By NNN-KUNA
Dubai : Some 9,000 children from the Nahr El-Bared camp in Lebanon, destroyed in recent fighting, are now able in the new year to return to studying in temporary schools located in Beddawi and Nahr El-Bared areas thanks to Dubai Cares’ donation of USD 1.277 million, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said.
UNRWA’s Commissioner-General Karen Abu-Zayd warmly welcomed Wednesday the donation from Dubai Cares, “an organisation which has risen from the society of Dubai, whose leader has inspired his people to donate enthusiastically to a good cause: the education of poor children.”
Dubai Cares was launched with spectacular success earlier this year by Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum with an original aim of raising money to help educate one million children in poor countries.
With Dubai Cares’ contribution, UNRWA has rented, furnished and equipped schools in the Beddawi camp area and the area adjacent to Nahr El-Bared, to allow displaced children to continue their education as normally as possible, pending reconstruction of the camp and the schools it contained.
Traumatised children will be receiving psychological support, and recreational activities would be organised for them, an UNRWA press release said.
“UNRWA provides basic education to 500,000 Palestine refugee children in Gaza, West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.”