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Show UNESCO Emphasizes Educational Reconstruction in War-torn Lands Educational reconstruction in war-devastated countries has top priority In the UNESCO program. The first chapter of the program deals with relief and reconstruction. reconstruc-tion. Here in America we have not had a single book burned by an incendiary bomb; not a child crippled in a bombed school; not a teacher shot as an invading army marched into an American town. Surely, we who have been thus lucky will reach out a hand through UNESCO for the reconstrucUon of schools and cultural institutions. Individuals or organizations wishing to cooperate in this program pro-gram should cooperate with the Commission designated as the coordinator of American aid, the Commission of International Ed-ucatlonal Ed-ucatlonal Reconstruction or CIER. The CIER is not an operating agency but works entirely through and with established national na-tional organizations educational, education-al, scientific, cultural, relief, and religious. Copies of the CIER Handbooks, which lists Organ! . zations with Programs for Inter-national Inter-national reconstruction, may be found at the UNESCO Information Informa-tion Center in the Cedar City Public Library. Check your local groups to see which ones are collaborating with the CIER and channel your contributions through them. The CIER will accept ac-cept or tell you where to send funds and supplies. The World Student Service Fund, a member organization of the CIER, provides the following estimates of what your American Ameri-can dollars will do: $2 will supply the notebooks and paper required by a Chinese student for one year. $3, will buy one to six books for a European university whose library has been destroyed. $15 will keep a tubercular student stu-dent for a week at the international interna-tional student sanltorlum, Ley-sin, Ley-sin, Switzerland. ' . $500 will equip a student kitchen kitch-en for cheap, nutritional meals. $1,000 will feed 50 students for one month. You can help personally to collect col-lect or purchase the urgently needed educational and sclentl-flc sclentl-flc materials, or form a commit- tee to obtain gifts of needed funds, supplies and equipment. As an example of collaboration in the selection of materials there is' the plan set up by the National Na-tional Congress of .Parents and Teachers and . the Junior Red Cross. Each contributes to the contents of a standardized package pack-age which, when ready for shipping, ship-ping, contains a teacher's kit and supplies for 50 children. The teacher's kits are packed by PTA groups all over the United states. They are the size of a laundry case, are valued at $25, and contain not only schoolroom supplies such as blackboard erasers eras-ers and chalk, but also personal articles such as face powder, cold cream, a sweater, a bath towel, and other articles. The materials in the students' section of the standard package are purchased through the National Children's Fund and include a first-aid kit with supplies for one year, various var-ious school and health supplies, and one soccer football for group recreation.. UNESCO asks all national, regional, re-gional, state and local organizations organiza-tions to determine how they c;.n make their contribution in a cause so directly related to building build-ing a lasting peace. |