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Title: Arab woman with two children.
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 Name(s): World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Date Created: 1952, March 1952
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topical Subject(s): Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Tyre., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects: Tyre (Lebanon), Asia--Lebanon--Liban-Sud--Tyre
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 07-0416c, Box 6; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Division of International Mission Records 1910s-1980s.
Identifier (local): ds5531
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:83394

Title: Mother and baby.
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 Name(s): World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Date Created: 1952, March 1952
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topical Subject(s): Church work with refugees., Refugees, Palestinian Arab., Refugees--Lebanon--Tyre., Refugees--Palestine.
Geographic subjects: Tyre (Lebanon), Asia--Lebanon--Liban-Sud--Tyre
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 07-0416c, Box 6; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Division of International Mission Records, 1910s-1980s.
Identifier (local): ds5530
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:83452

Title: Woman in refugee camp washing clothing.
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 Name(s): World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Date Created: 1951, March 1951
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topical Subject(s): Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects: Sidon (Lebanon), Asia--Lebanon--Liban-Sud--Sidon
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 07-0416c, Box 6; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Division of International Mission Records 1910s-1980s.
Identifier (local): ds5532
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:83388

Title: A woman repairs a pair of pants.
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 Name(s): World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Date Created: 1951, March 1951
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topical Subject(s): Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects: Sidon (Lebanon), Asia--Lebanon--Liban-Sud--Sidon
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 07-0416c, Box 6; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Division of International Mission Records 1910s-1980s.
Identifier (local): ds5533
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:83433

Title: Presbyterian run refugee camp in Lebanon.
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 Name(s): World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Date Created: 1951, March 1951
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topical Subject(s): Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Sidon., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects: Sidon (Lebanon), Asia--Lebanon--Liban-Sud--Sidon
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 07-0416c, Box 6; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Division of International Mission Records 1910s-1980s.
Identifier (local): ds5536
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:83432

Title: A kindergarten class at the Dekwaneh refugee camp.
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 Name(s): World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Date Created: 1951, ca. 1951
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topical Subject(s): Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects: Beirut (Lebanon), Asia--Lebanon--Beyrouth--Beirut
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 07-0416c, Box 6; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Division of International Mission Records 1910s-1980s.
Identifier (local): ds5552
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:83417

Title: A student reads at a school located in the Dekwaneh refugee camp.
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 Name(s): World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Date Created: 1950, ca. 1950
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topical Subject(s): Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects: Beirut (Lebanon), Asia--Lebanon--Beyrouth--Beirut
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 07-0416c, Box 6; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Division of International Mission Records 1910s-1980s.
Identifier (local): ds5550
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:83414

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