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Student teachers and their little students from the UNRWA Jabal El-Hussein Basic School in Amman, Jordan. © 2019 UNRWA photo by Dania Al-Batayneh.

The Little Teacher initiative: QFFD support empowers Palestine refugee students who strive to become teachers

02 March 2020
We all have a dream we want to achieve. Do you remember when adults would ask you what you wanted to be when you grew up? We would answer with excitement, “I want to be a doctor! An engineer! An artist!”
"We are doing a lot of activities with students about the importance of healthy food and personal hygiene and they have been putting it into practice at school and at home,” says the school’s health tutor, Ghada Zaidane. © 2019 UNRWA Photo

EU Healthy Kids promotes positive, healthy habits in Lebanon

26 February 2020
Students, parents and teachers at the UNRWA Deir al-Qasi School in Saida, Lebanon took part in the European Union-supported Healthy Kids campaign.
Students from UNRWA Al Zaitoun Preparatory Girls’ School “C” presenting their hand crafts products. © 2020 UNRWA Photo by Khalil Adwan.

Art for healing - An UNRWA arts and crafts initiative that changes lives

24 February 2020
10-year old Maryam sits engaged in a lively conversation with her friends, all of whom are crowded around an arts & crafts table at the UNRWA Al Zaitoun Preparatory Girls’ School “C” in Gaza.
Before and after photos of furniture Rasha Yassine a young Palestine refugee has furnished in a successful small business she founded, Platfurn., © 2019 UNRWA Photo

The UNRWA Innovation Lab Helped Me Turn My Dream into a Successful Project

24 February 2020
Rasha Yassine, a beneficiary of the UNRWA Youth Unit’s Innovation Lab Social Entrepreneurship training, showcases before and after pictures of discarded furniture she transforms into stylish, refurbished pieces as part of her small business she founded, Platfurn . As...
Mr. Ismaeel Abbas waiting for his assistance at an UNRWA cash distribution centre in Damascus. © 2019 UNRWA photo by Heba Hajjawi.

Parenthood In War: One Father’s Ongoing Struggle to Support his Family

18 February 2020
Ismaeel Abbas, a 61-year-old Palestine refugee from rural Damascus, never imagined his senior years would be filled with hardship.

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