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Through the Australian Government’s Australia Assists program, Nisarg, an emergency management specialist from Melbourne, joined UNRWA’s Covid-19 Response Taskforce as an Emergency Officer.

Redefining resilience in the face of covid-19

25 January 2021
For the 5.7 million registered Palestine refugees living in the Middle East, life before Covid-19 was already challenging. Nearly one-third of the refugees live in 58 recognised camps across Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza, where the conditions are very...
Palestine refugee children from the UNRWA Mikhael Kashour school in Aleppo show off their art from the COVID-19 activity they participated in, designed to raise awareness about the virus and teach children how to adapt to the new situation. © 2020 UNRWA Photo

UNRWA students from Ein el Tal and Aleppo join forces to raise awareness about COVID-19

14 January 2021
Many students and teachers were anxious when the schools reopened in Syria and worried about the restrictive COVID-19 preventative measures.
Student Abdallah El Hussein in class at the UNRWA Siblin Training Centre, Lebanon. © 2019 UNRWA Photo

“No Obstacle Can Stop a Dream”: Siblin Training Centre students excel in official exams

12 January 2021
In 2020, 41 Palestine refugee students from the semi-professional course in Building and Public Works and Business Management at the UNRWA Siblin Training Centre (STC) sat for their official Technique Superieur (TS) exams, after some two years of study. In spite of all the...
Ninety-year-old Kadraa al-Mawed (left), a returnee to the Yarmouk Palestine refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, receives some medical attention from an UNRWA medical worker at the UNRWA Mobile Clinic. © 2020 UNRWA Photo

UNRWA mobile health clinic brings a sign of hope to the devastated Yarmouk camp

11 January 2021
“I had tears in my eyes when I heard that UNRWA started returning services to my camp. I had to flee from Palestine as a young woman in 1948, to Lebanon first, and then to Syria
This photograph shows the Grade 9 Graduating Class of 2007 from the UNRWA Haifa Boys’ School in Damascus, Syria, 2007. © Photo courtesy of Nowras Rahhal

Nowras’ Journey to His Contribution in the Search for a COVID-19 Vaccine

22 December 2020
Nowras, 27 years old, started life as a Palestine refugee in Syria whose family fled Haifa in historic Palestine in the wake of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

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