They were Prepared
Summary
IT is six years since the first G.I.S. team went overseas to help bring relief to the stricken people of Europe—the destitute, the homeless, the sick and the helpless.
For six years they have worked steadily, wherever the need was most urgent. They have been within sound of the guns of war; they were in the midst of the chaos of the first days of peace.
They have seen bewilderment give place to a surging hope. They have watched that hope settle down to a more or less resigned patience, waiting on political events. From north and east and south, men, women and children have drifted or fled to the camps in their charge.
And now ? The task is finished for most organised relief workers. On June 30th the remnants of the " Displaced Persons were handed over to the German Federal Government. These are the " hard core " of approximately 60.000. of whom more than half are unable to work and a tenth will need institutional care, and will probably be regarded only as a burden on the country's economy.
But the task of the G.I.S. in Europe is not yet finished.
Thirteen members have been asked to stay on in Resettlement Camps. They have been asked because the authorities have recognised the value of the team-work and practical commonsense with which these representatives of Guiding have undertaken apparently impossible tasks and faced seemingly insoluble problems.
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