
| UNRWA and EC Launch the Balloon Mobile in Fawwar Refugee Camp

| 27 September 2009
 UNRWA launched the "Blue Balloon Mobile" yesterday in Fawwar refugee camp as part of a series of commemorative events marking 60 years since the Agency was established. |

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| Business Women’s Committee of the Damascus Chamber of Commerce gives SYP 3.3 million to Gaza children


| 09 September 2009
 The Business Women’s Committee today presented a cheque for SYP 3.3 million to UNRWA to support Palestine refugee children in Gaza. |

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| Gaza Children On Top of the World


| 02 September 2009
 The Guinness Book of World Records has officially notified the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that the attempt by the children of Gaza to achieve a new world record for the largest number of kites flown simultaneously has been successful. |

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| Gaza Children Soaring Towards World Record Glory


| 31 July 2009
 UNRWA is confident that the children of Gaza have shattered the Guinness Book of World Record title for the number of kites flying simultaneously in the same place. |

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| Gaza’s Children Head for World Record Glory

| 30 July 2009
 Media invitation to witness a world record attempt for kite flying. |

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| Children of the desert


| 20 July 2009
 Ali likes drawing - everything. Trees and flowers, houses with happy families inside, gifts for Eiyad (Islamic celebrations), children playing in colorful parks. He does not draw from life. Al Tanf is a camp devoid of greenery and gifts. |

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| Summer Games Kick Off in Gaza


| 01 July 2009
 School has ended in Gaza, and the school children now face two and a half months of summer holiday. However, for many children in Gaza, unable to leave the confines of Gaza and with few facilities for activities available, the summer holidays are a time of boredom and frustration. |

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| Joint UNIACC Statement for the World Day Against Child Labour 2009

| 12 June 2009
 Celebrated on June 12 each year, the World Day Against Child Labour calls the world’s attention to the plight of millions of girls and boys around the world who are victims of child labour. It highlights the dangers and hazards faced by children who work at an early age, and the action necessary to tackle child labour. |

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| Face Your Fears to Conquer Them

| 03 June 2009
 Face Your Fears to Conquer Them – a motto for life that young Samer, a nine-year-old boy from Jabalia Camp in northern Gaza, was not able to embrace after witnessing a number of traumatic events in his young life. |

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| Dera’a Goes Green

| 15 April 2009
 ‘During spring and early summer the Syrian countryside blossoms. From the rolling hills in its northern limits to its vast southern plains, Syrian countryside is covered in a wash of colour,’ says Lubna, a young UNRWA teacher, to her class of eight to ten year olds. |

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