Forum speakers will include Hashim Hani Shawa, chairman and general manager of the Bank of Palestine; Dr. Juan José Daboub, former managing director of the World Bank; Dr. Samir Hazboun, chairman of the Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Youssef Habesch, country officer with the International Finance Corporation; Faris Hadad-Zervos, adviser to the World Bank; and William Corcoran, president of American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA).
Twelve of AMEU's 14 board members were present for the occasion, including Rosmarie Sunderland, widow of Jack Sunderland, who accepted an award citing her late husband's "vision, leadership and humanitarian efforts." Sunderland also was a co-founder in 1968 of American Near East Refugee Aid, which operates in the occupied Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Jordan to provide relief supplies and collaborate with local institutions in education, health and community development projects.
AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) and the Intel Corporation today announced an agreement to build the "Intel Information Technology Center of Excellence" at the Islamic University of Gaza in the Gaza Strip. This agreement with ANERA expands Intel's comprehensive, multi-year "Digital Transformation Initiative for the Middle East" and underscores the company's long-term commitment to promote technology skills, knowledge transfer and economic development in the region. The Center is scheduled to begin construction in February 2006. The Intel IT Center of Excellence, the first of its kind in Gaza, will expand educational and employment opportunities, provide critical IT support for local businesses and organizations, and help stimulate the IT m...
The Arab American Institute Foundation's 2004 Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards ceremony was held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC on May 4, 2004. Among those who were honored at the event was world-renowned athlete Muhammad Ali who received the Award for Lifetime Achievement and the American Near East Refugee Aid with the Award for International Commitment.
A retired teacher of the Philadelphia School District, he was an animal lover and a humanitarian, supporting such organizations as the American Educational Trust (AET), the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), and the East Meets West Foundation.
American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) hosted its annual dinner Sep 17 in Washington DC, where it is based, on the theme, "education Creates the Future." A reception beforehand featured beautiful handicrafts and art to be bid on at a silent auction to raise funds for ANERA's ongoing projects to aid refugees. Founded in 1968, ANERA has worked with 3.2 million Palestinians under occupation, 60% of whom love below the poverty line on less than $2 a day. Last year ANERA distributed more than $13 million in medical and relief supplies, including daily nutritional snacks to preschoolers.
WHAT do you do when an ally keeps digging itself into a hole - and is pulling you in with it? I'm referring to the Israeli leadership, whose policies on the Palestinian issue - including the raid on the Gaza aid flotilla - are achieving the reverse of what's intended. A relentless focus on military tactics, to the exclusion of long-term political strategy, is isolating Israel and bolstering Hamas.
... Bill Corcoran, the president of ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid), who just returned from Gaz...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., June 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Life for Relief & Development with the cooperation of American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), has inaugurated two state-of-the-art medical centers within the Palestinian Territories. The medical centers, built in Jaba village in southwestern Jenin in the West Bank and in Jabaliya, which is in the northern area of Gaza Strip, will provide general and emergency related care in addition to social services that will further contribute to the development of the area. This includes a Primary Health Care Center for therapeutic care, emergency care, laboratory services, health education, safe motherhood programs, school health programs and home- based care. Also an EMS substation has been built to pr...
..., provide responsible stewardship for the American taxpayers' money and make foreign assistance more ... the former Soviet Union, assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, Andean counternarcot... has requested and Congress has supported a near doubling of the funding for foreign assistance sin... extensively with the American Near East Refugee Aid program, ANERA, if I'm not mistaken. If I'm a...
JERUSALEM, March 8 /U.S. Newswire/ - Today, in spite of continued violence and political turmoil, something positive is emerging from the Palestinian territories. Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, noted politician and president of Al Quds University, and Dr. Peter Gubser, president of American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), officially opened the Said T. Khoury IT Center of Excellence, a new, state-of-the-art information technology business and training center. The ceremony and tour of the facility was held at the new building located on the Palestinian university's main campus in Abu Dis, a suburb of Jerusalem. The IT Center holds special promise for Palestinians and opens up a wealth of economic opportunities," commented Dr. Nusseibeh. The violence erupting in Israel and the Palestinian territories...
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