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GREECE
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Their final relief work as a team in Greece was to run an assembly centre for Dis- placed Persons of all nation- alities—but mainly soldiers who had been disbanded and given no means of reaching their homes; Yugoslavs and Italians waiting to be repat- riated; women who had married Italians and wanted to join their husbands: all were impatient to get away from this transit camp, but all had to be cared for and kept moderately content until means were found to launch them on the next stage of their journey to their wished-for destinations.
The nurse of the G.I.S. Greek team sets out to inoculate villagers
The dietitian of the team was asked by UNRRA to make a survey of the sur- rounding districts and their needs. A mule was the only suitable form of transport to the mountainous districts she visited, so for a fortnight she journeyed from village to village establishing soup kitchens, organising milk distribution and the supply of drugs, inoculating villagers, and arranging for the establish- ment of clinics.
At the beginning of April, 1946, the Greek Government considered that it could, and should, take over its own welfare work and social services. Reluctantly, know- ing how much remained to be done, the team embarked for England on May 17th, after giving a training course for Greeks, and distributing G.I.S. stores where they were most needed in the country. Postscript.—Since then there have been other outbreaks of civil war, and the country has suffered greatly; but in the forefront of relief wor- kers are Greek Guides and Guiders, who received their initial impetus and training from the G.I.S. team in 1945 and J946. Two members of the Greek team, Miss Margaret Pilkington (Leader from 1944 until January, 1946) and Miss Muriel Lees visited Greece in April of this year, and were received enthusiastically by the Greek friends they had made while working with them.
Two friends of the Greek team—the cook. Anna, and the gatekeeper's daughter Anita—with Hapjikiriakion, the assembly centre where the team worked lor nine months, in the background. In April 1050, the building was still being used as a displaced persons' centre, and among its 500 inhabitants were twelve who had been there since 1045
Girl with family parcel and boy with probably his first toy: gifts taken by Greek Girl Guides this year to a burnt- out village where the G.I.S. team dis- tributed clothing in 1945
Girl with family parcel and boy with probably his first toy: gifts taken by Greek Girl Guides this year to a burnt- out village where the G.I.S. team dis- tributed clothing in 1945,
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