HELP FOR CHILDREN

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29250, 7 July 1960, Page 2

HELP FOR CHILDREN

“Need Has Never Slackened” • ’’The need for help in many countries has never slackened,” says the president of the North Canterbury branch of the Save the Children Fund (Miss M. G. Havelaar) in her annual report “Korea, Greece, Italy and lately Hong Kong are countries where poverty and consequent need seem to have called for our assistance during the whole of the period under review,” she says.. ;r " *‘Sponsorship has again been our main avenue of help in the last year, and looking back over the 13 years of our activities, we are more and more convinced; by the unfolding of the life histories of the children sponsored, that this personal touch between sponsors and childrren is the greatest fact in restoring to them a more permanent sense of security, and is often the first step to ultimate happiness and the ability to play an efficient part in. the life of their respective countries,” says Miss Havelaar. More than 400 children have been sponsored by the North Canterbury branch in the last year, and there is a long list of children waiting for a sponsor in Italy, Greece, Hong Kong, Korea, and several stateless orphaned children in many countries. Other projects of the Save the Children Fund included the endowment of a free bed in a hospital for physically handicapped children in Austria, and an annual rice bowl appeal for children in Hong Kong and Korea. Funds were provided for a beggar boys’ home, a tuberculosis sanatorium, and for education grants, in Korea. Food and general help was given to more than 100 families in Italy, and in an isolated village in that country children are being given a daily hot meal for four months.