Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter (No. 12 December 1961) Magazine (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)

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

Verlag: UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1961

Beschreibung

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 "Refugee Mother and Child at an Experimental Health Centre." 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: A Christmas Reunion? ("If 72-year-old Nicola Musa Salameh from Bethlehem has a Christmas present this year, he will receive it by the Mandelbaum Gate. The Mandelbaum Gate, on the outskirts of the 'Old' Jerusalem, is the only official border crossing between Israel and Jordan"); short news items In Brief (including Visitors [featuring Senators Hubert Humphrey, Congressman William T. Cahill, Mr. R.A.D. Ford, and Hugh Downs]; Contributions from the Government of Kuwait; others); UNRWA Vocational Training Centre Opens in Damascus; UNRWA to Release Colour Film; World Refugee Gift from Norway; Experiment in Saving Lives (with photograph of ill refugee child: "UNRWA, this past summer, introduced to the Middle East a new method to combat the season's number one infant killer - infantile diarrhea"); New Look in the Camps Round the World's Oldest City (with photos of Aqabat Jaber, just outside Jericho); The Last Flight of the UNRWA Plane. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 008163

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA ...

Verlag: UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon

Erscheinungsdatum: 1961

Einband: Magazine

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition