AID FOR SLUM AREAS

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 24

AID FOR SLUM AREAS

C.0.R.5.0. Birthday Project

C.0.R.5.0. will celebrate its 21st birthday on December 6 by giving £20,200 for two projects to alleviate poverty and suffering in two of the world’s worst slums. The Janata Social Welfare Centre, Calcutta, will receive £10,200 to build and equip a medical hall to cope with the thousands of patients who go to the centre each month off the streets.

Hong Kong’s Kwai Chung Service Centre will receive £lO,OOO for building additions to enable it to extend its welfare work in and about the walled city of Kowloon—an area with so much misery and squalor it is known to C.0.R.5.0. workers as “the blackest spot on earth.” “These two projects will be a fitting climax to the generous giving to C.0.R.5.0. by New Zealanders during the last 21 years and will represent a real, if limited, contribution to the relief of hunger and want,” said C.O.R.S:O.’s national chairman (the Rev. J. G. Dunn). Reviewing his organisation’s record of service, Mr Dunn said: “It is not for our pride but for thanksgiving that we in this land of plenty have been able to share with others who desperately needed our help. “We can estimate the amount of money given to C.0.R.5.0. over the years—more than £4m. We can estimate the value of the clothing and other goods givenmore than £l2m. What we cannot estimate is the unseen result of these donations in the lives of children saved, refugees—the waiting people —lifted out of their despair, and hungry people freed from hunger and poverty. “But human need is still with us—constant, pressing and urgent. Whatever donations we receive for our birthday will be used to relieve this need.”