| Administrative History | Allocations: 1977-1979, 1981. See later annual reports for any subsequent allocations.
Save the Children (SCF) opened a Child Welfare and Training Centre in Kingstown, St Vincent, in 1964, after a visit to the island made by Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, Chairman of SCF's Foreign Relief Committee, in 1962. The Centre provided care and feeding for children in need and childcare training for local staff, some of whom went on to work in SCF nurseries on the island. In November 1963 medical work was started in St Vincent. St Vincent was included in SCF's Freedom from Hunger campaign, and the work focused on malnutrition, with SCF establishing a supplementary feeding programme and home visiting scheme. When a new children's ward was opened in the general hospital at Georgetown, the SCF doctor took charge of the nutrition ward. In June 1967 SCF New Zealand took over the job of buying and despatching milk for the SCF team in the West Indies.
In 1976 SCF appointed a social worker to run a programme to provide a link between children in St Vincent and their families in the UK. |