PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30278, 2 November 1963, Page 2

PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN

Service Projects Planned

The new Association of Presbyterian Women is to be asked to initiate service projects to give assistance in Indonesia and Calcutta. The Presbyterian Women’s Fellowship decided at its last annual meeting yesterday to recommend to the new association that New Zealand Presbyterian women initiate a service project for 1964, the area of assistance to be the Immanuel Hospital in Bandung, Indonesia. .

Because of shipping difficulties betwen New Zeeland and Indonesia it was also decided to -recommend that the new association have a second project in Calcutta. The women propose to make bed linen and pyjamas for the Immanuel Hospital. It had been reported that there was only one sheet to a bed in the 400-bed hospital and that patients lay on rubber sheets while the others were being laundered. The second project will be to “clean up” the Sealdah railway station in Calcutta, where thousands of refugees are camped. The World Council of Churches has undertaken to rehouse and clothe the refugees, and the Association of Presbyterian Women could send warm clothing and bedding, the meeting recommended. The Women’s Fellowship made its recommendations after a successful service project last year to aid Algerian refugees. Many bales of adults’ and children’s clothing were sent, and women’s groups made and collected hundreds of blankets and quilts. Money was raised to purchase new blankets. Mrs L. E. C. McCaskey presided at the meeting.