This year the V.U.C. I.S.S. committee has as its zone of interest Gadga Magda University, Djokjakarta, Indonesia. We are anxious to help the students of this university to help themselves. Indonesian students can do much to help themselves. For example, they constructed temporary lecture huts to ease the acute shortage of university buildings. But there is much more they can do with our help. In Indonesia text books are impossibly dear. (A text known to cost £3 in New Zealand sells at £15 there.) The drugs necessary to raise the poor level of student health are always expensive and often unobtainable. The Indonesian I.S.S. requires external help for the following:—

• Books: Although the I.S.S. library in Djokjakarta is, by our standards, pitifully inadequate, it is for many students their only source of texts.
• Student Health: The low level of health is apparent from the 10 per cent, incidence of Tb. among students. In addition, many students suffer from malaria and other tropical diseases. Gifts of badly, needed drugs which arc unobtainable in Indonesia will enable efficient treatment to be provided. I.S.S. Indonesia is co-operating with the university in plans for a preventive health service. Attention is also being given to the poor living conditions of most students. I.S.S. Indonesia already operates one self-supporting hostel in Djokjakarta and wants funds to start others. Help is also being given to other hostels.
• Student Co-Ops: In collaboration with the student union I.S.S. plans to establish a self-help cooperative to sell stationary and text books which are now unobtainable. Apart from an initial grant this project will be self supporting.