A new loan fund for Jewish immigrants to Brazil has been established with Jewish Colonization support, it was reported here today at a quarterly meeting of the JCA. The fund, opened in Rio de Janeiro, is the third in Brazil–the other two are in Sao Paulo.
The JCA voted funds to expand activities of loan funds for immigrants, artisans, small businessmen and farmers in Canada, Australia and France. It also set aside allocations for refugee reception activities in various countries which have received Jewish exiles from Poland, Hungary, Egypt and North Africa.
The JCA board decided to make further grants for the reconstruction and modernization of the Mikveh Israel Agricultural School in Israel, subsidize research fellowships in the United Kingdom for members of the agricultural faculty of the Hebrew University and aid married children of settlers JCA had originally set up in Palestine to settle in Israel settlements.
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