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Title:Description:National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA 1996-1997 Report on the Burned Churches Project.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (creator)Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Jones, Mac Charles, 1950-1997.Topics:African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hate crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179102
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Title: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. 849Creator: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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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/ESJBA/8. English class in a prefabricated classroom: Baqa'a Emergency Camp, East Jordan. 9170 Credit: UNRWA Photo by George Nehmeh.Creator:Nehmeh, George. (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--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Jordan., Refugees--Education--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288015
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Title: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. 849Creator: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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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/T/HJBA/14. Infant feeding advice for mothers of Baqa'a refugee camp: East Jordan. Special attention is devoted to refugee children in the UNRWA camps during the first two years of their lives. Norwegian staff nurse GulDvik Petterson explains the importance of wise feeding to mothers at the rehydration/nutrition clinic in the Baqa'a refugee camp. Miss Petterson is part of a medical team provided for the maternal and child health clinic at Baqa'a Camp by the Norwegian Save the Children Fund. Rehydration centres were introduced by UNRWA in 1961 to combat the greatest single cause of death among refugee infants, gastro-enteritis and related ailments. Part of the treatment includes the menu demonstrated by the staff nurse, as well as demonstrations and lectures which are designed to help the mothers treat the disease at home and prevent its 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., Humanitarian assistance--Jordan., Nurses--Jordan., Refugee camps--Jordan., Refugee children--Jordan.Geographic subjects:Jordan.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288020
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Title:Description: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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Title:Description: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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Title:Description:A publication of the National Coalition for Burned Churches and Community Empowerment. Volume 1, number 1, July 1998.Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Coalition for Burned Churches and Community Empowerment.Topics:African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hate crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179135
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Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service.Topics:Church work with disaster victims--Haiti., Disaster relief--Haiti.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179442
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Description:Community rebuilding a church in Birmingham, Alabama, after it was burned by white supremacists.Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives.Topics:African Americans--Crimes against--Alabama--Birmingham., Arson--Alabama--Birmingham., Hate crimes--Alabama--Birmingham., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--Alabama--Birmingham., Church buildings--Reconstruction.Geographic subjects:Birmingham (Ala.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179068
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Description:Community rebuilding a church in Birmingham, Alabama, after it was burned by white supremacists.Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives.Topics:African Americans--Crimes against--Alabama--Birmingham., Arson--Alabama--Birmingham., Hate crimes--Alabama--Birmingham., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--Alabama--Birmingham., Church buildings--Reconstruction.Geographic subjects:Birmingham (Ala.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179069
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Description:Community rebuilding a church in Birmingham, Alabama, after it was burned by white supremacists.Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives.Topics:African Americans--Crimes against--Alabama--Birmingham., Arson--Alabama--Birmingham., Hate crimes--Alabama--Birmingham., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--Alabama--Birmingham., Church buildings--Reconstruction.Geographic subjects:Birmingham (Ala.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179070
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Description:Community rebuilding a church in Birmingham, Alabama, after it was burned by white supremacists.Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives.Topics:African Americans--Crimes against--Alabama--Birmingham., Arson--Alabama--Birmingham., Hate crimes--Alabama--Birmingham., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--Alabama--Birmingham., Church buildings--Reconstruction.Geographic subjects:Birmingham (Ala.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179071
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Description: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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Description: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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Title: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
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Description:Program for the Emergency Conference on Racism in Columbia, South Carolina, October 24-26, 1996.Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Emergency Conference on Racism (1996 : Columbia, S.C.), Center for Democratic Renewal., Center for Constitutional Rights (New York, N.Y.), South Carolina Local Organizing Committee.Topics:African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hate crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.Geographic subjects:Columbia (S.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179081
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Description:Emergency Conference on Racism press release, brochure, and letter addressed to conference participants written by Rev. Dr. Mac Charles Jones.Creator:Jones, Mac Charles, 1950-1997. (author)Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Emergency Conference on Racism (1996 : Columbia, S.C.), Center for Democratic Renewal., Center for Constitutional Rights (New York, N.Y.), South Carolina Local Organizing Committee.Topics:African Americans--Crimes against--United States--20th century., Arson--United States--20th century., Hate crimes--United States--20th century., African American churches--Fires and fire prevention--United States--20th century.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179072
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Description: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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Description: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
