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Over the past century. ORTs thousands of volunteers and skilled professional staff members have provided training and technical assistance to underpriviledged persons in 44 countries around the globe. In Rome. where Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union have recently migrated at the rate of up to 1.0001.200 persons a month. ORT provides services of refugee maintenance. language training and cultural orientation to the refugee community. In Israel. where ORT has concentrated its efforts on easing blocks to the absorption of professional immigrants. volunteers provide programs of language and attitudinal accommodation and special schooling for the "recycling" of engineers. technicians and teachers for employment in a new country. In New York. the Bramson ORT Training Center provides a variety of courses in business and electronics. with a novel emphasis on individual instruction geared to the particular needs of the students and the current demands of the labor market. And throughout the Third World. where the acquisition of appropriate skills may prove to be the key to successful development efforts ORT provides the valuable training and technical assistance necessary for economic growth.