FREEDOM FROM HUNGER GRANT
Two Projects In India Benefit A grant of £5OOO has been made by the New Zealand committee of the Freedom from Hunger Campaign to two projects in the Baptist Union Missionary Society’s field in Tripura, India. The grant will be used for the building up of the Rural Reconstruction Fund in Tripura. and.for the establishment of a course in agriculture in St. Paul’s School, Agortala. The money will be paid over in Tripura itself, when it is required. It is hoped that the schemes will be self-supporting by 1967. New Zealand is spending £1 million a week on racehorses, and the Freedom From Hunger Campaign is asking for merely half that amount to be given over a period of 12 months, the Rev. J. E. Simpson, of the Wellington Central Baptist Church, told the annual meeting of the Baptist Union Missionary Society and Baptist Assembly. The assembly adopted his resolution to urge all churches and members to give fullest support to the Freedom From Hunger Campaign as part of their Christian stewardship of wealth and compassion to the needy.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29973, 7 November 1962, Page 11
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