World University Service

Representing losses totalling $4,750,000, slightly over 11 per cent of the university's total assets, it has been estimated that approximately 22 per cent of all campus buildings of the Univercity of Concepcion were damaged beyond repair during the disastrous series of earthquakes that struck Chile in May-June of 1960.

Having been informed by the University administration that 1000 students, not including those who previously lived with their families, are in urgent need of shelter. World University Service has budgeted Sf 15,000 in its Central Programme to purchase one complete prefabricated housing unit which will accomodate 20 students. A major effort will be made to provide several additional units through an extra-budgetary emergency appeal. Through gifts-in-kind, World University Service will also help to replenish the serious losses in educational and research equipment which have been recorded by the Science Faculties. The Physics department alone has suffered losses of equipment valued at a total of $30,200.