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Audio of Board of World Missions meeting, April 15, 1970, with Black Presbyterian Leadership Conference representatives in attendance.
Subject names:
National Black Presbyterian Caucus., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:138684
Description:
No. 1532, Tyre, Lebanon, March 1952. Too little, too late! The tiny Arab refugee baby, shown here in his mother's arms, is now dead. When discovered by Christian welfare workers, he was already a living skeleton, his tiny body wasted from the ravages of malnutrition. Though emergency food of high nutritive quality was immediately supplied the child was already too weak to respond. There are many Arab children like these among Palestinian refugees, and it is only occasionally that Christian relief can save them, this mother, clad in Western church-contributed clothing, is now heartbroken, because the little one which had become so dear to her, especially under the care she had so desperately rendered with little means, is now gone from her miserable life. (WCC photo)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees, Palestinian Arab., Refugees--Lebanon--Tyre., Refugees--Palestine.
Geographic subjects:
Tyre (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83452
Description:
Palestine 136 Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Just before their milk, the boys have to take a spoonful of Cod Liver Oil.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Gaza Strip., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83442
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Salt Hospital, Jordan. This hospital which has 65 surgical and maternity beds is the only one which is purely devoted to the needs of the 450,000 refugees in Jordan, although by arrangements with local hospitals some 860 beds can be used. Salt Hospital is staffed entirely by Palestinian doctors, nurses, and orderlies. This picture shows a small patient who seems to be thanking the churches and the United Nations for their care.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Jordan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83437
Description:
Gaza. Fatmeh Hamadeh from Gaza. Widow, has 5 children; 4 of them are twins of 5 and 7 years. Husband died 3 years ago as a result of an air raid in Gaza. They live in a room made of mud and covered with rags. No other source of income except the rations they draw from UNRWA. The children's daily food consists of bread and salt. Issued with flour, clothing, blankets and shoes. [WCC photo]
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Gaza Strip.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83435
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. In addition to their ordinary rations, undernourished children receive a hot meal a day in UNRWA's supplementary feeding centres.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83434
Description:
March 1951. No. 1387 (UNRWA 1015). Ain Helweh [Ain al-Hilweh] camp in Lebanon near Saida [Sidon]. There are 7676 persons living in this camp, 1418 families who all live in tents. This picture shows a mother repairing her little boy's clothes. It can be seen from the washing drying on the stones how ragged these clothes are.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Sidon (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83433
Description:
March 1951. No. 1371 (UNRWA 1017). Mia Mia [Miye ou Miye] camp near Saida [Sidon] in Lebanon. This camp is a property belonging to the Presbyterian USA. 1400 refugees in this camp live in tents and the remainder of the total population of 3180 live in barracks. This picture shows a barrack room divided by sacking into several compartments in order to give a semblance of privacy to the families living here. Washing lines and cooking utensils are hanging round the walls.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Sidon (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83432
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. In addition to their normal rations, refugees who are suffering from under-nourishment receive a hot mid-day meal, which is prepared in accordance with modern dietary principles at UNRWA's supplementary feeding centers. The majority of the recipients are children, but the old and sick also benefit. At present, 26,888 free meals are served monthly at a cost of 24,199.20 dollars. (1$ = 3.50 Lebanese pounds approx.)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83427
Description:
Palestine 120 Jafar camp Amman. This shows tents put up by refugees in one section of Amman, capital of Jordan. It is not an UNRWA camp and both government and the agency have been waiting to transfer the inmates to a better site with proper sanitation facilities. But as the people have found work in the town and cannot afford to pay the high rents required for accommodation they are resisting proposals to transfer them. Amman has more than trebled [sic] its population in 2 years as a result of the influx of Arab refugees from Palestine, who now form over 40% of the population of Jordan (including Arab Palestine). Some refugee children are seen in the foreground.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Jordan--Amman., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Amman (Jordan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83424
Description:
Palestine 214. The refugee problem is largely a problem of youth, for the total of 868,000 refugees, more than half are below sixteen years old. Furthermore, with the high birth rate of 40.8 per thousand, some 36,000 refugee babies were born last year. This picture shows the kindergarten at Dekwani camp, Lebanon, where, although there is no backyard, and no blackboard, few books, and the children sit barefoot on the floor, there is a keen attendance.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83417
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. In addition to their ordinary rations, undernourished children receive a hot meal a day in UNRWA's supplementary feeding centers.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83415
Description:
Palestine 215 The refugee problem is largely a problem of youth, for the total of 860,000 refugees more than half are below sixteen years old. At this school a lesson in Arabic is going on. This school in the Dekwani [Dekwaneh] camp in Lebanon has 155 pupils who need books, stationery, and blackboards.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83414
Description:
Among the 750,000 Arab refugees are many children like those in this camp.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83411
Description:
Two Arab refugee children watch their mother weave a basket to carry food. The little girl wears a dress made from materials contributed by Christian churches. Note bare feet and dirt floor of the tent. 850,000 homeless Arabs who formerly lived in Israel are now living under conditions like these in miserable tent camps scattered from Egypt to the Lebanon. (World Copyright fee paid by World Council of Churches to cover use in church periodicals only.)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83406
Description:
1951. No. 1376 (UNRWA 1005) Israel. Unhygenic water supply for refugee children in Jordan.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Jordan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83400
Description:
No. 1531. Tyre, Lebanon, March 1952. To Christian refugee workers in Tyre this Arab woman is known as the "Thankful woman." She appears frequently at the office door, with one, two, or three children in her arms or hanging to her skirt, seeking aid. Whatever she received food or clothing, or if nothing but sympathy for her miserable condition, she is always profusely thankful. The woman lives with her family in a water tower, has been robbed by night, nearly devoured by insects, and suffers from the perennial need of all Arab refugees hunger and lack of clothing. (WCC photo)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Tyre., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Tyre (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83394
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency no. 13518. In most of the camps and in towns where there are concentration of refugees, UNRAW maintain Infant Health Welfare Centres. Here mothers may come for pre-natal care, to learn mother-craft and bring their children to attend the special clinics up to the age of two. Each centre has its own kitchens which serve milk and a daily cooked meal to all babies under two years old. Visited at first with some reticence, the centres have become immensely popular with refugees mothers and today have an average of 21,000 visits per month.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83391
Description:
1951. No. 1374 (UNRWA 1009). Rafah camp, Gaza. The camp has a school where 1796 boys and girls receive education. This picture shows a refugee family having a bath. 2 litres of water for three children. Note the characteristic physical condition of the child on the mother's knee due to under-nourishment.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Gaza Strip., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83389
Description:
March 1951. No. 1379 (UNRWA 1036). Ain Helweh [Ain al-Hilweh] camp near Saida [Sidon] in Lebanon. There are 7676 persons living in this camp, 1418 families who all live in tents. This picture shows a bit of the camp. The woman in the foreground is washing the ragged, patched trousers of the boy standing near her is a clear indication of their poverty.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Sidon (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83388

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