What Can We Do To Help Them?

Can we students out of our plenty give sacrificially to our fellow students in distress?

Within this next decade our comrades, the students of the world, must have food, shelter, clothing, the where withal to live. Our fellowship and faith will help them recover morale. Universities will re-open, will be rebuilt and re-stocked. Beyond student relief and rehabilitation lie reconciliation and reconstruction. Education must be reformed at home and abroad. Students must build an international student community.

The fight for the future is on! Students of VUC, are we going to join in?

The following extract from a pamphlet issued in Great Britain, forms a useful summary of the present position and plans of World Student Relief:

World Student Relief was constituted in 1943 through a tri-partite agreement between International Student Service, Pax Romana, and the World Student Christian Federation, with the object of coordinating student relief programmes throughout the world. During the present war, a student relief service has been maintained among prisoners-of-war, refugees and starving students. As early as March, 1942, our headquarters office in Geneva possessed individual dossiers for 7,349 students of ten nationalities scattered over 150 camps in Germany and Italy. Since that date both the number of prisoners served and the number of text-books, magazines and writing material supplied to them, have increased greatly. In Switzerland itself, to which large numbers of Polish boys and men escaped, University centers and a High School have been set up within the internment camps. Several hundred boys have graduated from school to university. Hundreds more are taking the degree course of Swiss Universities.