Confidence that the ORT vocational training centers in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya would not be affected by the Moslem nationalistic unrest prevailing in these countries was expressed here today at the biennial conference of the Women’s American ORT, attended by 200 delegates from all parts of the country.
The ORT work in these countries was reviewed at the conference by Mrs. Ludwig Kaplan, president of the women’s group. “The trade schools maintained by the ORT there,” she told the conference, “have become indispenaable instruments for the economic development of these underdeveloped nations. They have been encouraged and supported by both the French and local authorities, with whom we are on the best of terms. The projected program for the expansion of our North African schools will continue.”
The conference decided to furnish a new vocational training center in Nathanya. Israel, with a complete line of modern American machines, tools and training equipment. The decision to undertake this project was made in response to a request by the municipal government of Nathanya, which has recently allocated funds for the establishment under ORT’s supervision of a complete vocational training center in that rapidly growing community.
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