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UNRWA student, Ghada Kerryam, practicing installation and maintenance of photovoltaic systems at UNRWA Gaza Training Centre (GTC).©Photo credit 2020 UNRWA Photo by Khalil Adwan.

Education At Risk: Sustainable Energy Education in Gaza

04 February 2021
Green energy is not just another buzzword, or another best practice UNRWA is committed to. Instead, the Agency, with help from donor partners like GIZ, understand the need for new clean, renewable sources of energy in Gaza can be lifesaving. Cohorts of Palestine refugee...
From Education to Health: Siblin Training Centre, a place for wellbeing

From Education to Health: Siblin Training Centre, a place for wellbeing

03 February 2021
In May 2020, in preparation for COVID-19 outbreaks among the Palestinian community in Lebanon, UNRWA established a ninety-six bed Quarantine and Isolation Centre at the Agency’s Technical and Vocational Education Training Centre in Siblin (STC), in partnership with Médecins...
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...

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