Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter (No. 66 January-February-March 1971) Magazine (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)

UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)

Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1971

About this Item

A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs 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: cover photo "Training five-year-olds at an UNRWA/Quaker pre-school play centre in Rafah, the Gaza Strip"; news items Commentary (in date order); Reconstruction Nears Completion in East Jordan; The Abusindian Family Rebuilds (with photos: "Hafis Abusindian rebuilt his destroyed home by himself. For several weeks, before new walls were up, he and some of his children slept outside on the rubble"); The Refugees and UNRWA: Back in the Jordan Valley (with photo and map); In Desperation, Displaced Refugees Returning; "Headstart" Provided by Pre-School Playcentres in the Gaza Strip (with profile of 1970 Infant Leader graduate and teacher Safa [no last name provided]); Shelters Replace Tents in Syrian Emergency Camps; Facing El Tor ("The ancient scourge, cholera, arrived once again in the Middle East in the summer of 1970"). Seller Inventory # 008216

Bibliographic Details

Title: Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA ...

Publisher: UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon

Publication Date: 1971

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition