Statement from the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on Alec Collett    -    UNRWA signs an agreement with Welfare Association and Cayan company to reconstruct the first school in Nahr el Bared camp    -    Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General at the Hosts and Donors Meeting    -    New Emergency Appeal Progress Report (July - December 2008)    -    What a Drama! UK funds drama workshop for young Palestine refugees in Lebanon    -    Inauguration of Zarqa Girls School Address by Filippo Grandi, UNRWA Deputy Commissioner-General    -    Commissioner-General’s Opening Statement at the Advisory Commission Meeting

 
UNRWA signs an agreement with Welfare Association and Cayan company to reconstruct the first school in Nahr el Bared camp

The Welfare Association today signed a memorandum of understanding with UNRWA and the Cayan company for Investment and Real Estate Development to helpd the reconstruction of a school in Nahr el-Bared camp, in northern Lebanon. Under the agreement, Cayan will contribute USD1.6 million towards the project, with the Welfare Association managing funds. UNRWA will provide the necessary land. ...more

 
What a Drama!
UK funds drama workshop for young Palestine refugees in Lebanon


photo credit: Ibrahim Hewitt

The acclaimed British actor David Morrissey (of Sense and Sensibility, State of Play and The Deal fame) directed a week-long series of drama workshops in UNRWA’s schools in Beirut for 65 students from Palestine refugee camps all over Lebanon. ...more

 
EU contributes to school rebuilding in Lebanon

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the EU today (12 November 2009) inaugurated the Deir Qasi preparatory school in Mieh Mieh, in the Saida area of Lebanon. ...more

 
‘Normal Life’, Courtesy of UNRWA and the EU


 

Raghda Tarayreh, 35, lives in Bani Na’im village in Hebron with her two children. Her husband has been in Beersheba prison, Israel, for 3 years and has another 3.5 yrs until his release. ...more

 

UNRWA provides assistance, protection and advocacy for some 4.7 million registered Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the occupied Palestinian territory, pending a solution to their plight. The Agency’s services encompass education, health care, social safety-net, camp infrastructure and improvement, community support, microfinance and emergency response, including in times of armed conflict.

UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions. The Agency’s core budget for 2010-2011 stands at $1.23 billion. In 2009, emergency appeals for the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon amounted to $827.4 million.

   


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