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Tag: Nahr el-Bared
| Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General on the Inauguration of Package 1 of NBC


| 28 September 2011
 We have been working hard altogether to reconstruct Nahr el Bared camp, and it has taken us a bit longer than we anticipated to reach our first milestone when, earlier this year, 369 new homes were finished and consigned to families who were finally able to return: approximately 1200 Palestinians have now done so. |

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| EU contributes EUR €12 million to improve the living conditions of Palestine refugees in Lebanon


| 16 September 2011
 The European Union will further support UNRWA in its endeavours to alleviate the dire living conditions of Palestine refugees in Lebanon through a new programme for a total budget of EUR €12 million. |

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| On World Refugee Day, Palestinian in Lebanon wins UNRWA annual film competition


| 20 June 2011
 A 25-year-old woman from Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon has won UNRWA’s second annual World Refugee Day film. |

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| Norway donates NOK 5,500,000 for the construction of a school in Nahr el-Bared


| 28 May 2011
 Norway has donated NOK 5,500,000 (US$1,033,699) as a contribution to the construction of a school in Nahr el-Bared through UNRWA. |

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| First families return to their new houses in Nahr el Bared camp


| 20 April 2011
 On 19 April 2011, UNRWA handed over the newly reconstructed homes to the first group of families in the first package out of eight packages of Nahr el-Bared camp. More families will return in several groups over the coming weeks. |

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| European delegation visits Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon


| 06 April 2011
 A delegation of the European Union (EU), comprising the head of the EU delegation to Lebanon, Ambassador Angelina Eichhorst, and seven ambassadors of EU Member States visited Nahr el-Bared camp. |

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| Aramex and UNRWA inaugurate a library in Nahr el-Bared camp

| 27 March 2011
 Logistics and transportation company Aramex and UNRWA inaugurated a public library in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in north Lebanon today, in the presence of the Regional Manager of Aramex in Lebanon and West Africa, Mrs Asma Zein, and the Deputy Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, Mr Robert Hurt. |

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| Japan donates US$ 2.4 million to Nahr el-Bared Camp reconstruction


| 24 March 2011
 The Japanese Ambassador to Lebanon, H.E. Koichi Kawakami, and the Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, Salvatore Lombardo, signed today an exchange of notes formalizing a ¥201 million (US$ 2.4 million) donation to the reconstruction of Nahr el-Bared Palestine refugee camp in north Lebanon. |

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| Picking up the pieces in Nahr el-Bared


| 01 March 2011
 This is the second part of a two-part photo-essay depicting the life of Palestine refugees in Lebanon’s refugee camps. The photographs in this essay are all from the temporary shelters in the areas adjacent to Nahr el-Bared camp and were taken in late September 2010. |

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| Strong as iron: UNRWA tackles anaemia in Lebanon


| 01 March 2011
 A new UNRWA campaign is tackling the high rate of iron deficiency (anaemia) among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, where one-in-four pregnant Palestinian women suffer from the disorder, as do a high number of children under the age of three. |

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