Walaa and Hanadi are close friends, having grown up together in the Ein el Hillweh camp near Sidon, in Lebanon. Both girls left school very young, and long before they completed their education. Low self-esteem and decreased ambition were swift to follow.
The European Union Representative and UNRWA’s Commissioner-General today signed an agreement for €66 million towards UNRWA’s General Fund – the largest single donation to the Agency’s core budget.
Barbara Shenstone, director of operations for UNRWA in the West Bank, yesterday planted an olive tree in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, in support of a project to create jobs and ‘green’ the local area, which sits close to the Israeli settlement of Yitzar.
Today 36 Palestine refugee students celebrated their graduation from UNRWA's North Vocational Training Centre in Lebanon. Around 80 per cent have already found employment, helping their community recover from the 2007 Nahr el-Bared camp conflict.
Ali Abu Al-Kabash is 52 years old. He has been blind since birth. Ali lives in Al Samuaa village in the Hebron area with his wife, who is a refugee from Gaza.
UNRWA and the European Union have announced an extra contribution of EUR€5.5m in support of UNRWA’s health and environmental health programme in the Gaza Strip.
The Commissioner General of UNRWA and the European Union representative Mr. Christian Berger today signed an agreement that will provide EUR€10 million in support of UNRWA’s education programme.
The European Union and UNRWA yesterday unveiled the foundation stone of an ambitious project to improve infrastructure in two Palestine refugee camps in Lebanon.
Meet Hossam Ashqar. Over the past six years, Hossam has worked with UNRWA's job creation programme in all the regions of the Gaza Strip, with a spirit of tirelessness and determination.
