GREEK REFUGEES
3500 NOW IN BELGIAN CONGO
MAINLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN
No fewer than 3500 Creek refugees have been settled by the Belgian au-
thorities in the healthier parts of the
Belgian Congo, where the necessary camps, hospitals and schools have been built.
Eighty per cent of the refugees are
women and children, wives and families of Greek soldiers fighting in the Middle East. The men are either invalids or unfit for military service. Greek teachers have been sent to teach the 500 children in the schools, and
four priests of the Greek Orthodox Church and five Greek doctors look after the spiritual and physical wellbeing of their fellow-countrymen. The cost of housing and feeding the refugees is undertaken gratuitously by the Belgian Government for the duration of the war.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32315, 17 September 1943, Page 3
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130GREEK REFUGEES Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32315, 17 September 1943, Page 3
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