Loss, gain to V.S.A.
Many people, especially those who were in it, would regret the ending of the school-leaver Volunteer Service Abroad scheme, but the scheme had always recognised that it was working to remove the need for its own
existence, the chairman (Mrj D. C. Johnston) said in his report to the annual meeting on Thursday evening. The decline in requests for this type of volunteer work caused the V.S.A. council to discontinue the school-leaver section. “It is to be hoped that, with the end of the school-leaver scheme, the interest in V.S.A. evident in secondary schools will extend to ideas of service as adult volunteers,” said Mr [Johnston. I However, a milestone in i I 1974 had been the arrival in : New Zealand of the first Sgroup of reciprocal volunteers. Three Indonesian voluniteers were working on assign-; iments in Hamilton, and Wei-1 lington, and in Christchurch ■ V.S.A. has Mr Waspada Dawrin, a university graduate! from Djakarta teaching in the i social studies programmes of i several secondary and interI mediate schools.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33514, 20 April 1974, Page 7
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