GREEK ORPHANS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 29, 25 September 1946, Page 5

GREEK ORPHANS

CARE OF CHILDREN DANNEVIRKE NURSE’S JOB “To be working with a floor under your feet is a real treat,” stated Miss Iris Lawson, Dannevirke, in a letter received recently by CORSO Headquarters, Wellington. Miss Lawson is a member of CORSO’s Public Health Team in Western Macedonia. At present she is stationed at Fiorina where she has been working in the local orphanage and preventorium. “It seems funny not to be with fowls and pigs picking about,” she continued. “We surely will appreciate decent conditions when we return to New Zealand. “The orphanage has 175 boys and though poor and frugally furnished, it is very well run and spotlessly clean. I carried out dental examinations for all the boys and did the necessary extractions. About 80 of them had been donated toothbrushes and their teeth were superior to those without them. The director of the orphanage said it was difficult to get any more as they were so expensive—from 7/- to 12/- each,” she said. In the preventorium, 300 children were looked after for three months. These were not bed cases but very weak and sick children who needed building up. They came from the surrounding villages and received the best of care. A sewing room was provided and women from the towns were making clothes for the children, from material donated by Americans. “When the children leave,” Miss Lawson said, “they will be permitted to take home with them all the clothes they have been wearing in the preventorium. This will include a frock, coat, pair of shoes, underwear and night attire.” For maintenance of the relief teams in Greece especially after UNRRA withdraws, and for sending skilled relief workers asked for ir China, CORSO is appealing for funds. Donations should be addressed to “CORSO Wellington” or forwarded to the nearest CORSO committee.