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Jabalia Refugee Camp
Jabalia Camp is the largest of the Gaza Strip's eight refugee camps.
It covers 1.4 km2 and is located north of Gaza, close to a
village by the same name. 35,000 refugees settled in the camp after the
Arab-Israeli war in 1948, most having fled from villages in southern
Palestine. Now, it houses a population of 195,249 refugees.
Population:
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The camp population 195,249 (31 December 2008). 107,590 in the
camp and 87,659 outside the camp.
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The camp house 18.19 per cent of Gaza’s total refugee
population.
UNRWA Education Programme:
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UNRWA operates 37 schools in 13 school buildings in the camp, 22
elementary and 15 preparatory. 13 of the 37 schools are run on
double shift basis.
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Enrollment in the current academic year 2008/2009 totals 38505.
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The total number of class sections is 1037, 679 classes in the
elementary schools and 358 classes in the preparatory schools
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UNRWA runs 13 schools in Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, and Izbet Beit
Hanoun.
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The total number of teachers is 1374 among them 829 female
teachers and 545 male teachers.
UNRWA Health Programme:
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The Agency's health centre was built in the early sixties by the
Belgians.
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The Agency's health centre in the camp is staffed by 96 health
care workers assigned to a morning and afternoon shifts.
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It provides outpatient, dental, maternal-child health, family
planning clinics as well as a laboratory and pharmacy.
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In 2008, on average of 40,497 consultations were held there each
month.
UNRWA Relief and Social Services:
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There are 22 Relief staff members in the camp.
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A total of 3900 families (18356 people) residing in the camp are
eligible for relief assistance under the Agency’s Social Safety Net
(SSN) programme.
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1,387 families are classified as abjectly poor and receive
Family Income Supplements. 11,011 people are classified as abjectly
poor.
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There is one distribution centre in the camp.
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339 shelters are to be reconstructed under the SSN. 259 are in
the camp and 80 are out the camp.
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568 SSNP shelters need to be repaired, 275 are in the camp and
293 are outside the camp
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Within its social services programme, UNRWA is sponsoring one
Women’s Programme Centre in the camp.
Microfinance and Microenterprise:
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Through its Small-scale Enterprise Credit
Product, UNRWA has extended loans with a combined value of US$
386,4200.00 to 36 borrowers residing in the camp, among them owners
of carpentry, aluminum and automotive repair workshops, a
blacksmith, a gynecologist, two building contractors, clothes,
sweets and a manufacturer of plastic and rubber products.
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Through its Solidarity Group Lending Product, the
Agency has made loans totaling US$2,492,398.00 to 3,260 women from
the camp.
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Through its Micro-enterprise Credit Product,
loans totaling US$ 2,633,839.00 to the owners of 2,450
micro-enterprises.
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Through its consumer-lending product, the Agency
has issued 958 loans valued at US$ 648,750.00
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Through its Housing Loan Product the Microfinance
Department has issued 88 loans valued at US$ 586,000.00.
UNRWA Emergency Programme:
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The number of beneficiaries’ coupons/families is 17,818 and the
number of individual beneficiaries is 89,154.
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There are 15 staff in Jabalia Distribution centre is 15, 11
staff in the Beit Hanoun distribution centre and 13 in the North
Gaza Distribution Centre.
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There are 18 staff in the Jabalia and Beit Hanoun
Emergency Office.
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There are three staff in the JCP Office.
UNRWA Environmental Health:
A Sanitation Office, which is staffed by 99 employees, takes care of
daily collection of refuse, cleaning of roads and alleys, transporting
the refuse from the camp to municipal landfill sites, rodents and
insects control, operating and monitoring five water wells, monitoring
water supply through chemical and bacteriological testing, and operating
petrol and diesel water pumps to pump storm water from flooded areas
during the rainy season.
UNRWA Engineering & Construction Services Department:
There are eight maintenance offices in the camp that offer
maintenance services for all UNRWA installations.
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