OPERATION 21 HELP
Filipino To Visit N.Z.
Dr. Juan Flavier, assistant to the president of the Philippines Rural Reconstruction Movement, will visit Christchurch on May 9, to meet young people who supported his organisation through the C.0.R.5.0. Operation 21 scheme last year. During his week’s visit to New Zealand, being made on the way home from a study tour of the United States, Dr. Flavier will also visit Auckland, Waiuku, Hamilton, Putaruru, Wellington and Dunedin.
Last year young people In New Zealand raised more than £5300 to enable young Filipinos specially trained in fighting poverty, disease, illiteracy and civic inertia to work for a period of three years each among the people of the rural vilages in the Nueva Ecija provinces* About 8700 will benefit from help offered by Operation 21. The scheme began when the 'president of Operation 21 in New Zealand (Mr B. Devenport) and the president of the Philippines Rural Reconstruction Movement (Gregorio Feliciano) met at the Young World Assembly in Rome in October, 1965.
The reconstruction movement was formed in 1952 in an effort to overcome the poverty of the large peasant population in the Philippines.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31360, 4 May 1967, Page 14
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