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 A Strong Commitment to the
COVER PHOTO: MICHAEL BISCEGLIE
 
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With extensive programmatic experience and policyexpertise, today
Save the Children
is
a leader andan innovator in the Middle East
, earning therespect and trust of local communities, partners, andgovernment ministries that collaborate with us onbehalf of over a half-million of the region’s neediestresidents—
children and their mothers
.
Save the Children
has been addressing the critical needs of children and families in the Middle Eastsince 1953, when our work in
Lebanon
began. That work expanded to the
 WestBank
and
Gaza
 
in the 1970s and to
Egypt
and
 Jordan
in the 1980s.
In the Middle East, where
Save the Children has worked for nearly50 years
, the children and families most in need face . . .
•Poverty and lack of services to the poor, especially among Palestinian refugees and other displaced persons.•Inadequate educational systems, with poor teaching methodologies, outdated curricula, large classrooms,and minimal recreational facilities.•Unsafe water and sanitation systems.•Rural/urban migration because of unemployment or unrest, separating and displacing families.•A rapidly growing youth population.•Limited but increasing citizen participation in governance.•Political unrest, economic instability, and violence, especially in the West Bank and Gaza.
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