CORSO AID TO GREECE

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26511, 28 August 1951, Page 2

CORSO AID TO GREECE

SHIP TAKES GOODS WORTH £13,000

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 27. When the Ambassador left Wellington this month for Port Said she carried 240 cases of goods valued at £13,000 dispatched by CORSO for distribution in Greece. Most of the goods had been collected in New Zealand towns that have adopted villages in need of help. Levin sent 18 cases to Drossia, Waipukurau 33 cases to Limbovon, and Nelson 95 cases for Estiriou. Milton, Foxton, Matamata, and Mosgiel sent gifts or undertook the adoption of villages, and Dunedin adopted two villages. CORSO has yet other villages awaiting adoption. This scheme for adopting war-damaged Greek villages is world wide, and in New Zealand CORSO acts ak clearing-house between those who wish to help the Greeks and the distributing organisation.

Inhabitants of the villages that are being helped have returned to shattered shells of homes without the most elementary tools, utensils, and furnishings, and when a New Zealand town adopts a Greek village it undertakes to provide many of the things needed. CORSO is provided with a file containing minute details of (he village and its needs. Second-hand articles in good condition are accepted, and most of those listed lie discarded about New Zealand homes. A family may adopt a family, and to help once is all that is necessary.

To the end of last March CORSO iad sent £542.000 worth of help to Jreece. In addition, New Zealand :ent clothing worth £lBB,OOO through UNRRA in 1945, and the proportion ot Yelp for Greece through the New Zealand appeal for the United Nations Children’s Fund"was £30,000.