Varied Articles Sought For Church Projects

Press, Volume C, Issue 29637, 6 October 1961, Page 15

Varied Articles Sought For Church Projects

Scrap iron, garden hoses, concrete mixers and luminous arrows are among the many articles sought by Miss Lois Meyhoffer. of the World Council of Churches, in Geneva, for the self-help projects she organises on behalf of the World Council of Churches’ division of InterChurch Aid and Service to Refugees. Other items which Miss Meyhoffer is seeking are reversible ploughs, blackboard chalk, pressure cookers and equipment for pyrography. Miss Meyhoffer’s project list for 1962 is now completed It includes 40 schemes to help church-sponsored enterprises, and the needy in Austria. Belgium. France. Greece, Italy, and North Africa. To furnish the asserted equipment that is needed Miss Meyhoffer is attempting to raise £19.500 from churches willing to heli. The scrap iron is for a blacksmith's shop, which a home for delinquent boys at Valence Drome, France, is eager to open. This home offers a new life to 47 boys who work or study outside The home has a waiting list of 100. Extension to House

The director of the home has put the boys to work building an extension to the house and constructing 4 a

workshop. This will need to be equipped with a blacksmith’s bellows, lathes, drills, an electric welder, an anvil, and iron bars and metal sheets For all this. Miss Meyhoffer is trying to raise £6OO

Miss Meyhoffer would like to find £ 150 to buy a con-crete-mixer which refugees in Linz. Austria, could borrow instead of having to hire a machine from a contractor. These refugees have jobs, but are living in emergency accommodation because they have no capital to acquire a home. They have started to build houses tor themselves with support from the World Council of Churches.

The luminous arrow is pari of the audio-visual equipment needed to teach languages to refugees from Bulgaria, Jugoslavia. Albania, and Algeria in the reception centre run by Cimade. the French Protestant relief agency, at Sucy-en-Brie. near Paris. Before these refugees can be integrated and take jobs they must learn French, and because of their limited education special techniques are required. These include the use of tape-recorders, projectors, films, slides, and ♦ luminous arrow. The cost of these is £255.