DEIR AMMAR REFUGEE CAMP

Deir Ammar camp was established in 1949 on .160 square kilometres 30 kilometers north-west of Ramallah. The camp was built on a plot of land belonging to non-refugee residents of Deir Ammar village. In return, UNRWA's installations in the camp also provide services to non-refugee villagers. The camp’s original inhabitants come from destroyed villages in the Ramleh, Jaffa and Lydd areas.

While all shelters are connected to public water and electricity infrastructure, there is no sewerage system, and residents thus latrines connected to percolation pits. A private septic tank collects the waste and dumps it in a wadi three kilometres from the camp, for a fee. Following the Oslo Agreements, the camp fell under joint Israeli-Palestinian control.

Registered Refugees

• Total: 2,384 (December 2007)
• Average family size: 5.5
• Poverty rate: 73.4%; 62.6% in absolute poverty
• Unemployment rate: 23.2%
• Average monthly income: NIS 2,017
• Average Age: 22.5
• Demographic Profile

UNRWA Education Programme

• Schools: 2 elementary/preparatory schools.
• Pupils: 1070

UNRWA Relief and Social Services Programme

• Food distribution centre: 1
• Social Safety Net (SSN) Programme beneficiaries: 60 families
• UNRWA collects trash from daily, which is then transported to a dumping site 3 kilometres from the camp

UNRWA Health Programme

• UNRWA health centre: 1, with 509 active family files
• Other health centres: 2

UNRWA Emergency Programme

• 482 families receiving emergency food and cash assistance

Community Involvement

• 1 Community Based Rehabilitation Centre.
• 1 Youth activity Centre
• 1 Children Centre
• 1 kindergarten
• 1 Women’s Programme Centre
• 1 mosque