UNRWA opens new school for Palestinian refugees in Jordan

STORY: UNRWA opens new school for Palestinian refugees in Jordan DATELINE: Oct. 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:03 LOCATION: Amman CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the new school 2. SOUNDBITE (English): BEN MAJEKODUNMI, UNRWA Chief of Staff STORYLINE: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on Wednesday opened a new school in Talbiyeh camp for Palestinian refugees in the Jordanian capital Amman. In addition to 16 classrooms, the new school features a library, science and computer labs as well as facilities for teachers and a canteen for students. The new school is expected to accommodate more than 1,200 Palestinian refugee students. SOUNDBITE (English): BEN MAJEKODUNMI, UNRWA Chief of Staff "UNRWA, an agency that relies on voluntary contributions, provides us with a degree of predictability that is incredibly important in our planning, but even more than that, it is incredibly important in terms of the reassurance that it allows us to transmit to Palesti

UNRWA summer games camp for children kicks off in Gaza

STORY: UNRWA summer games camp for children kicks off in Gaza DATELINE: June 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:22 LOCATION: GAZA, Palestine CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the kick-off ceremony and children participating in summer games camp 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): BEN MAJEKODUNMI, Officer-in-Charge of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza 3. various of children participating in summer games camp 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): JANA AL-NAJJAR, Gaza-based girl 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): SALMA MOHAMMED, Gaza-based girl 6. various of children participating in summer games STORYLINE: Summer games camp for children organized by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) kicked off on Monday in a bid to help the participants get rid of their psychological problems. In a press statement sent to Xinhua, UNRWA said that about 120,000 children aged from six to 14 have participated in the summer camps, distributed among 83 UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip. Ben Majekodunmi, the Officer-in-Charge of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza,