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| 1 a -- Lots of good things... and ten to one. you can afford "most of them. But what would you want for Christmas if you were a 'Peruvian farm labourer working' the soil of a vast rancho for as little as 65 cents a day - or a fisherman in the Philippines trying to 'feed, clothe and shelter a family on $336 a year -- or * the head of an East African family looking forward to an income of $125 in 1972? It's not just a matter of money or the lack of it. OXFAM CANADA"s concern is what lies BEHIND the ~-lack of earning power -- and what can be done to change the situation, What CAN be done? Do we wrap up piles of Canadian Christmas goodies and ship them off to people in the developing world? No - because it won't help. Hand- 'outs are not the answer to and want _ citizens of the world . . anything; 2 What people in developing countries need is .tools and knowledge so they can help themselves. And they WILL help themselves . , . they'll feed, clothe, educate and shelter themselves . . . carry out. their responsibilities as AE Johnion 220 MARY STREET 985 -2383 DISCOUNT SPECIAL Two Weeks - Dec. 1-14 . Rexall's New Balsam INSTANT HAIR CONDITIONER a 12 oz, PROTEIN . 89¢c. Lawrence Pharmacy- "Your REXALL Store Sif help - you. ~ What do YoU want dr ris you give them a START . , . through OXFAM - sponsored Self-Help Projects. " Consider the farm worker in Quilmana. Canadian farmers have. enough agricultural know- how to grow a bumper crop «in a sand-box. It's different in Quilmana. Farmers there have no education, Their farming . methods are downright primitive by Canadian They're not sufficiently organized to take advantage of the Agarian Reforms that , were made in 1968 by the Peruvian Government. . So they. labour on vast Ranchos in many cases for the princely sum of 65 cents a -day! With a: grant-of $4,300 from OXFAM, social workers, teaching them better farming methods and counselling them on the advantages of forming their own co-operatives. The job won't be finished overnight. It has just started. The point is - it hasbeen started. And from past experience OX- FAM knows the farmers will finish the job thémselves! What of .the fishermen in Santa Cruz? On the mountainous island," o of Mindanao in the Philippines, the fishermen. of 'Santa Cruz Parish earn an average of $336 annually. On an income of $336 a year you live in a small grass hut, depend on rain for<drinking water and eat little' more than corn and fish. Life is not exactly rosy and when you're hit by a Typhoon, and when your fishing canoes, homes and possessions are ~~ totally destroyed, your life is ended - you're wiped out.' You have no reserve from 'which to re-build. Unless, of course, someone wants to Rev. Henri Veilleux of the Foreign "Mission Society of Quebec, his family and friends standards. destroyed. A $2,000 grant "7° ih from OXFAM CANADA is 1 helping build 50 more motorized canoes which the fishermen will buy. "And what of the family in . East Africa? . On an income of $125 an- -nually, with no hospital insurance 'and only one doctor for every 708,000 people you haven't much hope of obtaining adequate medical service. The gap is being filled by the East. ° Africa Flying Doctor Ser- vice, one of the most exciting projects - being funded by OXFAM: Dr. Michael Wood, head of "the East Africa Flying Doctor Service, has flown 500,000-miles; performed 10,000 surgical operations and accepted hundreds of "house calls" from bushland 'outposts 250 miles or more from his base in Nairobi . . . all this-in 10 years. The conditions under which Dr. Wood works are described as "difficult." His * tiny plane flies over craggy mountains, enduring in- describable 'buffeting from 'wind currents. He lands where he can. If there's a - landing strip, even one full of pot-holes, he. considers himself a lucky man. His job is overwhelming. It encompasses all phases of medicine from complicated | { Ho ; LL 7008 - i ~ Earl Phoenix, seated at right was the winner of the 1971 Grain Club Trophy. It was presented to him following the regular dinner meeting of the Port Perry Lions Club, sponosor of the Grain Club for many years. Seated beside him is Marion Couperthwaite with the plaque she won and standing behind are two other winners of plaques Don Smith (left) and Jim Phoenix, Gerry Nelson, Fieldman for the Ontario Holstein- Frie- sian Association was speaker and had chosen for his topic the animal he is promoting all the time. His speech also contained a considerable amount of local colour and was received with much enthusiasm by those present. plastic surgery - to trying to convince a-mother-that-she can prevent blindness simply. by keeping hér child's eyes clean, It ranges hyena to trying to inaugurate preventiv e medicine programs in Ethiopia where medical conditions are like smallpox, cholera, fever, even plague." At Christmas time we talk a lot about love and com- yellow isn't enough. Nabody can gift-wrap all the good things of Canadian life and mail them to people in un- from curative medicine such as treating a man bittenby a Middle ~wanted: to 'help. To date, they've replaced 50 of the 500 fishing canoes that were Hank's Excavating SEWER INSTALLATION Phone 985-2333 or Box 489 PORT PERRY ANNUAL SPEAKERS Free Lunch at Noon H. 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