Record

LevelSub-sub-series
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)SCF/OP/4/MAZ
TitleMauritius
Extent11 files
Date1971-1987
DescriptionContains papers concerning Save the Children Fund's engagement with programmes in Mauritius, primarily through Save the Children Mauritius.
Access StatusOpen
Administrative HistoryAllocations: 1964-1966, 1980-1990. See later annual reports for subsequent allocations.

A former crown colony, Mauritius became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1968, and a republic in 1992.

In March 1960, SCF sent £500 to the Mauritius Cyclone Fund. In 1964, SCF gave assistance through the UK National Freedom From Hunger Campaign to a project to train 14-year-old boys on the island of Rodrigues to become farmers. This opened on 16 July 1965. It seems to have been supported for another year. In 1980, SCF gave a grant to Mauritius for which no details were given. In 1981 a sponsorship programme started. Grants in the 1980s appear to have been related to mother and child health.

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