Ind.. in cooperation with the International Union of Electrical. Radio. and Machine Workers. Virtually all sections of the community are raising funds for the IUE refugee resettlement village. to help the innocent victims of the Vietnamese conflict rebuild their. lives. During the last week of April. civic and religious groups. industrial and labor organizations. high school and college student governments. Boy Scouts and other local Fort Wayne groups will join the IUE in soliciting funds for the refugee village. A rally will be held on May 1. Law Day. sponsored by the IUE with the Fort Wayne Bar Association. The 15.000 seats of the Allen County Memorial Coliseum are expected to be filled with Hoosier men. women. and children interested in helping Vietnamese refugees reconstruct their lives. Under the slogan "Win the peace by winning the people." the IUE will set up a town in Vietnam for the use of refugees from the war. Working closely with the Agency for International Development. the IUE has consulted with the Confederation of Vietnamese LaborCVTwho recommended that the refugee village be started. This refugee resettlement village will be a community in which the displaced persons can begin a new life. in a neighborhood of homes. farms. jobs. schools. and health clinics. For. the more than 1 million Vietnamese refugees these villages are a desperate need. Such villages. as the one planned by the IUE. mean five important things in the world to men. women. and children who are exiles in their own country: first. a refuge of peace from the ravages and horrors of war. second. shelter and food. third. medical attention. fourth. the chance of reuniting dispersed and broken families. and. fifth. the opportunity to earn a living. Already the movement of 300 selected families is anticipated to the village site.
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