VALUED SOCIAL SERVICE

Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 6

VALUED SOCIAL SERVICE

A Girls Week Campaign is now in progress to raise funds to support the work of the Young Women's Christian Association. It promises to do much more than that'by opening the eyes of the public to the value of the Y.W.C.A. and the necessary social service which it is seeking to perform. The-association suffers, as many established organisations do, from being well established. People seldom pause to ask what it does or how,it does\it. -Tfaey'take it for granted. In the campaign they are being told what the association does and, also, what great opportunities are presented for extending its useful activities., Those who read or hear of this work will perceive how essential it is. For young girls and older girls, girls in business and girls travelling, the Y.W.C.A. gives useful service. As Miss Stevenson pointed out in her/address to the Rotary Club, the organisation of injdustry_ has changed much since the

17th century. The home is no longer the centre of varied industries. There is no home-spinning and weaving. Even the preparation of food is now in part a factory industry. The women who were formerly fully occupied in homecrafts now follow these crafts away from the home. The social organisation must needs be remodelled to fit economic and industrial lines of life, and provide for the girl who is, perforce, away from home influence for much of her working lime. This the Y.W.C.A. endeavours to do. It seeks to help, to sustain, and to guide, to provide occupation, training, recreation, and not least of all—a Christian ideal in life. How this is done, the public are invited to see and hear. The organisers of the campaign are eager to explain the methods, confident that when these are understood the public will make a generous response to a request for means.