Herbert H. Lehman, director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, yesterday announced that discussions have taken place with voluntary relief agencies concerning the cooperative role such agencies may assume in future operations of UNRRA.
“The discussions have taken place in accordance with the UNRRA agreement and resolutions adopted by the UNRRA council at Atlantic City,” the announcement said. “It is probable the many different agencies concerned with emergency needs will furnish relief workers to work together as mixed inter-organizational teams under UNRRA direction. Thus, where voluntary societies wish to participate in relief activities a partnership of effort will be created as a supplement to UNRRA’s central program. As the voluntary agencies wish to provide both professional and general relief workers, the method is expected to bring to the many difficult problems of relief a wide range of skills and services knit together in a common effort.
“A similar program is being developed in London where at the present time UNRRA’s regional office for European operations is assembling teams for relief service from the Council of British Societies for relief abroad. Training courses for personnel assembled in the United States will be instituted. Miss Mary Craig McGeachy, director of the Division of Welfare, will coordinate these activities in cooperation with the Division of Personnel and Training,” the announcement concluded.
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