World Vision’s director to visit Ethiopia

Press, 8 November 1984, Page 8

World Vision’s director to visit Ethiopia

PA Auckland The top New Zealand administrator for World Vision will leave for droughtstricken Ethiopia next week. The aid organisation’s executive director, the Rev. Peter McNee, will leave Auckland on Wednesday and will be in Ethiopia for five days. He will make a film showing how money given by New Zealanders is being used there. World Vision opened an appeal after film showing the ravages of drought and famine in Ethiopia was screened on television two weeks ago. Since then $143,000 has been given. This is addi-

tional to the $l.l million raised by a two-hour television appeal on Sunday, September 9. Mr McNee said yesterday that this money was getting through to provide vital aid for the drought and famine victims. “The film will show what we are doing with money sent from here and from all over the world,” he said. The International Red Cross launched a worldwide appeal yesterday to raise $35 million to save 200,000 starving people in northern Ethiopia. The Red Cross in New Zealand has begun an advertising programme to publicise the appeal.