WORK CAMP HOLIDAYS

THIS week I am going to tell you about various work camp organisations to which you can apply if you want that sort of holiday.
1 know, from last year, how much you value this information. But please don't write to me, even with a stamped and addressed envelope. for "further information." 1 am giving you here all the details
have.
I hear from Concordia that their camps abroad are more or less filled already, and that fresh applicants are likely to he disappointed. So I shall give you particulars only of their international fruitpicking camps in this country.
A 51 DAY WEEK QTRAWBERRY-PICK
"" ING, raspberry-picking, hop-picking, market-gardening, general farming are all offered between the months of May and September in Hampshire, Worcestershire (boys only), Norfolk, Sussex and Angus. Each individual camping period lasts three weeks.
Volunteers must be between 16 and 25 years of age. Normal working hours are 40144 hours over a 5l day week. Volunteers are paid by the hour at a rate that ranges from 3s. 4d. (for boys over 20) to Is, 8d. (for girls of 16). Volunteers pay a board-andlodging fee of £3 a week, and there is plenty of time for "social recreation" in the evenings and at weekends. For foreign volunteers some knowledge of English is essential. Further details from: The Recruitment Secretary, "Concordia", 188 Brompton Road, London, S.W.3. (Enclose s.a.e., of course.)
N.U.S. FARM CAMPS
A LEAFLET of the National Union of Students is headed: "Earn, Learn, and Enjoy Life at an N.U.S. Farm Camp". The largest of these camps are at Tiptree and Rookery in the Norfolk Broads.
Here the camps begin in June and run throughout the summer into October, and the weekly fee for board and lodging is 50s.
Last year about 2,000 students of 20 nationalities met to work together and enjoy their vacations in N.U.S. Farm Camps. "All the facilities for friendship and entertainments are readily available .." Students from abroad have to be members of their own National Students' Organisation. Apply for details to: Farm Camps Organiser, N.U.S., 3 Endsleigh Street, London, W.C.1.
You can apply also for particulars of their camps abroad, which are not yet ready at the moment of
writing but will be by the time this is published.
Details of voluntary work camps, where you labour for love and at work more immediately directed to the welfare of the world, I shall give you in a week or two.
'PAX CHRISTI' IN SPAIN
NEXT, 1 have received details of the "Pax Christi Routes" for 1960. The dates are August 17-28, and the place Catalonia, Spain.
Ten routes will set out from different starting points to converge on the shrine of Montserrat. The subject for discussion will be: "The 'Underdeveloped countries", and the subject for meditation: "Lord, make me an instrument of Thy PEACE" (St. Francis). For further details write to John Geary, 66 Evering Road, London, N.16.
I would very much like any of you who go on a Pax Christi route to write and tell me about it afterwards, as one of you did last year, to the benefit of us all,
FILIPINOS CALLING ..
THE following four stu
dents, aged 18, in the Philippines, arc all most anxious to correspond with English boys and girls: Jose T. Ylanan, 414-A Junquera Ext., Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines; Imelda Malt% 1293 Lardtzabal, Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines; Pedro Q. Corpuz, Culion Sanatorium, Culion, Palavan, Philippines; Alberto Molabay, Pinamalayan Oriental Mindoro, Panggerlayan Lem 3, Philippines. Can you oblige?
I suggest that you write to the one whose christian name most nearly resembles your own. Like that, you won't all write simply to the first on the list! And don't be put off by thinking the Philippines are so far away.