U.N.I.C.E.F. Cards Have Wide Range

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30534, 1 September 1964, Page 2

U.N.I.C.E.F. Cards Have Wide Range

The Mayor (Mr G. Manning) will have 22 designs and pictures by famous artists to choose from when he buys the first box of greeting cards to open this year’s U.N.I.C.E.F. greeting card fund-raising campaign in Christchurch today.

Last year U.N.I.C.E.F. (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) was able to realise a net profit of more than two million dollars from the sale of 34 million greeting cards, and this money is now being used to help children in underprivileged countries to find better health, nutrition and education. Over the years, the fund has. helped millions of children of all ages, races and colours, on every continent.

The proceeds from the box of cards sold (8s for ten cards), would provide enough penicillin to cure 20 children of yaws, a member of the Christchurch committee of U.N.I.C.E.F. (Mrs D. Guyton) said yesterday. The profit on., two boxes sold would buy enough antibiotic to cure eight children of trachoma; on 5 boxes, enough to protect 35 children against malaria for a year; and on ten boxes, sufficient money to provide intensive three-year treatment of leprosy for seven children. International Artists International artists from Vietnam, Sweden, France, Italy, Puerto Rico, the United States and other countries Shave donated their work to

be used on th* cards in the cause of U.N.I.C.E.F. work. Children at play in many countries are featured on several, including kyak racing in the Arctic, kiteflying in Japan, arid fishing in Paris. One of the most delightful is a little girl playing with a pin wheel. Called “Windplay,” and with the artist’s daughter as a model, it is by a Vietnamese painter.

The coloured cards are in both traditional and modern painting styles, and several have a religious theme that makes them ideal for use at Christmas. The cards, which are available either as notes or greeting cards, could be obtained from either 178 Manchester street, or by writing to Box 2382, Mrs Guyton said. This is the sixth year that the cards have been on sale in Christchurch.

Money raised In New Zealand was spent in New Zealand, and goods sent overseas, Mrs Guyton explained. Last year medicine and stainless steel milk-tankers were among the goods donat'd by New Zealand.