American Friends Service Committee BULL TIN March . April, 1956
This school in Falaise, France (above), is affiliated through SAS to Germantown Friends School. plroto: EDDIEAND RORERTWORTR At left is a view of the first school in the village of Kusanpuri, India. photo. PRFMPRAKPFII remember the farmer who made a field trip with them to a . . . venture without guarantees . . . more progressive area 50 miles away, and his wonder-struck Philadelphia, Pa. response, "Now I have seen the world." Perhaps the most Denr Friend: March 1956 important things cannot be torn down-some new ideas and Anti-Western demonstrations, which had been occurring some willingness to entertain these ideas. in Jordan in December, broke out in January in the vicinity Even the very contradictions of the situation that ~uzzle of Quaker work, some 35 miles north of Amman. On Janu- us may work quietly in the inner consciences of those who ary 9 a thousand or so Jordanian rioters, who started gather- were swept into the destruction of our project, Point IV, ing from a town outside our project area but recruited from Mennonite, Baptist and other Western-related activities. project villages as they passed through, destroyed the build- But the contradictions must work also in our own con- ings of the American Friends Service Committee rural de- sciences. All of us are involved as citizens in helping to velopment work. The five dwellings, office building and create the problems. As our field staff weighs the future of small storehouse were all one-story, made of stone and mud. our work in Jordan, it must consider not only the attitudes Paul B. Johnson, director of the work, and his wife Jean of local people but also the possible threat to the local situa- were the only Americans at the project on that day. They tion caused by continued presence of Westerners. This in were taken away by Jordanian police shortly before the turn depends on the turbulent political atmosphere-influ- rioters came. enced by oil, refugees and military alliances, East-West ten- This incident has raised again some long-range as well as sions, Arab-Israeli conflict and rivalry among Arab states. immediate questions. Why do people use violence against Those of us who are related to the AFSC like to be able those who are trying to be helpful? Was everything lost? to point to results of our planning and our giving and our What shall we do now? working. But we need to judge by other standards, too. The rioters were reacting not to our work but to United Somebody must try the untried, must venture without guar- States policy in the Middle East. Part of the irony, of course, antees. At the modest level where we usually operate, we is that Friends themselves are opposed to the military power can afford to experiment in ways that large-scale public policy which is part of the cause of the present tension. undertakings sometimes cannot. We have the chance to test We feel great sympathy for our American and Arab staff human potentialities as well as prove technical skills. We members who since 1953 have poured their energies into must even be ready for what appear to be defects. This kind these five villages, trying to approach old problems with new of undertaking requires supporters and workers with an methods and contagious hope. As the written records of uncommon measure of faith. their accumulated experience went up in smoke, they could Sincerely, try to assess what might remain. They could recall the vil- lagers who were convinced by farm demonstrations to use new grape stock or new terracing methods. They could
New Peace Program to secretaries in other regional offices, BO~ AFSC Sends First Pickus more than a year ago prepared .a Appointees to Africa Is Action-Oriented document outlining 20 program areas In The new action-oriented emphasis in Com- which concerned individuals could participate The first two AFSC appointees to a work munity I'eace Education puts this AFSC pro- in significant projects. This was circulated at camp project in Kenya, East Afrira- .. , ..nre . - :I!.. . gram more on a participation than a spectator the January 1955 Round-Up in Atlantic City. their new posts. basis. In some circles involvement is favored but regional peace and high school secretaries The two men, Don Vorhees of Whittier, 21s the key word. came to no agreement on the proposals and Calif., and Ralph Way of Port Matilda, Pa.. Each of the dozen regional offices has its they were not adopted. both transferred from other AFSC projects own peace education committee, so that ap- Since that Round-Up however, there has to their new assignments. Don was a member proaches vary widely. Hitherto most regional been growing interest in such developments of the AFSC team in Kunsan, Korea, and CPEP programs have been "event-centeretl." as family institutes and discussions following Ralph transferred from the project at Rasulia, -..~India.~~.. Events have varied from single lectures by film screenings-both implying greater par- outstanding speakers to international affairs They will work on a housing project asso- ticipation by individuals. There has also been ciated with a tuberculosis hospital where six institutes and conferences lasting from one a revival by the Middle Atlantic and New day to two weeks. Member participation has cottages will be erected for convalescent pa- been developed mainly in question periods England regions of a modification of one of tients and their families. They will also help after lectures and in discussion groups led hy the earliest AFSC peace education projects, with the agricultural tlevelopment of land at speakers or resource persons. The national the "peace caravans"-now known as travel- the settlement. CPEP office has given important service in ing institutes. The Friends Service Council of England helping to obtain speakers. Films. including "Which Way to Peace?" will send three other persons to the camp. A trend away from this event-centered plan "Sound of a Stone," "Mahatma Gandhi" and AFSC aid to Africa includes material aids for institutes has been followeci up for several "Time for Greatness." are heing used to of milk, butter oil, cheese, clothing and a sew- years at Avon Old Farms, Conn., by Russell launch discussions by the Middle Atlantic, ing machine. The clothing will be used at an Johnson, l'eace Education Secretary for the Southeastern, Pacific Southwest, New Eng- epileptic colony affiliatetl with the hospital. New England regional office. I'rogressively land, Chicago, Seattle and Portland, Ore.. The sewing machine will be used in a British less attention has been devoted to imported Friends project near Nairobi where members regional offices. The Southeastern office has of the Mau Mau are detained. speakers and more to members' round table been carrying on a special program of peace tliscussions hringing out group resources and Another project under consideration by education literature mailings to 300 AFSC AFSC would involve sending a couple to judgment. contacts in its region, financed by gifts from Coming to the Chicago regional ofiice as Salisbury, Africa, to work with students at Peace Education Secretary after wartime ex- Ada Field, a Friend ant1 former chemistry the new multi-racial university heing devel- perlencc overseas with the Olfice of Strategic professor at Guilford College. The Middle oped there. Services. Bob I'ickus (leveloped a notahlv Atlantic region is currently c:~rrying"invol\'e- successful "in\~olvement type" program. ment" into the :~ctualplanning of ;In institute Latest Publications I.arge numhers of individuals began, to par- for the coming summer. It has sent question- ticip:tte perqonally in continuous act~vities. naires to concerned individuals in 100 com- ~N~~ERNATIONAI.SEMINARS - student project So that results of this experience coulcl he munities, so that they mav cooperate in the folticr: SPRINGTIMEI'ACKET-for children p:~sced on tIi~-clu,chthe national CPEI' office sctting up of the program. and families. hron ~0.s1.v 50 rerits.
AFSC R[JL.I.ETIN-MARCH - APRI1.-1956 AFSC SERVICE OVERSEAS: STATUS AND TRENDS By LOUISW. SCHNEIDER, Foreign Service Secretary HE gradual change in the activities T of Quaker workers in Europe from relief distribution to a wide variety of educational undertakings. reflects the challenge today before the AFSC on the continent-the challenge to apply the convictions of Friends to the multi- tudinous problems of international un- derstanding. While this is the trend in Europe. where we began work 39 years ago. the AFSC finds itself increasingly com- mitted to work in Asian countries and 4 the Middle East and with increasing in- 'a, terest in Africa. This is not so much a matter of the problems of Asia and the Middle East and Africa being morc pressing than in the past; it is more a matter of everyone in the West having become more sharply aware of them in the past five or ten years. Asian and Middle Eastern affairs I, ,\ l<~,l\,<>M figure more and more prominently in The AFSC is increasingly committed to work in the Middle East. the thinking of Americans. Thus it is both appropriate and essential that though there are many elements in this. These conferences are not mere "get- AFSC be actively engaged in several the circumstance should he vicwed togethers." They offer stiff intellectual kinds of work in these areas with a positively. Another factor is the in- and spiritual challenges to men charged heavy emphasis, however, on social and creasing recognition that war with with heavy international responsibilities technical development. atomic weapons is unthinkable as a and who rarely meet each other except means of furthering national policy. as representatives of their nations. In AFSC Started Emergency Work And we must not overlook the fact Vienna the idea is carried forward in Ten years ago AFSC started emer- that there is a struggle of spiritual monthly meetings of Eastern and West- gency rehabilitation work in Germany values implicit in the world of "co-ex- ern diplomats at Quakerhaus. and other European countries. This istence." International work with young peo- merged into community activities, such The AFSC workers in Europe and ple is another opportunity. The Com- as neighborhood centers and refugee the Committee's administration in the mittee's long-established activities in- resettlement. At the Haus Schwalbach United States have deeply pondered clude School Affiliation Service, Inter- conference the Quaker worker (a Ger- the implications of these changed cir- national Student Seminars and Volun- man) reporting on refugee work cumstances. In this consideration we tary Work Camps. The prospect exists summed it up, and to a considerable are mindful that our fundamental prin- of exploring ways to have SAS touch extent reflected the situation regarding ciples do not vary in time or area. hut schools on the East side of the East- what might be called the Committee's are based on the same religious convic- West division of Europe. With in- "physical" work in Europe, by saying: tion. Whether a situation is favorable creased opportunities and resources, "The fact that we want to withdraw or unfavorable, whatever its compo- the refreshing and revealing experience from this work reminds us that there nents, the faith and witness are the for young people of many nationalities are many problems yet to he solved: same. For the interpretation of these to live and study together in an inter- however these are German concerns principles in its work abroad the AFSC national seminar could be more widely and can be solved only through Ger- 1s wholly dependent on its workers sprcad. man legislative action. It is to he hoped to reflect a deeply spiritual faith. How In the past year it has hecn brought that further favorable economic devel- can our religiously-motivated octivit~c\ home to AFSC that if the highest values opment will solve the remaining prob- serve the new situation? are to be had from internationnl volun- lems. . . . And for that reason we ap- tary work camps experience. the Com- preciate the desire of the Quakers to Programs May Grow mittee should find morc resources to undertake new and more important Our programs in the field of intcrn'l- have camps of its own. created as an tasks which are awaiting them, espe- t~onalunderstanding arc heing 5trcngth- integral part of the total AFSC work cially in Asia." ened and extended. The informal Con- in any country. Friends Intern;~tional Resides the material recoverv of ferences for Diplomats offer one possi- Centers, in both Europc and Asia. have Europe there is the changed political bility. In 1955 two were held in Switzer- the roots and the c;~pacitiecto cvtcnd climate. Newspapers in both East and land and one in Ceylon. the first time their activities for intcrn:~tionalfriend- \Vest refer to relaxed tensions. Al- this work has bccn c:~rricd to A~ia. ship. Coritirirrrrl ori I.n.st Pnxr
.4FSC RULLETIN-MARCH - APRl1.-1956 3 SCHOOL AFFILIATI SERVICE:
"I have had the experience to know that there are so many differ- ences between your people and my people. We ought to look around for some interpreter, some method of bridging the gap. "Of this method of interpretation we must require that it makes us Die Briicke-What Is It? grow closer together, that it conveys insight and knowledge to help us to understand each other. Students at Jacobi Gymnasium thought of school affiliation as a bridge "School affiliation is only one little tool to help change world when they started the exchange with history." George School and began publishing a magazine which they named, "Die The German boy who wrote that had spent a year at George Briicke." To them it represented :I School in Bucks County, Pa., as an exchange student from Jacobi bridge connecting their two nations. Gymnasium, Dusseldorf, Germany. School Affiliation Service is spon- sored by the American Friends Service Committee. It is "one little tool" being used to overcome barriers between What Does School Affiliation An Overseas School Committee was peoples. Its activities include exchange Try to Do set up in Boston and material aids were of letters, classroom projects, students sent abroad. International friendships and teachers, and participation by them Here are some of the answers: through personal letters were encour- in summer activities with their partner aged. Later, as Europe began its eco- schools. . . . to help students and teachers un- nomic recovery, the material aids fea- derstand and enjoy similarities ture of the program was replaced by and differences in people. other means of expression. How We Look From . . to promote personal friendships The American Friends Service Com- Across the Bridge between people of different na- mittee was asked to cooperate in the "I had always thought that Ameri- tions. program by giving overseas guidance. cans earn their money by just sitting in At that time-1947-the program in- . . . to encourage schools to integrate cluded France, Italy and the Nether- the office chewing gum and smoking experiences in international un- lots of cigarettes." lands. Shortly afterwards Germany was derstanding into their regular added. Upon Dr. Stearn's retirement "American education, compared to curriculum. ours, is far behind the times. The chil- in 1948 the AFSC took full charge of . . . to help students and teachers the program. dren are onlv taughtL about half as much and concentrate mainly on phv- better understand the world by sical education more than mental." participation in an international School Affiliation Is Different "There are no old-fashioned quarters program. in their cities, simply because there has It is not an international travel pro- never been an old-fashioned America." gram or an arrangement of summer ex- "At one time the American politics Foundations Laid in 1946 change visits. Nor is it a pen pal club. and law courts were the most corrupt It is a continuing educational experi- in the world. . . ." Dr. Alfred E. Stearn, headmaster ence involving cultural and personal Admittedly those are the ideas of emeritus of Phillips Academy, Ando- exchanges between schools. Students, school children-some in the seventh ver, Mass., laid the foundations for the teachers and school administrators grade-who have only the barest School Affiliation Service in 1946. He visit, study and teach in their partner knowledge of America. They welcome thought that schools in the United schools. School Affiliation Service con- the chance which may come for a States should send aid to schools in ferences in the Philadelphia area, New better understanding through letters, a war-devastated areas of Europe. The England, on the West Coast, in France, school paper or magazine, maps, scrap- project, he reasoned, would help Amer- Germany and England give partici- books, photographs or personal associ- ican students understand some of the pants a broader sense of their relation- ations with a foreign student or teacher. problems of war-stricken nations. ship to all the schools in the program.
AFSC BULLETIN-' A ten-year link between schools
Heidi Schreiber, center, of Munich, Germany, is a student this The Price family music circle in- year at Friends Central School, Philadelphia. Her hosts, Sue, cludes Heidi. She takes the regular left, and Pat Price. junior class work at the school.
At the conferences teachers, stu- curriculum, and student body (male, Into the Future dents and parents may receive inspira- female or co-educational) are consid- School affiliation has unlimited pos- tion and exchange ideas with persons ered. sibilities for increasing the number of from abroad. Once an affiliation has materialized young people and teachers who can The SAS Teachers Conference, held the partner schools can make the pro- share experiences across international annually in Europe, gives teachers and gram as intensive and far-reaching as boundaries. Enrichment and expansion administrators from partner schools in ingenuity and enthusiasm permit. continues on both sides of the Atlan- Europe and the United States a chance tic. In Europe greater responsibility to dispel barriers of misunderstanding and direction is being taken by na- and develop lasting friendships. tionals of the respective countries. The Tri-National, help of AFSC regional offices and vol- Four-School Amliation unteers in this country permits wider 220 Schools in Eight Nations interpretation and recruiting. Progress Early last June two boys-one Ger- in these directions is as rapid as re- Growing out of the concern of one man, the other American-arrived at sources permit. individual and a few schools, School Jules Ferry School in Coulommiers, Affiliation Service has expanded in ten France, to start the first tri-national Making fudge and cooking typical years to include about 220 public and affiliation. American foods are among the private schools, secondary and elemen- Ken Thompson of George School in varied experiences Heidi enjoys as tary. They are located in England, Rucks County, Pa., had been an ex- an exchange student. France, Germany, Italy, the Nether- change student at Jacobi Gymnasium lands, United States. Japan and Jordan. in Dusseldorf, Germany. Klass Schmalbruch of Jacobi Gym- nasium had been at George School for How the Plan Works a year. School Affiliation Service staff mem- Since 1947 George School, a co-edu- bers and volunteers in the United States cational school, has affiliated through and Europe help coordinate the pro- SAS with two German schools-Jacobi gram with participating schools. Gymnasium, for boys and Gertrauden- An SAS representative visits inter- schule, a girls school. ested schools, explains the idea and With the arrival of Ken Thompson gets information needed to assure a bal- at Jules Ferry each of the four schools ance between the two schools which became affiliated with each of the will affiliate. Factors such as their size. others in a four-way tie-up.
ICH - APRIL-1956 5 AFSC SUMMER VOLUNTEERS apply study and team work to current problems
HIS SUMMER about 650 young men and women will look for new T solutions to some old problems. In AFSC work camps, service units and seminars these volunteers will take constructive action on specific projects, while studying their broad social, economic, even political implications. A recent ecumenical conference of 3000 students proclaimed that the first step in solving man's problems is "the smashing of barriers of prejudice everywhere." In their interracial, interfaith, international projects, AFSC volunteers see barriers crumble under the business of living together, for, as one participant put it, "blisters don't discriminate" and a guitar and songbooks have universal appeal. Diversity of background becomes not a hindrance but a stimulus as the groups direct their collective thinking toward fresh approaches to current problems.
Problem: dence and dignity. They study the courses. They encourage neighbors to ECONOMIC HARDSHIP causes and results of mental disorder work together for local improvements. and delinquency. Frequently they have The city slum-dweller, the migrant the opportunity to interpret institu- farm worker, the reservation-bound Problem: tional needs to the community. Indian share the plight of underprivi- CLICHE THINKING leged groups in a land of plenty. Volun- Problem: A maze of slogans, stereotypes and teers in U. S. WORK CAMPS join cliches often obscures the facts and these people in their struggle for a MECHANIZED ROUTINE principles behind current events. Week- better life. They help build and repair The influences which shape a long COLLEGE INSTITUTES bring homes and schools, establish commun- worker's thoughts and actions are together thinking young people and in- ity centers, plan and direct needed rec- vividly experienced by INTERNES formed leaders for discussion of timely reation for children and adults. Both IN INDUSTRY. They learn the weari- issues. Themes are as varied as the loca- campers and community gain perspec- ness of hunting a job (and the exulta- tions; for example, an institute in tive as they discover new outlooks, new tion of finding it), the regimen of the Washington, D. C., focuses on our modes of living. time clock, the monotony of the as- government in action. In a six-week Problem: sembly line, the interaction of worker, peace caravan. teams of young people foreman and employer. Living in popu- follow up one institute with peace edu- CROWDED INSTITUTIONS lous factory neighborhoods they ob- cation visits in small communities. Our mental hospitals, schools for the serve related social conditions. Discus- retarded and correctional institutions sions with leaders of labor and Problem: are often handicapped by overcrowd- management, education and religion CULTURAL ISOLATION ing and understaffing. Individuals re- enlarge their view of industrialization. ceive mass treatment when they most Hindered by meager education and need personal attention. Members of Problem: lack of idea-exchange with the outside INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE UNITS world. many a villager in Latin provide interest, understanding and COMMUNITY DlSORGANlZATlON America is almost helpless to improve friendship, attempt to restore confi- Areas of urban decay challenge IN- his poor housing, food and sanitation. TERNES IN COMMUNITY SERV- Volunteers in COMMUNITY SERV- ICE. Working with small welfare agen- ICE UNITS IN MEXICO AND EL cies, internes make studies of housing. SAl-VADOR seek to give physical as- family life, delinquency and minority sistance and to promote goodwill. "Los integration. They see how overcrowd- Amigos" help with health and sanita- ing has blighted once-prosperous tion programs. handicrafts. homemak- neighborhoods, how discrimination has ing classes. recreation, construction. confined residents. Internes also or- They become an integral part of the ganize groups of all ages for education community. contributing to its growth. and recreation, craft and homemaking sharing in its rich traditions.
Quiet worship and meditation may bring new insights. AFSC BULLETIN-MARCH . APRIL-1956, Conference for Diplomats Held in Asia
It rained four days on the first mechanics of the conferences at Heuven Goedhart, High Commissioner Quaker Conference for Diplomats in Clarens and in Ceylon. Talks and dis- for Refugees, United Nations. Asia held in Ceylon last December. cussions may or may not follow the In the area of ideas and attitudes, But rain, mosquitos, noise, crows and tentative outline sent beforehand. No measurements are difficult and unreli- other minor disturbances did not newsmen or visitors are admitted, no able but nevertheless useful. The Serv- dampen the enthusiasm of participants. resolutions drawn, no decisions made. ice Committee's most impressive evalu- Twenty-eight "middle-level" diplo- At Ceylon the talks and discussions had ation of the seminars has come from mats from 13 Asian and Western na- these themes; problems ot sovereignty. the alumni who maintain interest and tions were present for the ten-day con- national interest and intcrnational rc- contact with the program. ference held at the University of sponsibility, national morality com- A former participant discussing the Ceylon at Peradeniya. They had come pared with personal morality, colonial- lasting values of the conference wrote: for a new experience in international ism, foreign aid, disarmament, co- "Once you break away from the for- relations. The weather and other proh- existence and language problems. mal approach of official representative lems were peripheral. Participants and consultants are in- to official representative, you find there Diplomats, unlike many other pro- vited to the seminars. Only two of those is much more room for accommodat- fessional groups, don't seem to get to- invited to Ceylon were abrent. They ing the views of others, without harm gether in conventions and conferences to one's own legitimate national self- to promote their peculiar vocational in- interest. It was amazing and illuminat- terests. Maybe that is a handicap as ing to see how we had all come with set they work at world affairs. Quakers views on the many problems we dis- were thinking of this need when they cussed: how in the beginning wc in- started the Washington Seminar on stinctively were on the defensive when International Affairs several years ago. the policies or viewpoints of our re- The idea flowered into the Clarens spective governments came under ques- conferences in 1957. The fifth and tion: and how in the end, following ten sixth of those were held last summer in clays of community living, free es- Switzerland. change of views publicly and privately. The following nations were renre- some of the chips had fallen off our sented at the Ceylon conference: Can- shoulders." ada, India, Pakistan. Thailand, Tndo- The University of Ceylon. Commenting on the value of friend- nesia, Japan, Australia. United States. ships which dcveloped on a first-name United Kingdom, France. the Nethcr- attcnd as individuals and arc expected basis during the ten days. he said. "The lands, West Germany and Ceylon. to speak only their personal thoughts. full effect of this will not, in my estima- Other nations represented among the Consultants at past conferences have tion. be lost should two or three of us staff and consultants were Rurnia and included: Ralph J. Bunche, Under Sec- at some future date be in the position Norway. Thirteen Asians participated. retary General, United Nations; Paul- of negotiating together in an oficial Co-chairmen of the Ceylon confer- Henri Spaak, Minister of Foreign Af- capacity toward the solution of some ence were A.M.A. Azeez. principal of fairs, Belgium; Dr. Brock Chisholm. knotty problem of diplomacy at issue Zahira College. Colombo, and Geof- former Director General, WHO; Dr. between our governments." frey Wilson, an English Friend ant1 Raden Mas Soebandrio, Indonesian Now the seminar program will he former director of the Colombo Plan. Ambassador to Moscow; Kenneth extended to the United Nations. The Consultants included two Americans. Younger, former Minister of State for Service Committee expects to conduct an Indian and a Pakistani. Foreign Affairs. United Kingdom: Mrs. the first of the U.N. series this spriny Informality and privacy are features Alva Myrdal. Director. Social Sciences for members of the Secretariat and per- accepted as guiding principles in the Department, UNESCO; and C. J. van manent delegations.
Problem: Problem: Scorer of vorrnr: people hnve nlrendv HAMPERING ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL TENSIONS decided to toke poritive action or1 tlreir heliefr tkir rrtmmer, to npplv ctrtd~nnd Non-arable land. natural disaster and World problems assume real mean- tcwm~z~orkto the prohlcmr of 1956. A man-made poverty are problems coni- ing and urgency when 20 nationalities r~rrrnherof plncer nre rtill (71,nilohlc:irr- mon to many peoples. Participants in gather around a conference table. In formntion rent rtpor? reqrrert. OVERSEAS WORK CAMPS lend INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS stu- help and encouragement to such proj- dents from many countries. together ects as preparing rocky fields for cr~lti- with skilled consultants. analyze the vation. clearing avalanche and flood causes of intcrnational conflict and ex- damage. building homes ant1 schools. plore fundamental means of preven- direct~ngrecreation. The camps on tion. The infornial seminar ntniospherc three continents are sponsored hv invites lively discus~ion.nncl 130th facts AFSC and by organi7ations abroad. A\ and biascs rcccive c:trcful scrutin!.. they live simply and \hare attitudes. Some seminars combine stucly with :I campers find basic 5iniilaritics undcr- work project, to further enrich the in- lying clifferenccs of honiel,lnd. bcl~cf tcllecti~alcxpcriencc.
Work campers learn from Ameri- can Indians and other minorities. AFSC SERVICE OVERSEAS such as that held last December in Cey- means different things to different peo- Continued from Page 3 lon probably will be repeated some ple. In the shadow of the huge Hirakud This is not a comprehensive descrip- place in Asia this year, and in Japan Dam in Orissa, one of the three largest tion of Quaker work in Europe but it work goes on in neighborhood centers, engineering undertakings of the Indian indicates the course the present work work camps and seminars. The Com- government, Indian villagers are ex- has pursued and the direction in which mittee has sent two young men to periencing the many meanings of it is being extended. Kaimosi, Kenya, where they will help technical development. Since 1952 Asia, the Middle East and Africa are build cottages for recuperating TB pa- Quaker workers and their Indian co- growing in importance in world affairs. tients at the Friends African Mission workers have been based at Barpali, Having recently won a large measure hospital. Orissa. While their activities may be of political freedom, countries of these The term "social and technical assist- described in the usual terms-health, regions are now launched on a tremen- ance" covers many things and probably education, better crops, sturdier cattle dous effort to achieve social and eco- and poultry-their work is essentially nomic freedom. In the West these free- to help the villagers in revolutionary doms are seen as the root problems of adjustments called for in almost every poverty, disease, malnutrition and illit- phase of their lives. The engineering eracy. It is at these levels that AFSC feat will eventually bring electricity to works in community development in the village hut; it already has brought India and the Middle East. a searching to nearly every heart These are long-term undertakings, where cherished concepts handed down more so than any in Europe after either through generations must be ques- the first or second world wars. They tioned. require continued support and interpre- The Committee goes forward in this tation. The aim of this Quaker work is work, believing with William Penn the same as in other places. Quaker that: "True Godliness does not turn workers go into the so-called under- men out of the world but enables them developed areas with as much need and to live better in it and excites their en- eagerness to acquire as to impart deavors to mend it. Christians should knowledge, lest they weaken rather keep the helm and guide the vessel to than strengthen, through their innova- port; not meanly steal out of the storm tions, fine cultural and spiritual values of the world and leave those that are 1 l>llIl \&I1 !
HE AMERICANFRIENDS SERVICE COM- TMITTEE, a Quaker organization, at- tempts to relieve human suffering and to ease tensions between individuals, groups or nations. We believe there is that of God in every man, and that love in action can overcome hatred, prejudice and fear. Our work is open to anyone regardless of race, religion or nationality. We de- pend upon your contributions. Checks may be sent to the American Friends Service Committee at any of its offices.
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AFSC BULLETIN Number 47