Conn. The Federation conducts a worldwide program of child. family and community sponsorships and village selfhelp projects to assist people. with guidance and financial assistance to improve their circumstances economically and socially. Some of the people and groups the Federation has worked with are refugees. Federation programs for refugees helped Greek children. families and villages in the aftermath of World War II. A child sponsorship and community selfhelp program was initiated for Korean refugees after that conflict and still continues. Recent Korean projects have included aid for families dislocated by flood and slum clearance. With the Algerian exodus to France. selfhelp projects were set up for Moslem refugees. VietnamThe Federation has established a child sponsorship program and a community selfhelp program serving refugees in South Vietnam. Program initiated in 1966. Personnel: 1 U.S. Additional staff expected shortly. Expenditures: 1966 budget-$50.000. Spanish Refugee Aid. Inc. (SRA). 80 East lth Street. New York. N.Y. In the 13 years since its founding. Spanish Refugee Aid has raised over $1.000.000 for the relief of Spanish Republican refugees in the South of France. 100.000 Civil War refugees remain in France. of whom 10.000 need helpa total which increases as the refugees grow older. SRA gives general financial aid to the neediest and has sponsored an adoption program through which 278 adopters send monthly contributions. 438 refugees are hospitalized. 32 are adopted and receive financial aid and letters from their adopters. At the Foyer Pablo Casals. a Center for aged Spanish refugees in Montauban. France. 243 refugees receive monthly food packages and clothing. It costs $800 a month to run the Foyer. which is supported by a number of European committees and American contributions. Since 1963.
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