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A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. With front cover photograph of a young Palestinian boy in crafts class "UNRWA Pioneers in Teaching Handicrafts" and interior article entitled "Father of Handicrafts" (on James M. Milligan, who came to the Middle East in 1955 with the assignment of introducing handicrafts into the regular UNRWA-UNESCO school system in the Gaza Strip). The issue contains news and articles on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: Rush Diplomas ("Several lucky students at UNRWA's vocational training Centre at Kalandia, near Jerusalem, Jordan, this July took their final exams early, and, diplomas in hand, left school and their classmates behind"); short news articles In Brief (including United States Government Pledges Half a Million Dollars for Vocational Training; The Director of UNRWA [John H. Davis] Visits Saudi Arabia; American Catholics Appoint Full-time Representative in Jordan; Over a Million Refugee Patients Treated by Lutherans; others); World Council of Churches Backs UNRWA Programme; Blind Refugee Sheikh Flies Free to Germany for Treatment (on Sheikh Fadel el Zre'i); Latest Statistics ("The total number of Palestine refugees registered with UNRWA had reached 1,151,024 as of 30 June 1961" with accompanying table showing Registered Refugees and Refugees Entitled to Rations in Jordan, Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria); The Palm-Tree and the Pine-Tree ("Mohammed Hamdan Abid and Khalil Tawfiq Imbark are two from a group of ten 14-year-old refugee boys in the Gaza Strip who have written their first letters to girls"). Staples lightly age-rusted. Seller Inventory # 008161
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