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- Reduction of Deprivation in Palestine Phase I: Women Child's Care Society
Reduction of Deprivation in Palestine Phase I: Women Child's Care Society
Palestine
Financing Type | Grants |
Category | Palestine |
Focus Area | Multisectoral |
Approved | 13.06.2006 |
Signed | 13.07.2006 |
Loan Administrator | Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development |
Organization | WOMEN CHILD CARE |
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 0.10 |
The Society was founded in 1944 as a welfare organization by a group of women with the cooperation of Beit-Jala municipality. It started with a clinic for mother and child health care and in 1948 opened a feeding center for 500 poor children. In 1962, it expanded its social and humanitarian services by establishing an embroidery workshop, a nursery and a training workshop for handicrafts to introduce income generating activities. The grant contributed to the establishment of a pastry production program.