
| UNRWA and PalTel Group inaugurate two training courses in communications and IT


| 03 April 2012 UNRWA West Bank and PalTel launched two workshops in mobile phone maintenance and information technology (IT) at the Kalandia Training Centre today, an activity that falls in line with the comprehensive tertiary education reform implemented by UNRWA in the West Bank “towards a confident and self-reliant youth”. |

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| Millennium Development Goals Summit Statement


| 29 September 2010 The world is watching; the world is listening - watching as we assemble to speak about development and listening as we declare our good intentions. And as it does so, it will weigh us in the balance. |

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| Millennium Development Goals

| The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to the world's main development challenges. UNRWA’s commitment to the goals guides all the Agency’s services. |

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| UNRWA Students Make a Stand Against Poverty


| 19 October 2009 This year 485,023 UNRWA school children in the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, stood up simultaneously and shouted "No to poverty" in protest of their own poverty and the poverty of others throughout the world. |

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| Social safety-net programme

| The relief and social services social safety-net programme is the only programme that caters to the needs of the most vulnerable Palestine refugees by delivering food aid and cash subsidies on a regular basis. |

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| The life-cycle approach

| UNRWA uses the life cycle approach in its health services, helping refugees at every stage of their lives, from preconception to active ageing. |

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| Education

| UNRWA operates one of the largest school systems in the Middle East, with nearly 700 schools, and has been the main provider of primary education to Palestine refugees for sixty years. |

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| Health

| UNRWA delivers basic health services and is responsible for providing a healthy living environment for Palestine refugees. |

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