C.O.R.S.O. Schemes In Many Countries

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32275, 18 April 1970, Page 12

C.O.R.S.O. Schemes In Many Countries

Forty-seven relief and development schemes in more than 15 different countries will benefit from money raised through the joint C.0.R.5.0. and United Nations Freedom from Hunger Campaign Committee in New Zealand this year.

The relief projects will consist of monetary grants for short-term needs such as maintenance of welfare services and medical needs. Material aid, clothing, and milk powder also comes under this category. Development projects, which are directed at removing the causes of poverty, hunger and want, will be mainly agricultural, but there will also be support for work in the field of education, nutrition training and trade training. The aim behind development projects is to make the project self-supporting, but with most relief projects there is little hope of seifsufficiency.

Twenty-five per cent of theincome available for grants will be spent on relief, 25 per cent will go to U.N.I.C.E.F. projects of a development type and the remaining 50 per cent will go to Freedom from Hunger Campaign projects. About half of the total income will go to United Nations and governmental agencies and about half will go to projects supported by voluntary agencies. About 60 per cent o.’ the grants will be

spent in New Zealand and the remainder overseas.

Among the relief projects to be supported are $l5OO for the Princess Tshai Hospital in Addis Ababa: $2OOO for the Heliopolis Old People’s Home in Greece: $1560 for the Stanes High School in India; $lOOO for the St Joseph’s Home and Nursery, Bombay; $lOOO for Tibetan refugees at homes in North India: $lOOO for medical work in Calcutta: $2500 for tuberculosis control work in Cheju Island, Korea: ($6700 to maintain vocational {training camps in the Middle East; and $2OOO for Y.W.C.A. I work with refugees in Pakis ! tan.

Included in the Freedom from Hunger Campaign pro- - jects will be a grant of $30,000 for the wholemilk biscuit programme. This pro gramme is now in its third year; more than 6000 children are receiving one biscuit daily through clinics, orphan ages, schools and other facilities in India, Ceylon, Korea and Nepal. A grant of $lO,OOO will be made to support vocational training work in Jerusalem. $22,666 will be given to the young farmers’ training centre in the Punjab, and $5OOO will be used to send dairy cattle to Tonga. In the youth projects will be $15,000 for the community education training centre, Suva; $23,000 for a rural youth development programme in Nepal: $5600 for development in Ceylon; and $3OOO for a college of tropical agriculture in Western Samoa. U.N.I.C.E.F. projects include four grants of $18,750 for the nutrition programmes in Korea, the Philippines and India and for rehabilitation in East Nigeria.