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The emergency in Bessarabia is paralleled by a considerable measure of suffering in Moldavia, due also to the cold weather and the failure of crops, and similar suffering is prevalent in many communities of Lithuania and Poland.
Supplementing the effort of the Joint Distribution Committee, the American Joint Reconstruction Foundation has taken steps to allot substantial credits between now and the remainder of this year to the Jewish cooperatives in Bessarabia, Lithuania and Poland. The Foundation has advanced additional credits in the amount of $8,000 in Bessarabia, and it is anticipated that a substantial additional allotment will be granted by the Foundation.
In Lithuania, Mr. Brown continued, the Foundation granted toward the Jewish Volksbanks the sum of $35,000 and will grant large additional sums.
In Poland there has already been allotted toward the credit cooperatives for the year 1929 the sum of $350,000 and further sums are to be allotted to the workers’ cooperatives, to the strengthening of the position of the Central Cooperative Bank and other institutions. The Foundation will undoubtedly grant additional substantial sums shortly, Mr. Brown said.
In Middle and South Bessarabia a hunger committee has been organized by the Joint Distribution Committee which operates in eighteen localities, provides for the feeding and clothing of children. The union of Jewish Credit Cooperatives has received special credits which will be extended by it to its members in thirteen localities for the purchase of food. In addition members of the cooperatives are being assisted in cooperative grain purchases for the spring sowing.
In most of the communities about 30 per cent of the Jewish population have applied for help and in some of the small communities as many as 75 per cent. The condition of the children is worst of all, Mr. Brown emphasized particularly the school children, and relatively little aid can be expected from the local populations. Hunger committees have been formed in Kishineff where a thousand dinners are being distributed daily and as many people have to be turned away.
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