20% Rise In Gifts
A 20 per cent increase in church and individual giving to the Christmas appeal of the National Council of Churches had been shown to the end of January, compared with giving in the previous year, said the council’s director of inter-church aid (Mr F. G. Heard) yesterday. “We are only one-third of the way to our target of 5160.000, but if this trend is maintained we shall be able to get our aid back to its predevaluation level,” he said. “The response to our Biafra relief fund is also very encouraging.” Mr Heard said that a big problem he faced was to provide suitably qualified persons to serve overseas. A builder or an engineer for a refugee programme in India was urgently needed, as well as a business administrator for refugee self-help industries that had been set up. In Laos, doctors, nurses, agriculturists, women’s welfare . workers and resettlement officers were urgently needed to work among Vietnamese refugees.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31902, 1 February 1969, Page 1
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