ON THE SPOT WITH UNNRA
HE following is an account of experiences at a domestic training school for girls in Macedonia (where two of CORSO’S relief teams have just started work on behalf of UNRRA). It is written by a member of the staff at the school, which is a new experimenial venture run by the Friends’ Relief Setvice:
OVER INTO MACEDONIA
EFORE our arrival the premises were occupied by an army of bugs, which have mainly been exterminated with DDT, while the few survivors are probably lying
dormant till the spring. There is water and electricity laid on. The kitchen has been fitted up with cookers of the "field kitchen" type, made from simple tin containers. They are now working very well, but we had difficulties at the beginning. The school started with a certain amount of chaos, as girls had to be taken in before the premises were really ready for them, for fear of their getting snowed up in their villages. This resulted in an intermingling of smoky boilers, weeping, homesick new arrivals, bugs and DDT, taps which would not turn off, and drains stopped up. But gradually since then the boilers have been improved, the carpenters who were here have worked their way out of the building, and the girls have settled in. At present we have 35 girls and hope soon to have 40. They are a nice set, aged mostly between 14 and 16 years. They come from many different Macedonian villages and a variety of different homes and backgrounds and there is considerable disparity in their abilities and intelligence. There is now a teal community spirit among them and they work and play together very happily, which is all the more surprising and encouraging when one realises that the parents of some have actually been murdered by members of the political party supported by the parents of others in the recent political strife. Most of them are already looking decidedly fatter and better now than when they came. But nearly all are physically underdeveloped.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 362, 31 May 1946, Page 32
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341ON THE SPOT WITH UNNRA New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 362, 31 May 1946, Page 32
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