ANERA News & Notes
An Update on ANERA activities
October 7, 2010

FROM THE WEST BANK:

Progress Report on Early Childhood Education

A key building block to ANERA's new Early Childhood Education Program in the West Bank is capacity. As part of the initial pilot program, ANERA's team developed and facilitated an intensive training course in August for 20 preschool teachers and managers from four designated model pre-schools in the Bethlehem and Nablus regions of the West Bank. The rigorous two-week course covered fundamentals of early childhood care and education including child development, child rights, learning theories, safety, classroom organization, expressive arts, play and much more.

"They were all exhausted but they all wanted more," said ANERA ECE Program Coordinator Sulaima Abu-El-Haj.
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Water for Halhoul

During an exceptionally hot summer in Halhoul, Etaf Milhem worried constantly about the availability of water in her house and her planted fields. The town of Halhoul, with 28,000 residents, is located north of Hebron in the West Bank. Economic constraints and frequent closures often prevent Halhoul families leaving the town in search of work. Today, Etaf has finally found some peace of mind, temporary as it may be, with a newly constructed cistern.
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FROM HEADQUARTERS:

ANERA Announces New Board Officers and Members

ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid) is pleased to announce the election of Ambassador Skip Gnehm as the new Chair of the Board. Dr Alfred Khoury of Fairfax, Virginia and attorney Judith Judd of Denver, Colorado were elected Vice Chairs. Mike de Graffenried of Doha, Qatar, serves as Treasurer/Secretary. Read more

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About ANERA:

For more than 40 years, ANERA has been a leading provider of development, health, education and employment programs to Palestinian communities and impoverished families throughout the Middle East.  In FY 2009, the relief and development agency delivered more than $50 million of programs to the people of the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon and Jordan.

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