PBH Will Send 20-30 Students To Work in Jordan for Summer; Project Sponsored by UN, CARE

Phillips Brooks House, in conjunction with CARE and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine, will send 20 to 30 students to Jordan this summer to help build a village for displaced Bedouins now living in that country.

The students will be aiding and overseeing construction of a social center, clinic, school, and irrigation system, in addition to housing facilities. They will also teach the prospective villagers, who will do the bulk of the actual building, "how to live in the village," according to Peter A. Flynn '63, head of the project.

The village is designed to re-settle 300 Bedouins, a nomadic people whose native territory has been divided into the present states of Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. It is the first of many to be built for the relocation of the five million Bedouins now in Jordan, Flynn said.

Bedouin foremen and work leaders will be trained by CARE and the United States Overseas Mission in Jordan to work with the volunteers in supervising the actual construction. The second phase of the project, instruction of the Bedouins in the use of such unfamiliar facilities as a social center and clinic, will be done by the students in informal classes under CARE supervision.

Financing for Project Jarba, the area of southwestern Jordan where the group will work, is being handling by the Jordanian government, the Jordanian Red Crescent (Mohammedan counterpart of the Red Cross), and CARE. The Jordanian government had originally approached CARE to supervise the building of the villages before PBH, on the recommendation of UNRWA, became involved in the project.

Training here for the students will begin after final selection Dec. 20. Anyone in the University is eligible to apply.

The first phase will be an intensive course in Arabic, and seminars in Middle Eastern history, politics, economics, and sociology under the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

The second phase will be pragmatic training in specific jobs and general work orientation, and in living and working with the Bedouin people.

Project Tanganyika, which sent 20 students to Africa last summer, will be run this year on a smaller scale. According to Haven C. Roosevelt '62, head of the Project, this year's group will include 10 students who intend to teach in Tanganyika for a full year, and five going just for the summer.