The Catalan Development Cooperation Agency (ACCD) has signed an agreement to provide 430,000 Euros to support UNRWA's Community Mental Health Programme in the West Bank, during a signing ceremony attended by UNRWA's Commissioner General Karen AbuZayd and the Vicepresident of Generalitat of Catalonia, Rt.Hon. Josep-Lluis Carod-Rovira, in Amman.
This Agreement is intended to promote education in mental health and general welfare of Palestine refugees in the West Bank, through psycho-social support and counselling services to children, youth and parents.
This contribution to UNRWA's 2008 Emergency Appeal comes as part of a Framework Agreement signed in Barcelona earlier this year, thus extending the collaboration initiated between UNRWA and the ACCD in 2004. The ACCD has pledged a contribution to UNRWA of EUR 470,000 for 2009.