Why help?

Easy-living New Zealanders are inclined to ask: "Why help these people? Our lives seem in no way bound with theirs." Would we walk past a stranger in the street who had fallen and was calling for our help?

The crux of the problem is apparently not any lack of willingness to help on our part, and certainly not any lack of the means.

What is needed is an awareness of the conditions in S.E. Asia. In fact, it is a Christian duty and even an act of ordinary decency for every one of us to look across and ask how we can assist the '"fallen strangers."

As students, the sphere in which we are best equipped to help is education, and it is hoped that, with the full support of all New Zealand students, this scholarship will be a worthwhile contribution.