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UNRWA signs an agreement with Welfare Association and Cayan
company to reconstruct the first school in Nahr el Bared camp |
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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.
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What a Drama!
UK funds drama workshop for young Palestine refugees in Lebanon |
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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.
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EU contributes to school rebuilding in Lebanon |
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 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.
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‘Normal Life’, Courtesy of UNRWA and the EU |
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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.
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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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