C.O.R.S.O. Appeal

Press, Volume C, Issue 29499, 28 April 1961, Page 12

C.O.R.S.O. Appeal

C.0.R.5.0. collectors will try to call at every home tomorrow for donations of money to support the organisation's 1961 programme, which is under three heads: relief, refugees, rescue from hunger. Projects in the Middle East, Austria, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, and Korea include building concrete shelters for refugees in Jordan; rehousing on the mainland a fishing community living in primitive conditions on an island near Hong Kong: settling 100 Chinese refugee families in Brazil; providing wells in Indian villages. Besides such special projects the programme includes the maintenance of earlier C.0.R.5.0. programmes among the needy, especially among refay< The relief programme is both direct—such as the provision of milk powder for children and babies—and indirect, such as the rehabilitation of refugees by education and trade training. For all this work C.0.R.5.0. is asking for £125.000 CORSO. (the New Zealand Council of Organ-

isations for Relief Service Overseas) is an officiallyaccredited body formed after the last war to coordinate New Zealand assistance for overseas relief. The 40 organisation* which make up its membership cover most shades of opinion in New Zealandreligious, political, and social Adult organisations and young people’s organisations belong to it C.0.R.5.0. relies almost entirely upon voluntary helpers; it is a matter for justifiable pride with C.0.R.5.0. that it keeps its costs down to 3 per cent, of the value of gifts received. The value of this feat of economic organisation is emphasised when it is remembered that in a separate appeal at a different time of the year collects and afterwards dispatches overseas a very large quantity of good used clothing. Last year s collection of used clothing was valued conservatively at £BOO,OOO. New Zealanders recognise that, with its efficient and sympathetic organisation, C.0.R.5.0. is an admirable

channel through which they may help, from their own plenitude, at least the most urgent cases of need in less fortunate countries C.0.R.5.0.’s voluntary workers will undoubtedly meet with the usual generous response when they call at New Zealand homes tomorrow.