Australia Keeps Refugees Clean
SYDNEY. Australia is sending six million cakes of soap a year to the Middle East to help keep a million refugees clean. The soap, which is sent by the Australian branch of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, goes to Arab refugees living on and around the Gaza Strip. Until 1956, Australia’s contribution to the work of Relief and Works Agency, set up in 1948 to help families who lost their homes and means of livelihood during tlie struggle to set up the new Israeli State of Palestine, consisted mostly of powdered milk and flour. But the occasional consignment of soap proved so welcome that the agency’s headquarters in Beirut asked the Australian branch to spend its entire allocation on soap.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30366, 15 February 1964, Page 18
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