December 6, 1979

Episcopalians Called To Assist Cambodians

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Episcopal News Service

[Infants die every day fro...]
Infants die every day from starvation in Kampuchea (Cambodia) and 80 percent of the children suffer from malnutrition. Observers returning from Kampuchea tell of seeing "very few children under the age of five years." The principal food crop of this once gentle, lush country is rice. Because of the war, most of this year's rice crop was not planted and the people have eaten the seedlings in order to stay alive. Episco- palians and others may respond to Presiding Bishop John M. Allin's call to contribute "to help our suffering sisters and brothers in Cambodia" through the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief, 815 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. (Photo Credit: Oxfam America).