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[Distributed to the Council, the A .
Members of the League and the
Delegates at the Assembly.]
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
September 11 th, 1923.
Work
of the
Commission for the Protection of Women and Children
in the Near East
Note by the Secretary-General.
The Secretary-General has the honour to forward for the information of the Assembly:
(a) A Report from Dr. KENNEDY, Chairman of the Commission for the Protection of
Women and Children in the Near East:
(b) A Report from Miss JEPPE on the work of the Aleppo Branch of the Commission.
a) REPORT BY DOCTOR KENNEDY, CHAIRMAN OF TilE COMMISSION FOR
THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE NEAR EAST.
Coustautinople, July 21st, 1923.
The work of the Comnmission has been developed ou purely international and huma-
nitarian lines and seeks to carry out the executive work committed to them by the Assembly
last year : namely, the rehabilitation of destitute women and children who have been detached
from their families during the events of the lastfew years. These events have led to considerable
distress, and in the consequent confusion, no proper records or information have been avail-
able that would facilitate the early return of these women and children to a normal life
among their owii people.
The most urgent matter that has engaged the attention of the Commission is the problem
of children, of whom there are many thousands distributed throughout the Near East. The
League of Nations House has become a sort of clearing-house through which children are passed
to other institutions, homes, or to their own people. During the interval of their stay in
the House, they are fed and clothed.
It often happens that the children do not pass through the Ilouse but are dealt with
as soon as contact with them is established, so that in many cases a single visit to the I-louse
has been sufficient to give permnanent aid to the child. 'he Commission is iii touch' with
the various national, official, and relief agencies, and this makes it possible to arrange for
the welfare of any children who come within the scope of the Commission.
During the six months of this year, seventy-eight children have been in residence in the
building, but the largest number at one time was thirty, and the usual average is in the
vicinity of twenty-five. These seventy-eight children have been properly clothed and fed
before passing on.
During the winter, over three hundred children were assisted inl various ways without
being received into the House but for whom direct application for assistance was made
there. In addition to this, liss Caris Mills, the Directress of the House, has taken an active
interest in the thousands of children who have beei scattered about the city and in the
various camps. She has drawn the attention of relief societies to their condition and thus
obtained relief for them. Iii this way, for example, important aid has been given by the
Christian Science Belief Comnnuittee of America, under the charge of Chaplain Benson, of the
United States Navy, who has carried on special feeding for women and children in the large
camps. No distinction of any kind has been made in regard to race or religion, although
the majority of applications for aid come from the lion-Turkish population.
The children passing through theI House have been disposed of by being returned to
their relatives, by being transferred to their national institutions, and by adoption.
Concerning the children aided outside, help has been given by assisting then, to their
relatives, by arranging medical and hospital freatnient, and by assisting them to attend
school or to emigrate. In this conuection, Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, the President of the
American Women's Hospitals, gave money for mediciues and medical treatment.
S. d. N. 1900 (F) + 1200 (A) 9/21 Imp. Jent, S. A.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.unl/wcpwc0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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