Appeal: Web lets Palestinian children find world beyond refugee camp
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=477088
By Robert Fisk
31 December 2003
There are 32 children in the class, all Palestinian, all new experts
on the internet. Qassem Sa'ad, a small man with a neat brown
moustache, is proud of them and not without reason. Noisy they may be,
but enthusiastic they obviously are. And bright.
Where do they all come from, I ask? And the answer, of course, is not
Lebanon - even though they were born there. "Safad," says one.
"Hitin." "Tabaria." "Shafa'am." "Nimerin." "Sminya," says a little
girl wearing a scarf. All are towns that are - or were - in what is
present-day Israel.
These children - and dozens of others - are beneficiaries of a project
by Save the Children UK, one of the three charities this newspaper is
supporting in this year's Christmas Appeal for Forgotten Peoples.
Though they live in Ein al-Helweh, Sidon, the biggest and arguably the
poorest refugee camp in Lebanon, these children now have their own
website, called Eye-to-Eye. When The Independent correspondent admits
that he does not use the internet, there are roars of laughter.
Palestinians 1, Fisk 0.
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