The Archive · 1939

Practical Relief

In Nantao — Goodwill Industries Run To Assist Refugees by — Self-help Not Charity

"Goodwill Industries" in Shanghai was launched March, 1938, by the Nantao Christian Institute, a social settlement under the auspices of the American Presbyterian Mission., The by this very unusual refugee '—the workers come from their own homes or huts—is of the self-help or paid-labour type. Many forms of service are conducted by a force of experienced Chinese social workers under the direction of Miss B. M. Bille and Mr. Wilmot D. Boone.

Refugees who have returned from the Settlement camps and other unemployed poor of Nantao have little opportunity to return to their former occupations, tools and materials are lacking and the sale of products is difficult.

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