TO SAVE THE CHILDREN
6e O feed the hungry, to nurse the sick and to relieve the distressed." These are the terms of the charter of the Save the Children Fund, which, started 25 years ago, has worked for the relief of child distress throughout the world. After the last war, the fund provided help for many thousands of children in Central and Eastern Europe, in Northern France, and in the Near East, and was responsible for the organisation of relief during the famine in Russia in 1921. Its present. post-war plans include the sending of relief units to Europe in co-operation with the British and Allied Governments, and of mobile kitchens which are now being used to feed the evacuated children in Britain. Junior Clubs and Play Centres, Nurseries and Nursery Schools are just part of the organisational work*of the Save the Children Fund, which has active branches in most countries. In 1922 a local committee was formed in Wellington through the efforts of Mrs. Margaret Stables, who is still actively connected with the work, and this movement, which was extended to the whole Dominion, was responsible for the sending of £47,000 to London for .relief purposes. By a special effort in July this year, Chilton St. James School at Lower Hutt was able to hand over to the fund £280-the total proceeds of a sale of work.
With the ravages of this war, however, the child refugee problem is now more acute than ever, and to continue the work of the fund, to provide doctors, nurses, radiographers and specially trained social workers and teachers to work in the liberated countries, the support of the public as a whole will be needed. Mrs. Stables is still the representative of the fund in New Zealand, and was thanked personally for her work by the Earl of Listowel, a member of the council of the fund in London, on his recent visit to New Zealand. Anyone willing to help should communicate with Mrs. Stables at No. 6 Grass Street, Oriental Bay, Wellington.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 280, 3 November 1944, Page 15
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