{"id":209527,"date":"2011-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=209527"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:46:38","slug":"auto-insert-209527","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209527\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bank refugee youth take part in EU-UNRWA Days – UNRWA article"},"content":{"rendered":"
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West Bank refugee youth take part in EU-UNRWA Days<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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اللاجئين الشباب في الضفة الغربية يشاركون في أيام المرح للاتحاد الأوروبي والأونروا<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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22 December 2011
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Hundreds of UNRWA students gathered last week at a school in Nablus to participate in a closing celebration of “EU-UNRWA Days”, a programme that exposed Palestine refugee students to European culture and history.<\/p>\n

Through singing, dancing, and other performances, the students demonstrated what they had learned through the programme – a series of one-day extracurricular activities held at UNRWA schools throughout the West Bank, provided thanks to the generous support of the European Union.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A celebration of education<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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“After 62 years, today is not a day to celebrate UNRWA,” said the Agency’s David Hutton, “but rather the continuing strength and resilience of Palestine refugees, and their desire to prepare their children for the future through education.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hutton was joined at the celebration by over 200 friends and families of the students, along with guests from the EU and the French Cultural Centre. Classes of girls and boys danced, sang, rapped, used handmade puppets, and even quizzed the audience on European history in both English and Arabic.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Students demonstrate their knowledge through art<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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After the performance, the audience was invited into an exhibition space displaying art projects created by the students during EU-UNRWA Days. The success of the programme was exemplified through the art, including a model of the Eiffel Tower and an illustrated report on jazz in the Czech Republic.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Following statements from EU and UNRWA officials, a student representative summed up the general sentiment in a speech to the audience.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“These days have raised our awareness and understanding of European culture,” she said. “We’ve enjoyed every single minute we spent in the summer camp. It was the first summer camp of its kind that we’ve ever had, and we’re hoping it won’t be the last.”<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

West Bank refugee youth take part in EU-UNRWA Days اللاجئين الشباب في الضفة الغربية يشاركون في أيام المرح للاتحاد الأوروبي والأونروا 22 December 2011 Jerusalem Hundreds of UNRWA students gathered last week at a school in Nablus to participate in a closing celebration of “EU-UNRWA Days”, a programme that exposed Palestine refugee students to European […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2437,1329],"document-source":[2505,1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2033,2441,1745],"entity":[1889,5343,1729],"document-language":[6544,6542],"class_list":["post-209527","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-arabic-text","document-category-press-release","document-source-european-union-eu","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-children","document-subject-education-and-culture","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","entity-palestine-plo-palestinian-authority","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-arabic","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/209527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/209527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=209527"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=209527"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=209527"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=209527"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=209527"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=209527"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=209527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}