VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24389, 16 October 1944, Page 3

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

RELIEF SERVICE IN EUROPE A call to members, past and present, of the Girl Guide Movement, to volunteer for relief work in Europe under the direction of UNRRA is urgently made. All young women over the age of 18 and who are physically fit and have certain qualifications may volunteer and take the training, but probably only those over 21 years will be sent abroad. The qualifications necessary are humanitarian motives , and some guide qualifications of ability, initiative, and reliability, and camping experience; also a knowledge of one or more of the following: nursing, medicine, vehicle maintenance, cookery, agriculture, child welfare, dietetics, occupational therapy, languages, or experience in welfare, emergency feeding or >first-aid work. The work abroad will probably be organising camps for_ those trying to return to their homes, manning wayside first-aid posts, cooking, helping in remote villages and on farms, looking after children, and doing any other jobs volunteers are asked to do. They must expect to live under hard and possibly dangerous conditions without any of the amenities of civilisation and among those people suffering in mind, body, and spirit. An applicant must have perfect physical fitness. Anyone interested should apply to the Girl Guides Association, Dominion Headquarters, P.O. Box 147, Hastings.