Corso and the World's Needs
EW ZEALANDERS are generous and easy going. They do not question Corso’s claim to appeal each year for money or for clothes no longer used; but neither do they, as a rule, inquire closely into the need for the annual campaien. It is going to take many years to rehabilitate victims of war in Europe and Korea and to redeem the desolation of years. The nation-wide poverty of whole classes in the East is a problem which the Western wor!d is only beginning to take seriously and attempt to solve. Difficult climatic conditions, causing disasters which occur with heartbreaking regularity, are going to take all the resources of science and technology to cure; and the cure will take time. Meanwhile the people must be kept alive and given some help for the future. Already Corso has done much. Up until last December the practical assistance sent overseas was conservatively
estimated at £700,000-a lot of money from a small country. Assistance is given where it is most needed; in food for the hungry, medicine for the sick and undernourished, clothes for the ragged. While short-term aid is being continued, Corso is also promoting selfhelp policies. Irrigation pumps have been put in so that more crops can be grown when the monsoon rains have failed in India: (and uneven distribution of the rains can cause as many. misfortunes as complete failure). The average > villager is working on too small a scale to enable him to offset ‘these vagaries of climate without help from irrigation schemes. Nurses from India and Pakistan are now being given further training in New Zealand under the auspices of Corso. What can people do about it? They can make themselves conversant with the facts-many of which may be unwelcome. It is disconcerting to have to realise that while we are enjoying a high standard. of living people across the world are dying of cold and hunger. . Corso is not just a charity. It is nonpolitical and undenominational, and in the final analysis its success depends on the support of all people of good will, |
Irene
Adcock
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 25
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