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.
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
Project Details:
Donor: The Lady Fatemah (A.S.) Charitable Trust-London.
Beneficiaries: Arroub Camp students both males and females, Hebron, Palestine.
Number of Beneficiaries: 2117 families.
Date of the project: Sunday, September 4, 2011.
Student’s details: We have two schools for the elementary and preparatory stages, one for girls and the other for boys. The girls one consists of (1057) students, while the boy’s school consists of (1060) students, the total of them are (2117) students. Each school has the levels form 1-9 class. The details of
these schools for the academic year 2011/2012 are as follows:
| No. | Class | Section | Girls | Boys | Total |
| 1 | First | A, B, C | 115 | 102 | 217 |
| 2 | Second | A, B, C | 130 | 114 | 244 |
| 3 | Third | A, B, C | 100 | 114 | 214 |
| 4 | Fourth | A, B, C | 124 | 128 | 252 |
| 5 | Fifth | A, B, C | 114 | 145 | 259 |
| 6 | Sixth | A, B, C | 120 | 129 | 249 |
| 7 | Seventh | A, B, C | 124 | 107 | 231 |
| 8 | Eighth | A, B, C | 122 | 114 | 236 |
| 9 | Ninth | A, B, C | 108 | 107 | 215 |
| Total | 1057 | 1060 | 2117 | ||
Project materials for each student:
| No. | Type | No. |
| 1 | Bag | 1 |
| 2 | Stationery: Notebook | 12 |
| 3 | Ruler | 2 |
| 4 | Pencil | 12 |
| 5 | Color pencil | 12 |
| 6 | Pen | 1 |
| 7 | Stickers | 20 |
| 8 | Pencil sharpener | 2 |
| 9 | Book covers | 5 |
| 10 | Eraser | 2 |
| 11 | Draw notebook | 1 |
Project process:
- The society has announced about the project in the camp’s mosques two weeks before the starting of the schools.
- The society has been in touch with the school headmasters to have the student’s details.
- The delivery of the bags and stationery took place in the first day of the schools on Sunday, September 4, 2011.
Beneficiaries characteristics:
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 and for The Society for Rehabilitation Handicapped as well.
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. “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
