FROM THE WEST BANK: Progress Report on Early Childhood EducationA 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. Read moreWater for HalhoulDuring 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. Read more
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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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