PROJECT IN VIETNAM

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31116, 20 July 1966, Page 8

PROJECT IN VIETNAM

Convalescent Home A grant of £lOOO recently made by the New Zealand Save the Children Fund towards the fund’s project in Vietnam will be used to help establish a convalescent home at Qui Nan for children injured in the fighting. News of progress on the new centre has been received by the fund’s representatives in New Zealand from Miss B. Stevenson, of England, who has been staying with New Zealand nurses in Qui Nan while overseeing establishment of the new project. Miss Stevenson reported that at the moment the centre’s ground was being prepared by Viet Cong prisoners who were working with good will, and appeared to be enjoying the work. After the opening of the recovery centre for injured children, the fund intended to set UP a training centre for older orphans and young widows, teaching dressmaking and the local crafts. Attached to this venture would be a creche and kindergarten, and a child welfare centre. Instruction in child care and feeding was urgent as some of the war widows were only 15 years of age, Miss Stevenson said.

“The problems facing the Save the Children Fund at Qui Nan are a tremendous challenge, and probably one of the greatest the fund has ever faced,” said Miss Stevenson.