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News Release Immediate Release


May 12, 2011 Contact:
Laurie Kassman/DC
202 266 9724
Hanan Shasha/Amman
9626 464 0431

ANERA Helps Disabled in Madaba Camp, Jordan

ANERA is pleased to announce the launch of a project in Jordan to help disabled children in
Madaba Camp and the surrounding area. The year-long, three-phase program will identify
cases of visual and hearing impairment and other physical disabilities and provide appropriate
diagnostic and rehabilitation services. The project also includes an important awareness
campaign and training workshops for parents.

ANERA is developing the program in cooperation with the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf
and its service providers. HLID is a leader in the field of deaf education. ANERA is currently
partnering with HLID for a similar program in Sukhneh Camp.

Madaba Camp, located 45 kilometers from Amman, was established in 1956 and is home for
some 5,000 refugees. An additional 15,000 persons live nearby. Health services at the Madaba
Camp Health Center run by the Ministry of Health, Near East Council of Churches
Mother/Child Center, and the Islamic Association's clinic for mother and child health care.
But, there is no community rehabilitation center for the disabled in the camp. The nearest
center is four kilometers away.

In addition to aiding the disabled in Madaba and Sukhneh Camps, ANERA-Jordan has
partnered with the Jordan Breast Cancer Program to extend a Breast Cancer Awareness
project to Wehdat Camp for more than 7,000 women and to Al Hussein Camp for 6,000
women.

About ANERA-Jordan:
ANERA opened an office in Jordan in 2004 to expand its programs and outreach in a country
that has historically provided a safe haven for refugees in a highly troubled region. Today, the
Amman office manages programs that deliver educational, health and material assistance to
families in poor communities and refugee camps.

About ANERA
For more than 40 years, ANERA has been a leading provider of development, health,
education and employment programs to Palestinian communities and impoverished families
throughout the Middle East. In FY 2010, the relief and development agency delivered more
than $50 million of programs to the people of the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon and Jordan.

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