The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Monday reopened schools it runs in Jordan after the summer recess, welcoming some 120,000 Palestinian refugee students despite cuts in financial support. .
"120,000 Palestinian refugee children in Jordan are returning to 169 schools run by the UN agency," the agency said in a statement received by AFP.
“There are 2.3 million Palestine refugees registered in UNRWA in Jordan,” she said. UNRWA schools serve nearly 120,000 boys and girls in grades 1 to 10 and then move either to government schools or to one of the Agency´s education and training institutes. Technical and technical. "
"For nearly 70 years, UNRWA has maintained the right to education for Palestine refugee children and provided them with inclusive and quality education in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and has graduated some 2.5 million students from schools," the statement said. Agency since the 1950s. "
“The fact that children return to school each year may seem very normal,” the statement quoted UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl as saying. their lives".
He added that "prioritizing education contributes not only to human development in the region, but also to its stability until a just and lasting solution to the plight of Palestine refugees is reached."
UNRWA faced its biggest financial challenge in 2018 following a US decision to cut $ 300 million of its funding to the agency.
Founded in 1949, UNRWA provides assistance to more than three million Palestinians out of five million registered refugees in the Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Jordan hosts some 2.2 Palestinian refugees living in 10 camps.
