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