Jews of South Africa Raised $50,000 for Relief During the Past Year

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

The United South African Jewish Relief Reconstruction and Orphans Fund raised £10,938 during 1925, according to the report presented to the conference of branches held here.

The task entrusted to the Central Executive Committee by the last Conference, the report says, was to raise a sum of money, 75 per cent of which should cover the liability in connection with Givet Hamoreh, Children’s Village in Palestine, and 25 per cent to go for reconstructive relief in Eastern Europe, The revenue from the branches in the past sixteen months was only £10,938, being short by £5,730 of the minimum sum required in order to enable South African Jewry to fulfill the obligations it had undertaken.

The report stated great progress had been made in the Givat Hamoreh Practically all the buildings, with the exception of the synagogue, are now erected, and the 130 Ukrainian orphans are being trained and educated with a view to their becoming proficient workers on the land and ultimately drawing from the land their means of livelihood.

We have remitted overseas in the period under review for reconstructive relief, the report states, a total of £1,900. This has been remitted to the Ort.

The Fund was inaugurated on January 27, 1915. The work was started on February 15, 1915. The Transvaal Fund received since its inception until it was absorbed in August, 1922, by the United South African Fund, £206,347. The United South African Fund received from August, 1922, to December 31, 1925, £81,771, a total of £288,118; other collections from various centres, the Cape Rhodesia, Natal, etc., were about £200,000, or practically a total of very nearly half a million pounds.