C.O.R.S.O. HELP

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31384, 1 June 1967, Page 14

C.O.R.S.O. HELP

Appeal For More There would be no problem in disposing of 10 times the present income of C.0.R.5.0., the national chairman, (Mr J. R. Gaynor) said in Wellington at the annual meeting last week. “If New Zealanders cut down in their giving because of the current economic situation then people now starving overseas will have to go short,” he said. Mr Gaynor said that as New Zealand depended on agricultural exports for her very livelihood, it was in her own interest to help the develop ing countries to support themselves. ‘We are the best protein factory in the world but we need new markets and these people are often too poor to buy our produce.” Sixty-six projects in 23 countries had been earmarked in the 1967 Freedom From Hunger Campaign budget, according to the annual report. The allocations amount to £290,000 and will include £60,000 for applied nutrition projects in India, Fiji, Korea and Thailand, administered by the United Nations Children’s Fund.

Other large projects include the land resettlement of Rwandese refugees in Burundi, Africa; a land reclamation project in Korea; the provision of laboratory equip ment for poultry research; vaccines in Pakistan: an Indonesian sheep breeding project, and the training of Tibetan refugees in Nepal.