$1M raised for aid to Kampuchea

Press, 5 December 1979, Page 27

$1M raised for aid to Kampuchea

Combined relief agencies lin New Zealand have now raised more than SI million Tor aid to Kampuchea, and distribution of food there is becoming more efficient. According to the public relations officer for the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund in Christchurch, Mrs Rosamund Baird, there are now 15 workers from Unicef alone distributing food in Phnom Penh. They are using 32 Land-rovers in the city and bicycles in the rural areas. Because the workmen at the port at Pnom Penh had been so malnourished, the unloading of supplies had been slow until now, Mrs Baird said, but forklift vehicles supplied by Unicef were now hastening the unloading of food. In addition, 185 trucks and 1115 Land-rovers had been unloaded to improve distribuition of supplies, including 117,000 tonnes of rice and I high-protein food. Unicef is still accepting ■ gifts for Kampuchean relief, in Christchurch, including at the A.N.Z. Bank in Hereford Street, where photographs by a Wellington couple, Ronald and Inga Woolf, of "Children in Happiness” are displayed. They were given to Unicef this year to mark the International Year of the Child.