Every year, UNRWA commemorates World Health Day (WHD) on 7 April. With the theme ‘Beat Diabetes’, this year’s WHD focuses on diabetes as a threat to the health and well-being of people around the world
Supported by generous funding from Dubai Cares, the UNRWA Education Department and Community Mental Health Programme has engaged more than 175,000 children in UNRWA schools in Gaza through the delivery of weekly arts and sports classe
Palestine refugee and West Bank teacher, Hanan al-Hroub, has been awarded the Global Teacher Prize, known as ‘the Education Nobel’, for her work with traumatized children in the West Bank
On International Women’s Day, UNRWA pays a proud tribute to its thousands of female school principals, teachers, education specialists, attendants, doctors, nurses, social workers, administrative and other staff.
UNRWA today appealed to donors for US$ 414 million to meet the critical humanitarian needs of Palestine refugees affected by the conflict in Syria, which is now entering its sixth year. The Agency’s 2016 Emergency Appeal for the Syria Regional Crisis aims to support 450,000 Palestine refugees inside Syria, as well as the 60,000 who have fled to Lebanon and Jordan.
