Indian Head Of A.C.W. To Visit

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32234, 28 February 1970, Page 2

Indian Head Of A.C.W. To Visit

The world president of the Associated Country Women of the World (Mrs Aroti Dutt) will begin a tour of New Zealand on March 12, when she will arrive in Christchurch from Sydney.

Her visit will be sponsored by the co-ordinating , committee of Country Women’s Institutes and the Women's Division of Federated Farmers. Country Girls’ Clubs are also associated with Mrs Dutt’s national tour.

Mrs Dutt, who graduated with honours in philosophy from the Calcutta University, is a prominent welfare worker in West Bengal. She says she “married into social service.” Her mother-in-law, Saroj Dalini Dutt, founded the country women's organisation in Bengal which car'ries her name. Widely Travelled

The only child of a memjber of Parliament, Mrs Dutt travelled widely in India before her marriage. For a time Mrs Dutt was secretary of the Saroj Nalini Industrial School and Teachers’ Training College in Calcutta. She also worked with the Social Welfare Board and was in charge of two rural centres outside Calcutta.

In 1957 she represented the Saroj Nalini Dutt Association at the A.C.W.W. conference in Ceylon. I«iter she was awarded a scholarship to study at the Institute of Social Studies at The Hague, where her thesis won her a diploma with credit. Since her appointment as

world president of the A.C.W.W., Mrs Dutt has represented her organisation at international meetings and has visited many women’s groups. Bengal Project She has been largely responsible for a project in West Bengal to spread education and train village I women in literacy, home economics, nutrition and home management. This three-year project was: run by the A.C.W.W., the! Lady Aberdeen Fund and the Freedom From Hunger Campaign. Though the three-year period is over, training is being continued, with help from nutrition experts, doctors, health officers, and experts in food preservation and cooking. The A.C.W.W. represents 64m coiuntrywomen in 65 countries. It works for improved living conditions and better homes, and encourages women to take thear place io community life. While in Christchurch Mrs Dutt will be given a mayoral reception and will meet members <rf the Country "Women’s Institutes, the Women’s Divis- ( ion of Federated Farmers, 1 and Country Girls’ clubs from Canterbury, Marlborough. Nelson, and Westland. Iron CI ean i n g.—Clean blocked vents in the base of your steam iron with pipe cleaners. They will not damage the metal.