Group To Work In Brazil

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31767, 26 August 1968, Page 14

Group To Work In Brazil

A W » mr r »J 4 Christchurch ejaetri* elan MU Iwrc next Sunday to join a volunteer youth team sponMgad by the Wbrld Council rf Churches Ecumenical Youth Service Oversew which wiU work or the building ef a model village In BragiL JtoisNrß.Rwdfctbeonly sen ef Mr and Mr* €■ G. Rapds, ef Morris Street. Christchurch. Ho is a former pupil of Shirley Boy* High School and has been as an electrician for a Christehurefa firm. Mr Rends will be on* of 17 young people in «*• team. The only other white member will be from Holland. Others are from Japan, OkiSr*’PWßM)te*A and** Latin Amenean countries. Among tb«m Will be agrieulturalists, a civil engineer and a clerk. There will also

>e three young women—a school teacher, a nurse, and * social workerThe village Is being built at Gurupl, about four degrees south nt the equator In the Amazon country. Juggle is being reclaimed for the project which has been under way for a year. Mr Rands will be in Brazil for about 10 months.

Mr Rands, who volunteered for the team through the National Council of Churches in New Zealand, will fly by way of the United States to Brazil, where the end of bis air trip will be *t Belem- It is the nearest city to the village, which Is about 12 hours away by busTn Belem Mr Rands will attend a yeqt> conference and else a language Institute as member* e» the team. «H of whom *p*ak English, have to s&wail Ih Belem they w|» else learn moro *»out the work that they will b*ve to do In an

Mr Rands was bidden farewell at the~morning service of the Durham Street Methodist Church yesterday when he spoke about the project. He said it was ironical that he should be a member of the team as there would be no electric power.

i- However, he said be might s be able to show the native >• people how to make power, i perhaps with a bicycle and a generator. t A presentation was made to f Mr Rands by the minister of e the church, the Rev. W. S. Dawson.