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[Abu Dhabi, 16 March 2009] Dr. Ali Abdullah Al-Kabi, Chairman of the Board of the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent (UAERC) and Mr. Peter Ford, Representative of UNRWA's Commissioner-General, signed today two agreements for the rehabilitation of shelters and relief activities in Palestinian camps in Lebanon. UAERC has pledged US$ 5 million to rehabilitate shelters in Bourj El Shemali camp in South Lebanon. The project will improve the physical condition of 343 shelters identified as the most structurally unsound, hazardous and unhygienic among the many dilapidated shelters in Burj el-Shemali camp. The project comes under the Camp Improvement Initiative, an initiative launched by the Lebanese Government and UNRWA in 2006, to improve the living conditions of Palestine refugees in Lebanon’s 12 refugee camps. Full press release here To contact United Arab Emirates Red Crescent (UAERC), E-mail: [email protected] To contact the UN OCHA Regional office of the Middle East and Northe Africa and Centeral Asia in Dubai, E-mail: [email protected] Further Information: ** LEBANON: Funding struggle slowing cluster bumb clearnace in south (08/02/2009) ** LEBANON: Iraqi refugee children in Lebanon hope only to survive (21/06/2008) ** UAE: Child Rights References in the working group of the UPR (February 2009)