Rām Allāh., Refugees--Education--Rām Allāh.
Geographic subjects:
Rām Allāh.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288026
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Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/EVJR/105. Elizabeth Yacoub Jaber, student in the business education course at the UNRWA Women's Training Centre, Ramallah, near Jerusalem, West Bank of Jordan. (Capacity 640.)
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., Jaber, Elizabeth Yacoub.
Topics:
Refugees--Rām Allāh., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Rām Allāh., Refugees--Education--Rām Allāh.
Geographic subjects:
Rām Allāh.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288025
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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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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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