ON THE SPOT WITH UNRRA
SELF-HELP AT SALONIKA
In view of the recent arrival in Salonika of the CORSO relief team from New Zealand the following eye-witness report from an UNRRA worker on conditions at a Displaced Persons’ Camp in that part of Greece is of special. interest:
"WE are passing an average of only about 60 to 80 people a week through the Camp now. The movement of foreigners from here to Athens has been stopped for the time being for lack of space in the Athens camps. We are holding about 80 foreigners semi-permanently. It is estimated that there are
only about another 6,000 people to come. The camp buildings are becoming enormously improved. Our roof has been repaired, the inside has been redistempered throughout, window frames and glass have been put in and doors will be following any day. One of our staff has started something of a bed industry,’ and with refugee labour, lumber from the docks, and old tent material, he has been turning out four or five beds a day, which we are giving to old people, pregnant women, near-hospital cases and others for whom sleeping on the floor is more of a hardship than for most."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 354, 5 April 1946, Page 16
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203ON THE SPOT WITH UNRRA New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 354, 5 April 1946, Page 16
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