Ralph Zimmerman arrived here today to serve in the new post of United Hias Service supervisor of community organization and fund-raising for Latin America. For the past six years, Mr. Zimmerman was campaign director of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh. He also held posts with the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the United Vocational and Employment Service of Pittsburgh.
Israel Jacobson, United Hias service director of Latin America operations, said that the new position had been established at the urgent request of leaders of a number of local and national Jewish organizations. He pointed out that the world-wide migration agency’s comprehensive resettlement program in Latin America gave rise to the advisability of creating this post.
Mr. Jacobson reported that, in 1960, financial assistance for integration in Latin America was provided to more than 2,400 resettled persons, who received such basic services as cash relief, medical care, education, vocational guidance and placement, and day nurseries for children of working mothers. Most of these people were recent migrants to Brazil.
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