RELIEF WORK IN EUROPE

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30041, 28 January 1963, Page 2

RELIEF WORK IN EUROPE

Save The Children Fund Aid

With the present appalling conditions in Europe resulting from the current freeze-up, the need for relief supplies of food and clothing in stricken areas is increasing, according to reports from the London headquarters of the International Save the Children Fund.

Opening the first meeting for the year of the fund’s North Canterbury branch, Miss M. G. Havelaar, the Dominion and branch president. urged members to prepare for a specially hard year’s work. In the high mountain regions of Europe and in the Himalayas blankets and warm clothing were needed. It was to be hoped that all members and well-wishers would make a special effort to assist by giving children’s woollen clothing, peggy square quilts, or loose knitting wooL

Other relief work carried out by the fund included help for 72.000 Moroccans made homeless by floods in one of the country’s richest land areas. The London headquarters sent immediately 1000 blankets, £l5OO for a milk feeding centre for children, one ton of clothing, and a consignment of tents.

Victims of recent floods in Greece have been sent quantities of powdered milk, tinned meat, sugar, clothing and blankets from the London headquarters emergency supply stores. In view of the present weather conditions throughout the Continent, it was imperative that the supplies be replenished rapidly, said Miss Havelaar.