HELPED BY APPEAL

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30951, 6 January 1966, Page 10

HELPED BY APPEAL

People in many countries will receive help from the New Zealand National Council of Churches’ Christmas Appeal.

Last year a total of £65.376 from 1164 congregations was received. This year 85 copies of a coloured film story, “Ease Their Burdens.” made up of coloured slides illustrating some of the projects the appeal aims to support, have been sent to ministers and members of the N.C.C. This year the first £2OOO

! will be sent to Vietnam for emergency relief. Further grants may be made later if the response to the appeal makes this possible. Resettlement programmes throughout the world are supported by the New Zealand Council of Churches.

The photograph shows refugees beside a tube well with a concrete drain pit. which was established by the Bengal Refugee Service for Indians who had crossed the border into Pakistan. New Zealanders sent £5OO to assist in the resettlement of refugees in this area.

Kanita, a home for former prostitutes in Japan, will receive a grant of £5OO. A great deal of work is being done in Japan by Christian and other agencies to assist in the rehabilitation of prostitutes who are physically or mentally defective and cannot be adequately refitted for normal community life. A protective colony will be established 80

miles south of Tokyo, where these women may live for the rest of their lives. Considerable help is available from the government and this project is run by a minister of [the United Church of Japan. ( Underprivileged Negroes in (the Mississippi Delta will be sent £250. This will help to provide a ministry of direct relief and to develop the remedial self-help programmes such as dressmaking. Of special interest to New Zealanders are projects where New Zealanders are already stationed. One is the Madras Christian College in India where a young New Zealand agriculturist, Mr John Hayman. is on the staff. Last year the N.C.C. made a grant of £lOOO to the College and a further £5OO will be sent in 1966.