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Save the Children Fund. N. Y.
Cash contribution to ICRC of $1,000 and to CARE for medical supplies of
$5,608 for a total of ...................... $ 6,608
Seventh-Day Adventist Welfare Service
The Service has shipped approximately ~1~0,000 Worth 01 medicines donated
by U. S. phmceutical cQnpanies through Church World Service, and an
X-ray unit worth $3,000 for a total of ............. $ 103,000
Unitarian Universalist Service Conanittee, Inc.
As of IWch 15, 1969, this Corrmittee had sent cash for agricultural supplies,
medicines and costs of resettlement of 30 families in the villqe of Awo
Cmannra. Their major effort is the hospital in this village.
Total reported contributions .................. $ 20,000
World Ftellef Comnlssion
The \fJorld Rellef Comnlssion sends funds and personnel to aid in local
purchase of food, vehicles and other relief articles needed to help displaced
persons and to operate feedina programs in both Nigeria and Biafka. As of
March 15, 1969, more than $30,000 had been contributed to Nigeria and more
than $50,000 to Biafra, for a total of ............. $a
Total for 19 registered voles including American Red Cmss . . $11,031,631
Other U.
S. Private Assistance
Other U. S. voluntary groups contributed to the NiqeriaA3iafra mllef
operations. Some gave directly in supplies or cash to a particular
program, some to other mllef agencies and others to specially organized
surface and air shipments from the United States such as the Able Nathan
airlifts and "Christmas Ship" in November and December of 1968. Folloh~n,~
is a list of these groups on which reports were received and the value
of their contributions:
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, Inc. $ 30,000
American Conanittee to Keep Riafra Alive 20,000
Biafra Relief Services Foundation 50,000
R1nai Brith Foundation 250,000
US Committee for UNICEF to UNICEF operations 426,000
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
$ 726,000
The following U. S. pharmaceutical firms made donations of dws, antibiotics
and other medical supplies to victims of the conflict through the American
National Red Cross and U. S. voluntary agencies. The values of their
contributions are listed below but are not added to the others in this
section since they have been included in the reports by the various agencies: