H.E. Mr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced on September 26 a contribution of US$50 Million to the core program budget of UNRWA for 2019.
Mercy USA for Aid and Development has contributed a generous donation to the UNRWA to benefit some 500 visually impaired Palestine refugee students at the Rehabilitation Center for the Visually Impaired (RCVI) in Gaza.
UNRWA in Jordan and the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) inaugurated the UNRWA Amman New Camp Preparatory Girls’ School 1 and 2 after comprehensive renovation and furnishing works of the school were completed.
UNRWA inaugurated a new building in the UNRWA Jenin Basic Boys’ School in the northern West Bank. The school is one of tens of construction projects in the West Bank funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD)