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Under this authority, 10.1 million persons received
874,000 tons of commodities with a CCC value of $174
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million during 1965. Food is being used as a direct
self-help incentive for part payment of wages on projects
such as land clearing; construction of schools, roads,
dams, irrigation and drainage facilities; reforestation;
soil and water conservation; and installation of sanitary
facilities. Food is also being provided to farmers and
their families while they are bringing new land into
production or changing existing land use. Colonists are
being grubstaked, and juvenile delinquency and teen-age
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unemployment combated through work camps. In
Bolivia, workers and farmers are constructing schools,
roads, irrigation canals, sewage systems, sanitary units,
and water supply systems. In northeast Brazil more
than 5,000 workers are building access roads, small
dams, community and recreation buildings, and doing
Foodfor Peace is the incentivefor scores of self-help projects in the
Philippines. Perhapsthe most unusual is that carriedout by
students at Aindanao State University. They foil cattle rustlers
by clearingcampusfields of tall weeds and underbrush so rustlers
cannot hide livestock by day and spirit the animals away by night.
general clean-up and repair work. In Korea, works
projects are being expanded to employ more than
250,000 workers in land reclamation and farm improve­
ment, farmland rearrangement, reforestation, feeder
road construction, and flood control. Although most
U.S. child feeding programs continue to be carried out
through voluntary agencies, government-to-government
programs were approved during the year to extend child
feeding in Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, Chile, Costa
Rica, and Peru. See table XXIX for details of programs
authorized in 1965.
Section 203 authorizes the payment of ocean freight
costs on shipment of foods donated under title II and
title III. Beginning January 1, 1965, this section also
provides authority to make grants of up to $7.5 million
per year of local currencies accruing under title I in
order to assure more effective use of foods made available
under titles II and III.
Under this new authority, grants of $899,000 in local
currencies were made during 1965 to support nine
voluntary agency sponsored projects in India and one
in Israel.
The grants will make possible such things as expanded
child feeding in Bombay, Mysore, and Calcutta; education
programs throughout India to teach recipients more
efficient food use; and promotion of self-sufficiency for
Tibetan refuge s by providing fruit tree seedlings to
colonists. A description of the projects appears in table
XXIX.
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When devastatingfloods hit the
State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,
the ..Brazilian Government and the
U.S.AID ission were able to
stave off hunger by flying in emergency
Foodfor Peace rations.