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Khalifa Foundation Provides Relief to Poorest in Gaza, West Bank
Date : 22/8/2010 Time : 00:14
GAZA, August 21, 2010 (WAFA) - On the occasion of Ramadan,the Khalifa Bin Zayed
Charity Foundation has funded two projects in Gaza and the West Bank to assist
poor Palestinian refugees through the distribution of hot meals and meat.
The projects will be implemented through the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency (UNRWA).
In Gaza, UNRWA will distribute hot meals to approximately 90,000 people. The
project will be implemented through the Agency's community-based organisations
(CBOs), which include nine women's programme centres and six community
rehabilitation centres as well as six youth activity centres. In total,
approximately 30,000 meals for three persons each will be prepared and
distributed to the poor at these CBOs. The Agency will also arrange to deliver
food to those who cannot reach to the CBOs.
In the West Bank, thanks to the generous donation of the UAE humanitarian
agency, UNRWA will purchase fresh meat for 12,710 vulnerable families who are
unable to meet their minimum nutritional needs. Each family will each receive
2.5kg of locally purchased meat over the four Fridays of Ramadan through
UNRWA's
partner network of CBOs in refugee camps.
In a statement, UNRWA said Priority will be given to orphans, the elderly, and
to those who have lost their homes due to Israeli military operations or
violent
attacks by Israeli settler groups. In addition, a Children's Charity in
Bethlehem, SOS Kindergarten International, will receive 100kg of meat each week
of Ramadan to support their work with poor and homeless orphans.
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