MISSION TO LEPERS
Appeal Starts Todav
The Mission to Lepers will launch its jubilee year appeal for funds today. The target for income from all sources for the vear has been set at £125.000, £25.000 of which is needed for a number of leprosy projects associated with New Zealand and New Zealand workers. Of this total, it is expected that regular subscribers, salvage proceeds and legacies will provide £BO 000. leaving £45.000 needed from the postal appeal The jubilee projects as they are called include a grant for a new hospital building at a leorosy home in Ethiopia when two New Zealanders work; a new leprosy control project in Tanganyika under the direction of a New Zealand bishop: two new buildings in Papua. New Guinea, one of which will be supervised by a New Zealand nurse: road access and equipment for a leprosy hospital in Thailand: a grant for a new leprosy colony in Viet Nam and another to help the Formosan Lenrosy Relief Association which has been formed recently. The average amount of the grants will be £’ooo.
Leaflets and reply paid envelopes will be distributed by the Post Office householder service.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29906, 21 August 1962, Page 15
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193MISSION TO LEPERS Press, Volume CI, Issue 29906, 21 August 1962, Page 15
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