UNESCO APPEAL

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25180, 10 May 1947, Page 10

UNESCO APPEAL

HELP FOR DEVASTATED SCHOOLS A world-wide campaign to raise 100,000.000 dollars in money and equipment to restore the ruined educational systems of devastated countries has been inaugurated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation. The requirements are chiefly simple classroom commodities such as pencils, pens, notebooks, drawing .paper, paints, and Ch Mr Bernard Drzewieski, chief of the reconstruction and rehabilitation section, has given examples of the handicaps experienced in some of these countries. . , , In Jugoslavia primary schools there is one pencil available for every 50children. Many children can not go to school at all for lack of clothes and shoes. In Greece the salary of a teacher is about 6d a day, and most of them are obliged to give up their teaching jobs to find work in which they can keep themselves alive. In Ethiopia as a result of the Italian measures td wipe out every single Ethiopian with any claim to instruction at all, the number of teachers with foreign qualifications was reduced trom 135 to 27. » At the University of Cracow, Poland, students are sleeping three or four or five to a single bed, which means that every third or fourth night any particular student has a chance to sleep in a bed. In the Philippines 95 per cent ’ .of all the libraries were completely destroyed.