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Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization signs a memorandum of understanding with UNRWA for the establishment of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Refurbished Computer
Amman - 15 December 2009 - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org) signed on December 13, 2009 a memorandum of understanding with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to launch the establishment of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Refurbished Computer (TAGRC) center in the Gaza Palestinian refugee camp near Jerash, Jordan.
The MOU signing occurred during a special ceremony held at the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business/German Jordanian University in Amman. The MOU was signed on behalf of the TAG-Org by Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, and on behalf of the UNRWA, by Mr. Richard Cook, director of the UNRWA operations in Jordan.
In his speech on the occasion, Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh expressed his pleasure on the signing of the MoU marking the start of the project to support TAG-Org?s efforts in cooperation with the UNRWA to build capacity in the Palestinian refugee camps starting with the Jerash camp, and said "I am happy with the cooperation with the UNRWA as I am a Palestinian refugee, and I was the first to win a scholarship from the UNRWA to study at the American University in Beirut. I am proud of what my Organization has done and is doing to support and assist the Palestinian refugees." He commended the generous support and attention given by the Jordanian government to support Palestinian refugee communities since the start of their cause in general and to support this project in particular. He specifically thanked the former Minister of Information and Communications Technology, Eng. Basem Al Rousan, who urged the ministries to present all their used computers for the project.
On his part, Mr. Richard Cook also expressed his pleasure with the signing of the MOU and the cooperation with Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization, and he described the project, saying, "This project is of particular significance because of its focus on Jerash Camp and its ex-Gazan population, whose socio-economic conditions are so poor and opportunities for further education and employment are so limited."
TAGRC center aims at re-activating the used computers; building local capacity in information and communications technology; providing refurbished and updated computers in the form of grants to schools and low- and middle-income groups in the camps and remote villages; and
providing software and localized educational e-content through cooperation with software vendors and digital libraries.