UNRWA Back to School 2018 - West Bank and Gaza Celebrations by UNRWA

UNRWA Back to School 2018 - West Bank and Gaza Celebrations

2018

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back to school #ProtectEducation #ForPalestineRefugees #Back2School

Thanks to the steadfast support from its donors and partners, UNRWA today opened its school doors and 526,000 Palestine refugee kids across the Middle East, like children all over the world, can look forward to going back to school to learn, explore and have fun with their friends, in spite of the challenges many of them face in an uncertain environment. Perhaps more than others, they are aware that this is their passport to the future lived in dignity, safety and security. For the past 70 years UNRWA has successfully protected the right to education for Palestine refuge children through its network of over 700 schools, providing inclusive and quality education, including during times of conflict, blockade and occupation, in the process graduating some 2 million pupils. Even though UNRWA today celebrates the right to education with the timely start of the academic year, additional financial support will be required to keep the doors open. As articulated by UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl, “We cannot imagine going back to these children to say that we have failed to mobilize the needed resources to keep their schools open. Every child has a right to education.”

UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl, joins in on a class at the UNRWA Jalazone Basic Girls’ School, West Bank.

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grade students from the UNRWA Bahrain Boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; School in Gaza pose on their first day of school.

Â© UNRWA 2018 Photo by: Khalil Adwan

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of students gather on their first day of school at the UNRWA El-Rimal Coeducational School C in Gaza on August 29, 2018.

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gather on their first day of school at the UNRWA Jalazone Basic Girls’ School, West Bank on August 29, 2018.

by: Khalil Adwan

new friendships

blossom on the first day of school at the UNRWA El-Rimal Coeducational School C in Gaza on August 29, 2018. UNRWA Bahrain Basic Boys’ School, Gaza. #ProtectEducation #ForPalestineRefugees #Back2School

UNRWA Jalazone Basic Girls’ School, West Bank.

UNRWA Bahrain Basic Boys’ School, Gaza. #ProtectEducation #ForPalestineRefugees #Back2School

UNRWA Jalazone Basic Girls’ School, West Bank.