for auxiliary services and providing them with training. Probably one of its greatest achievements was in assisting in the organization of evacuation. On that occasion it helped to gather together a million helpers whom the local education authorities required. While these were naturally demobilized "after the evacuation, many helpers and organizers ate still doing vital work in the respective areas.
The W.V.S. provides communal meals for the children in many places. It organizes, too, mobile canteens and stationary canteens for civil. defence workers. Lately it has extended its activities to providing canteens in villages for the troops where other organizations have been unable to operate owing to lack of personnel.
Mhe W.V.S. is also helping to organize the ce-operation in the ni tional effort of all the women's voluntary organizations. It has been responsible to date for enrolling, and in a few cases training, about 600,000 women. It passes these persons on to the local authorities, or to Government departments as drivers, civil defence volunteers, nurses, etc.
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