Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Phillip Whitten, a second-year student at the Graduate School of Education and chairman of BROTHER (Biafran Rescue Organization to Hasten Emergency Relief), said that the group has also raised about $4000 from personal contributions by Harvard professors and students, and from collection boxes in Harvard Square...
After a recent unsuccessful effort to launch a relief ship to Biafra, "BROTHER"--a Cambridge-based group of students--is now supporting relief flights to the secessionist African nation...
BROTHER is using money primarily to support one of the 56 flights made every week by the Church World Service (CWS) to bring food, medicine, and other relief supplies into Biafra. Each flight costs about $2000, with the money needed in order to secure a charter and to pay the pilot and navigator...
...Biafran Association, an organization which aids in the rehabilitation of Biafrans in refugee camps. Whitten's group also has sent $1600 to Abie Nathan, Israeli peace pilot to help finance his missions to Biafra. BROTHER has channeled about $3000 in personal contributions to CWS and to the Catholic Relief Service (Caritas...
...Committee for Nigerian-Biafra Relief, an organization which Whitten founded along with BROTHER, has screened over 600 people to do relief work in Biafra, Whitten said. Ten of them have been accepted by such organizations as UNICEF, the American Friends, and the Lutheran World Service, he added...