Plans for ORT activities throughout the world which will involve the expenditure of $6,500,000 in 1949 were outlined here today by Dr. David Lvovitch, chairman of the executive committee of the World ORT Union, upon his arrival from Europe.
“The sum of about $3,000,000 will be raised by ORT committees in those countries in which the organization operates, with the aid of government subsidies already assured, and also from donor organizations in South Africa, Canada, Latin America, Australia, and elsewhere. We shall need from the U.S., therefore, $3,500,000 in 1949 to assure the successful execution of our program. My present visit to the U.S. is for the purpose of assuring this support,” Dr. Lvovitch said.
He reported that ORT has submitted to the French Government a three-year” plan for the vocational training of 65,000 Jews in France and French North Africa, participating with the help of the Marshall Plan in augmenting the supply of skilled manpower, the shortage of which is urgently emphasized in the Monnet Plan. ORT in Italy has also presented to the Italian Government a plan to train 10,00O persons with the help of the Marshall Plan, he said.
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