CARE Aims to Modernize Sinai Bedouins With Food For Work
CARE and the Jerusalem government promote a program to shift Bedouins from nomadic, smuggling focused life to a wage based system. Projects fund roads clinics schools and agriculture. a mobile clinic serves 78 villages weekly while CARE rations are resold locally. The effort, backed by American and Canadian donations, distributed 62 500 rations monthly in Sinai from 1967 to 1971 and covers the Gaza Strip and West Bank as well.