C.O.R.S.O. Grant To Lepers
C.0.R.5.0. would grow £2OOO for a food growing project at a leprosy colony in the Chittagong hill tracts in East Pakistan, said the gene-ral-secretary of C.0.R.5.0. (the Rev. H. C. Dixon). The project, which will cost at least £BOOO, will also be helped by the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in Britain.
It involves clearing some jungle areas, digging out swamps and establishing small lakes for fish farming, terracing and irrigating hillside slopes for rice paddies, and developing more valuable strains of goats and poultry. “This timely help will save this very significant project and will be greatly appreciated by the missionaries and patients,” said the secretary of the Mission to Lepers in New Zealand (the Rev. M. Feist). Mr Feist said that the patients in the leprosy home and hospital, with the help of an agricultural expert. Dr. D. Stockley, were trying to help themselves by making an area of more than 25 acres of swamp and hill to produce more food.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31161, 10 September 1966, Page 21
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