Headquarters Changed: Organization Grows:
The Annual Report of the Interna-1 Y.W.C.A. for 1930 is at hand, of the important changes and growth of that worthy organization for the past year. The first change was in the Y.W.C-A, Centre, it being found that the house on Museum Road was too small for growing demands. The survey of last winter had shown clearly that hopes for a large building for the. Shanghai YAW.C.A. must be postponed. 30 quarters were found at 22 Nanking Road. The second change took pla lorganizationally. Fostering-of international friendships has. always been the aim of this centre, especially through a closer relationship with the Chinese Y.W.C.A. This has been Increasing through the years and the time had come to be a real part of the Shanghai Association instead of jan unorganized centre, unattached to any stable body.
In the now quarters the activities have remained essentially the same as in the old except that they have Increased because of the larger space land the better location. The En ployment Dept, is still the most important and far-reaching, helping hundreds of girls and women ever [year to find work and become adjusted to the life of this diMeult One of the important factors in making the Y.W.C.A. known in Shanghai is the part played in, the Joint Committee of Shanghai men's Organizations, Through this Committee, contact is made with many organizations of many nationalities, This year seven of them ave shown their interest by atta ing programmes for monthly musical teas.
Because of the location the. tea room and the hostel, though small, have inc helping materially Jof the centre. Classes have run mostly to languages, Japanese and Russians studying English, others studying French or German. Those who want more activity find it in the tennis club in the summer and fence ing and basket ball in the winter. The latter team has won the Shanghai Championship for the last two years. Each year the business girls raise money at Christmas to send baskets and gifts to those less fortunate than themselves. This year, jin spite of hard times, more than jover was raised.
Following the banquet held last February with business girls in other countries, an organization was' formed called the Business Girls Council. It is composed of three representatives from each of the larger nationality groups of the city and one from the smaller ones. This group has met a number of times during the year, becoming acquainted and planning other affairs including large numbers of business girls. This is creating a feeling of unity among them and a sense of their importance to the life of the city.
Accorpine to a notice appear in the "North-China Daily News, from February 18, return fares will cease to be noted "between Shanghai and 0 and all rates on cargo from Shanzhai to Ningpo, and vice versa, will be increased by 20 per cent. arrow national economy which has been vogue heretofore. n the sions "not. only realize this, but interpret it into the: programmes of their' lives, then and then only} shall we be serving-more humanity} for ite greater happiness and higher attainments,
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