The Hungarian ORT has just purchased a training farm with capacity for instructing 60 boys and 40 girls in the rudiments of agriculture, the Budapest ORT Committee announced today. In addition the organization has also bought 100 weaving looms in Budapest for handicraft education.
At present the Hungarian ORT, which functioned throughout the war, is supporting 12 training institutions with a total enrollment of 597 students. In Budapest there are 150 boys in the technical school and 120 girls in a vocational school. The Government has agreed to recognize the diplomas of these schools as equivalent to its own high school diploma.
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