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six other villages. The training courses for local leaders, arranged by the Federation of Women's Institutes of Rhodesia for its African Home- craft Clubs, which the Lady Aberdeen Schol- arship helped to finance. have been such a success that additional funds have been made available from local sources to extend the work. A new departure financed by the Lady Aberdeen Scholarship is a year's professional training for an African girl who is to help run the courses in future. In Natal. a Xhosa scholar. sponsored by the Federated Women's Institutes. is taking a course in Social Work at the University College of Zululand. Mrs. Isigi of the Maendeleo Ya Wanawaka 0r- ganisatiom. now back in Kenya after training in Norway. is working on a regional training programme at Kakamega. Mrs. Elmina Allen has reported on the formidable responsibilities she has undertaken since her return from Ireland to Trinidad and Tobago. Mrs. (.inanasekcram and Mrs, Ganegoda of Ceylon have also trained in Ireland. Mrs. Ganegoda is carrying on some of the rural work formerly done by Miss Lilamani Perera, nu Canadian UNESCO study tour in it :7 5 5 and Canada. ’ Mrs. Daisy Ndhlovu (now Assist, munity Affairs Officer) spoke at Conference of the Zambian Assn. Women’s Institutes about her training errt Ireland. Meanwhile two stud. Assam have just arrived in Denmail out a new type of in-service tra gramme, to be followed by a course the folk-schools. A major schol.; been awarded to a voluntary wo- Sikkim. to study nutrition at the l of the Philippines; previously an i stani scholar. Mrs. Kuddus, spent th: there. Each new venture is worked out the special needs of the communitic. ed. Results have been exciting and : one has turned out to be a pun. operation drawing support from sources for a programme which !‘ its value as a Lady Aberdeen 5,. experiment. Friends of Retarded Childre In the [art issue of Home and Country, we asked an_\' Institute that has undertaken a Spe- cial service [or retarded children to let us know about it. Following are some replies. Mm- H'L‘ hear from others? ROM MRS. EARL WARD of Whitby F Institute: "Several members of our Whitby Institute have taken on the sponsoring of is retarded child in Orillia. I, myself, have made a friend of a little cigheyoar-old girl. I send her a parcel nearly every month, little gifts, cards at Christmas, Valentine Day, St. Patrick's Day and Easter, sometimes a toy or candy. mitts last winter and socks. Then this week I went up to see her and took her a parcel and a little girl's purse. All of the children that our members are helping are children whom: parents and relatiVes have completely disowned them. They never have any contacts outside the Home nor do they ever receive a gift. So you can imagine how this poor little thing the other day nearly went into fits when I took her and kissed her and gave her this parcel. I‘m sure all the other members of our branch who sponsor a child have the same satisfaction from it as I do. We also donate to the school for retarded children here at Ajasâ€"it takes pupils from Whitby, Ajax. Pickering and the surrounding area. It is only a day schoolâ€"the children do not stay there overnight. When I was presi- 26 dent of the Institute I used to visit times." From Mrs. Bill Coe, Maxwell Instr boy in our community whose speecl' ' fected needed to go to the city for : that would take two weeks, and it it.- sary for an adult to go with him. Sit stitute gave money to pay for board ‘ of them while they had to be in the citj. Mrs. J. E. Ullman, Kohler Institutr. This year Kobler Institute gave a ( party for the staff and pupils of the i School for Retarded Children. It wa< party. The tables were nicely deeoo each member sat beside a child in quainted and perhaps lend a hand. ’i dren were thrilled to go to a real pa: hall. They arrived at noon with the p. Mrs. Baldwin, her assistant. Mrs. Hm! bus drivers and two mothers who look. them that day on the bus. A comnllilL“; members cooked all the food and SKI-r The Principal said it was one of the - most enjoyable events and one that the c often spoke of afterwards . . . It was happy and rewarding time for all of u< u really felt it was a job well done. We '1' do something for the children again near future." , . . For the past five years Thornton I.” has been saving used greeting cards and ~ for the Sheltered Workshop for It" workers at Barrie. Hour AND cm: i"