UNRWA schools provide hope to young Palestinians in Jordan

Tánaiste Micheál Martin visiting an UNRWA-funded school in the Talbieh camp in Jordan, where a class of 11- and 12-year-old Palestinian girls revealed aspirations of becoming doctors, architects, and policewomen. 

For more than 1,000 pupils who attend the Talbieh Camp girls’ school, education is the one thing that cannot be taken away from them.

Many of girls enrolled in the school, which is one of four in the refugee camp outside Amman, are second- or even third-generation Palestinian. Their parents, grandparents, or even great-grandparents fled to Jordan many years ago, having being forced off their land.