Junior Red Cross The American Junior Red Cross is made up of over 19 million boys and girls in elementary and secondary schools who participate in Red Cross services as a regular part of their school programs. Directed by teachers who, in turn, work with the chapter, junior members com¬bine learning with serving. They develop a per¬sonal sense of social responsibility by helping to meet needs at home and abroad. Last year they made 4,000,000 garments, toys, and other useful gifts on school sewing machines, lathes, and desks for patients in military, veterans, and civilian hospitals and for children across the sea or in orphanages nearby. Through international exchange of art and school correspondence albums, American Junior Red Cross members de¬scribed American home, school, and com¬munity life to children in more than 40 other nations. They sent overseas tons of cloth, braille equipment, paper, and other urgently needed supplies for children in war-scarred countries. More than 300 thank-you letters pour in daily from grateful youngsters. The gifts they sent overseas last year totaled 215 high school chests worth $125 each, 469,000 gift boxes valued at $2 each, and $465,057 worth of school and health sup¬plies; 5,000 pieces of student art, 2,500 school correspondence albums, and 1,000 albums of re¬corded school music. Dur- ingtheyear, membersof the Junior Red Cross earned 300,000 certificates in Red Cross health and safety courses and contributed countless hours of service to their chapters and com¬munity institutions. 22 International Activities The American Red Cross has international as well as national obligations. They include as¬sisting other Red Cross societies in time of major disaster abroad, close liaison with inter national Red Cross groups and the United Nations, and strengthening national Red Cross societies in all parts of the world. Last year, reviews of the Geneva and prisoner-of-war treaties, initiated by the International Committee of the Red Cross, culminated in the adoption by a formal dip¬lomatic conference of sweeping revisions of these treaties and a new treaty for the war¬time protection of civilians, a high mark in 85 years of Red Cross efforts to minimize the effects of war. The year, too, was marked by United Nations recognition of the International Red Cross as an effective international welfare organization. The United Nations called on the International Red Cross to administer its 332,000,000 relief program for Palestinian refugees and to work for the repatriation of Greek children displaced by the fighting in that country. The American Red Cross sent supplies and personnel for both of these missions. Assistance to Red Cross societies and dis¬tressed peoples in foreign countries continued on a limited scale. Material aid valued at 3615,306 went to 20 countries; consultants on Red Cross activity worked with 13 sister societies; and 34 Red Cross workers from 15 countries benefited from study visits, schol-arships, and fellowships in the United States. Approximately 3135,000 worth of relief sup¬plies was rushed to earthquake-devastated Ecuador and three American Red Cross dis¬aster workers sent to advise the Ecuadorian Red Cross on emergency relief and disaster preparedness programs. 23