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===Relief and social services programme===
UNRWA provides food aid, cash assistance, and help with shelter repairs to these families. In addition, children from special hardship case families are given preferential access to the Agency's vocational training centres, while women in such families are encouraged to join UNRWA's women's programme centres. In these centres, training, advice, and childcare are available to encourage female refugees' social development. In Palestinian refugee society, families without a male head of household are often vulnerable. Those headed by a widow, a divorcee, or a disabled father often live in dire poverty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unrwa.org/what-we-do/relief-social-services|title=Relief & Social Services|website=UNRWA|access-date=8 April 2021|archive-date=14 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414205940/https://www.unrwa.org/what-we-do/relief-social-services|url-status=live}}</ref> These families are considered "hardship cases" and constitute less than 6% of UNRWA beneficiaries.

UNRWA has created community-based organizations (CBOs) to target women, refugees with disabilities, and to look after the needs of children. The CBOs now have their own management committees staffed by volunteers from the community. UNRWA provides them with technical and small sums of targeted financial assistance, but many have formed links of their own with local and international NGOs.