In the year 1948, Palestinians have uprooted from twenty cities and about four hundred villages; about seven hundred thousand Palestinians i.e. 66% of the residents of Palestine became homeless; this represented the complete deterioration of the Palestinian society with all its components and bases; it lead to the emergence of a new phenomenon in the Palestinian society which is the Palestinian Refugees Camps that spread in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and neighboring countries: Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon and the rest of the world. One of these camps is Arroub Refugee Camp. These camps which bear witness to the catastrophe, homelessness and uprooting of Palestinians from their lands and homeland symbolize their daily sufferings on all levels: cultural, social, economic, and political. They still exist up till this present moment waiting for a political decision to put an end to their pain and suffering. In the human history there is not any crime which is as brutal as the crime of forcing Palestinians out of their lands in 1948 at the hands of the Zionist gangsters; this was later called the Palestinian Nakba (Setback).
Arroub refugee camp lies in the north of Hebron district. It was founded on the year 1947 after Nakba in the year 1948, under the supervision of UNRWA. It has 9000 people, dividing into 1284 families, all of them are refugees, were uprooted form their homeland in the years 1948, 1967 by Israeli occupation. The camp is very crowded area, 40 meters for each family with an average of 7 persons. The majority of the families are very poor, having a lot of economics problems, and living on the very limited support of the UNRWA who offers the education, the food, and a health center.
Project Details:
Donor: The Lady Fatemah (A.S.) Charitable Trust-London.
Beneficiaries: Arroub Camp Boys School, Hebron, Palestine.
Number of Beneficiaries: 458 students.
Date of the project: Sunday, June 17, 2012.
Student’s details: 458 students from first stage-fourth stage, each stage divided into three classes, for the academic year 2011/2012, as follows:
| No. | Class | Section | Boys |
| 1 | First | A, B, C | 102 |
| 2 | Second | A, B, C | 114 |
| 3 | Third | A, B, C | 114 |
| 4 | Fourth | A, B, C | 128 |
| Total | 458 | ||
Project content and materials:
| No. | Type | No. |
| 1 | Water cooler | 6 |
| 2 | Water plumbing, and electricity | - |
| 3 | Water filter | 1 |
| 4 | Wordings for water coolers | 6 |
Beneficiaries characteristics:
Distribution of the students by school class
Upon the completion of this charity project and on behalf of Arroub Camp students, people and the society board members, I would like to extend my deepest thanks and appreciation to The Lady Fatemah (A.S.) Charitable Trust for their generous support for our sons and daughters.
We have done this charity project not by our efforts alone, but also through your generous support and kindness, may Allah bless you and reward you the Jana, Ameen. “Saqa Allah Man Asqanaa”. “inna lanudeeAAu ajra man ahsana AAamala” (We will not allow to be lost the reward of any who did well in deeds). Sadaga Allah Al Atheem.
With my deepest salaamas and duas,
Professor Bassam Banat,
President
