More Blessed to Give

Not all U.S. foreign aid is in the impersonal form of Government programs. Individual Americans, in uncounted thousands, dig deep into their private pockets every year. According to an International Cooperation Administration report released last week, 56 U.S. private agencies spent a total of $291,899,393 on "projects and services of relief and rehabilitation to needy nations and refugees in health, education, welfare, agriculture, industry, emigration and resettlement all over the world."

Contributing more than $1,000,000 each:

Catholic Relief Services $115,809,326

CARE 48,229,171

Church World Service, Inc. 35,065,244

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 28,628 270

Lutheran World Relief 15,239,572

Hadassah 12,480,662

Christian Children's Fund, Inc. 4,198,584

Foster Parents' Plan, Inc. 4,095,769

American Organization for Rehabilitation through Training Federation 2,650,818

Mennonite Central Committee 2,454,411

American Friends Service Committee, Inc. 2,312,061

United Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Service 2,192,944

MEDICO, Inc. 2,031,487

Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service 1,667,972

Near East Foundation 1,598,200

Y.M.C.A. International Committee 1,410,835

International Rescue Committee 1,053,689

Who got the aid? ICA divided the world into the five areas:

Near East-South Asia $70,250,724

Europe 66,990,439

Far East 48,867,937

South and Central America 29,031,037

Africa 16,481,146

Within the individual areas, the leading recipient countries were:

Israel $25,430,142

Italy 18,344,365

Korea 14,395,427

Yugoslavia 13,637,312

United Arab Republic 12,182,540

Chile 12,020,616

India 10,305,070

Spain 10,191,160

Greece 7,954,927

Viet Nam 7,751,311

Hong Kong 7,705,000

Morocco 7,595,383

Poland 6,977,050

China, Republic of 6,150,318

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