Ten German refugee children between the ages of 8 and 14 are to be placed at Meier Shfeyah, Junior Hadassah’s cooperative children’s village near Haifa in Palestine, according to that body. The children will be chosen from among the thousands to be brought to the country by the Bureau for the Settlement of Refugee Children in Palestine of which Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, is chairman.
Meler Shfeyah is an experimental effort to build a model home and school for children, according to Miss Celia Slohm of Buffalo, national chairman of Junior Hadassah. All the activities at the school, academies, agricultural and domestic, are run on a cooperative basis. The older children help teach the younger one and the instructors assist in household tasks as well as in truck farming, dairying and poultry farming. Twice a year the 110 boys and girls meet to choose a committee of five who then become responsible to the community for reporting on all departments of work and administration and for arranging programs.
What they think about their administration the children print ir a weekly paper which they bring out. They are free to criticize the adults or one another provided they do it in a friendly spirit. The person criticized may next edition of the paper.
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