africa fund projects: angola, guinea, mozambique

The brochure describes projects being supported by The Africa Fund that support people struggling to be liberated from colonial rule in "Portuguese" Africa. It also describes the oppression of Portuguese colonialism that created the need for these projects and the armed struggle for independence. The five projects are: (1) a medical dispensary for the eastern frontier of Angola; (2) The Friendship Institute providing education in Guinea Bissau; (3) Solidarity Hospital with the people of Guinea-Bissau, located in Conakry; (4) Mozambique Institute's Secondary School at Bagamoyo, Tanzania; and (5) a project of the Mozambique Institute at Americo Boavida Hospital at Mtwara, Tanzania. The brochure says the Africa Fund, created in 1965, is an independent, voluntary, tax-exempt organization. Its purposes include: 1. Defend human and civil rights of needy Africans by providing or financing legal assistance; 2. Provide medical relief to Africans, particularly refugees; 3. Render aid to indigent Africans, in the U.S., Africa or elsewhere, who are suffering economic, legal or social injustices or displacements and who appear worthy of such aid; 4. Provide educational aid or grants to worthy Africans, particularly refugees; 5. Inform the American public about the needs of Africans for charitable and educational assistance; and 6. Engage in nonpartisan study, research and analysis related to Africa and make the results available to the public. Africa Fund Board of Trustees includes Frank Montero, Edler Hawkins, Andrew Norman, George M. Houser, Issac Bivens, Edward Gray, Marvin Harris, Sophia Yarnall Jacobs, William B. Landis, Kenneth A. McClane, Israel Mowshowitz, Jan Van Hoogstraaten, and Peter Weiss. The report discusses the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), forced labor, the United Nations Trust Fund for Southern Africa, the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, the World Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches, Church World Service, local African Christian Councils, specialized agencies of the United Nations (UNHCR, Scholarship Programs), the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO), N.A.T.O. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO), assassination, Amilcar Cabral, the United Nations Fourth Committee on Decolonization, Medical Assistance Services of Angola (Servico de Assistencia Medica, SAM), a Special Mission of the United Nations, Pioneer Committees, the Conkary Pilot School, Dr. M. Boal, doctors, nurses, Dar es Salaam, Tunduru, the Finnish Secondary School Student Association, Mario Sive, a Portuguese fragmentation bomb, Janet Mondlane, the slave trade, Zaire, herbicide defoliation, Congo (Brazzaville), artificial villages more easily controlled by the Portuguese military, bombings with napalm, medical supplies, and armed revolt.