United Nations – UN Needs $80 Million For Schools For Palestinian Refugees

    5

    FILE - Palestinian school children prepare to fly kites to show solidarity with the Japanese people, near the Japan-funded housing project in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 13, 2016. ReutersUnited Nations – The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees expressed hope Tuesday that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait will come up with $80 million to ensure that 500,000 boys and girls who are refugees can start the next school year on time in August.

    Join our WhatsApp group

    Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email


    Last year, a $101 million shortfall in the budget of the agency, known as UNRWA, almost led to a delay in starting school.

    Pierre Krahenbuhl told a news conference Tuesday that the three Gulf countries came to the rescue last year and he hopes they will “renew the generosity this year.”

    “If we could have that, then we will be able to avoid another crisis this summer,” he said.

    UNRWA operates 700 schools for Palestinian refugees with 22,000 education staff in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Last year’s funding crisis almost led to a delay in the start of the school year.

    Krahenbuhl stressed the importance of education for Palestinian refugees, many who have spent their lives in camps, as key to giving them hope for the future.

    Compared to school systems in the United States, Krahenbuhl said the Palestinian refugee school system would be the third largest after New York and Los Angeles.

    He said UNRWA, “has been in challenging financial circumstances for many years and many decades, and the notion is to learn from last summer’s large-scale crisis.”

    “We are working very hard early in the year to prevent a repetition of this crisis,” Krahenbuhl said, pointing to UNRWA’s adoption of a zero-growth budget and measures to contain costs and expenditures.

    “We appeal to donors to be very engaged on their side also, to help us bridge this year’s shortfall which is currently still at $80 million,” he said, especially the three Gulf states.


    Listen to the VINnews podcast on:

    iTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Podbean | Amazon

    Follow VINnews for Breaking News Updates


    Connect with VINnews

    Join our WhatsApp group


    5 Comments
    Most Voted
    Newest Oldest
    Inline Feedbacks
    View all comments
    shvache_teritz
    shvache_teritz
    7 years ago

    Send them to the shtieblech, there there’s more chances

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    7 years ago

    Ask Abbas –he knows how to hide money!!

    7 years ago

    There is no UN agency that can be trusted on this. These schools will not teach math or science. They will teach hate, murder, and terror. They do not need to be supported by exterminated. Until such time as these animals can prove they can live in a civilized world, they should be prevented from access to any resources. Supporting Palestinian schools is tacit support of terror.

    takeittothem
    takeittothem
    7 years ago

    why, oh why, are there still Palestinian ‘refugees’ in ‘refugee camps’?
    the same year that Israel fought the British, India and Pakistan divided – with MILLIONS of muslim and hind refugees crossing borders. nary a one refugee still lives in any indian or Pakistani refugee camp. ditto for many, many more refugees world-wide.
    but, ho ho, Palestinian ‘refugees’ now need millions of dollars, eventhough these are grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the original ‘refugees’ !
    GEVALT !!

    7 years ago

    They will learn more in their schools than our kids learn in most yeshivas.