The Joint Distribution Committee spent more than $2,000,000 during 1951 in countries outside of Israel to meet the needs of thousands of aged, ill and handicapped immigrants in the Jewish State, it was reported today by Moses A. Leavitt, J.D.C. executive vice-chairman. The J.D.C. Is Malben budget for 1951 on behalf of “hard core” newcomers to Israel–was $3,000,000. This year the J.D.C. will spend nearly $10,000,000.
To build and equip Malben’s network of 85 tuberculosis sanitaria, hospitals, clinics, dispensaries and other institutions in Israel, J.D.C. agents here scoured the world’s markets for structural steel, cement, timber, electrical wiring and pipe. For Malben’s ” Village for the Blind”–a unique community in wish 100 sightless family-heads have been helped to become self-supporting–J.D.C. has purchased dried sea-grass from Hong Kong, used by the blind to stuff in mattresses; raffia from Madagascar and rope yarn from India for wearing mats.
The J.D.C. has bought specially-equipped bicycles in Great Britain for use in physical therapy centers; sponge in Tunisia for its custodial care centers; and legs of nails in the United States for its carpentry project, one of a dozen rehabilitation schemes aimed at training handicapped immigrants for lives of usefulness and self-support, the report said.
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