FIRST SHIPMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26774, 18 May 1948, Page 7

FIRST SHIPMENT

CHILDREN’S EMERGENCY FUND DRY MILK FOR CHINA The first shipment of food for the children of China from the United Nations International'Children’s Emergency Fund left the San Francisco Bay recently on the New World Victory, of the Pacific Far East Line, states the South-western Pacific office of the fund. This shipment, which comprised 320.0001 b of dry whole milk, is part of the initial £312,500 supply programme approved for China by the fund’s Executive Board at Lake Success. This shipment will make more than 1,000,000 quarts of reconstituted milk, to be used solely for infant feeding from distribution centres in Shanghai, Nanking, Tsingtao, Peiping. Tientsin, and Canton. The children to be reached under this initial programme are in three groups:—(l) Abandoned children found in the streets; (2) children and pregnant and nursing women in the refugee camps; and (3) children in large impoverished families. A United Nations children’s relief mission is now in China, working with a special committee on the development of a programme for all geographic areas, on the basis of their relative needs. This committee comprises representatives of the Chinese Ministries of Health and Welfare and voluntary organisations, representatives of other United Nations organisations in China, and foreign relief agencies, including United Services for China and the National Catholic Welfare Conference.