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Dean Monro, a member of the Faculty advisory committee of PBH, said yesterday he "would not be in favor of a project that involves discrimination of any kind...
Jointly sponsored by PBH and CARE, Project Jarba is a program which will send 20 or 30 students to Jordan this summer to help resettle displaced Bedouins...
Richard Reuter, executive director of CARE, told PBH last week that the Jordanian government "wants our help badly enough to accept Jews," according to Mary R. Taylor '62, PBH president. However, a definite decision by PBH will wait until more is known about Jordan's policy on admitting Jews into the country and protecting them while they are there. The report from the CARE representative is due at the end of this month...
...Corps expressly forbids discrimination in the selection of its volunteers, Monro noted, and the same principle should be observed here. He also observed that CARE and the United Nations "are working where there is no discrimination," and projects in these areas would "be much more in the spirit of PBH...
Financing for Project Jarba, the area of southwestern Jordan where the group will work, is being handling by the Jordanian government, the Jordanian Red Crescent (Mohammedan counterpart of the Red Cross), and CARE. The Jordanian government had originally approached CARE to supervise the building of the villages before PBH, on the recommendation of UNRWA, became involved in the project...