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UNRWA students use their mobile phones to keep learning and defy Islamic State Group

UNRWA students use their mobile phones to keep learning and defy Islamic State Group

22 June 2018
Roula is 16 years-old and from Yarmouk, the now largely destroyed Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Just as she was preparing for her 9 th grade exams, intense fighting broke out in the camp, destroying her home. This is not the biggest challenge she has come to face...
Nuha Abu Nasser with one of her students at a recently re-opened UNRWA school in Sbeineh camp, Rif Damascus, Syria ©2018 UNRWA Photo by Fernande van Tets

Back on the First Day: After Four Years without access a teacher returns to her classroom in Sbeineh camp

10 May 2018
Nuha Abu Nasser, a 40-year-old from Sbeineh camp, smiles as she walks through the hallway of a recently re-opened UNRWA school.
Jarah al-Hawamdeh 2018

Climbing Mount Everest to Save an UNRWA School

11 April 2018
When Jarah al-Hawamdeh was having treatment for bone cancer, he lay awake at night dreaming of his future as a mountaineer. He was just 15 years old and suffering lengthy bouts of insomnia after doctors amputated his right leg. But Jarah refused to let this ruin his life...
Tala Al Masri, a Palestine refugee student in Grade 6, sits among her class mates at the UNRWA Zaytoun Elementary Co-Ed B school in Gaza. The school is adopted by the United Arab Emirates. © 2018 UNRWA Photo by Mohammed Hinnawi

Guided by the light in her heart, Tala is determined to achieve her dreams

10 April 2018
Sitting at the front of the classroom, 11-year-old Tala Al-Masri, is bright-eyed and attentive as she pursues her dream of an education at the UNRWA Zaytoun Elementary Co-Ed B School in Gaza. In spite of being born with a severe visual impairment, leaving her with little...
Rana plays with her children at their house at Neirab camp, Aleppo, Syria © 2017 UNRWA Photo by Ahmad Abu Zeid

“We left for the children”

05 April 2018
When Rana Mahmoud Halabi (33) talks about her comfortable life before the war, her eyes light up. Her husband used to fish for tilapia and carp in the Euphrates river. She would help him clean the catch of the day before he brought it to market. “Raqqa was a lovely city,”...