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Children from the Ein el Helwe camp in Palestine
Chatila camp near Beirut
Children play in the rubble
Girls from Jane's class
Jane and Zahia
Girl's traditional dancing
Scottish dancing in Palestine

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Jane Delafons used to be a personnel manager in a PR company, until she met a man at a wedding who was passionate about the plight of the Palestinian refugees who live in camps in the Lebanon.

So inspired was she, that she decided to find out more and then go and do something about it.

Recently, Jane spent several months in Ein el Helwe, the largest of the camps, with over 70,000 registered refugees.

Here she realised that the best way she could help was to teach English...


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