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Memorandum preparing for Trustees meeting that includes a ten-month financial report and draft criteria for Africa Fund projects. The Africa Fund has given priority to projects sponsored by movements struggling for independence, such as schools, hospitals, and agricultural projects in Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Angola. Also, the Fund has given emergency assistance to victims of colonial injustices, including families of those imprisoned, refugees, and isolated student from southern Africa confronted with an immediate problem. Occasionally, the Fund has given legal assistance or has sponsored observers to trials of international import. With the changing situation in southern Africa epitomized by the independence of Mozambique, what should our policy be? The criteria give priority to the not-yet-independent areas of southern Africa - South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia. The fundamental difference is that there are at present no liberated areas where educational and medical institutions under the administration of the liberation movements can operate as with Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. Therefore, support generally must be given to projects administered by the liberation movements in border areas, or in adjacent countries. The Africa Fund also might support projects it has a history of supporting in Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and possibly Angola during the transition to nationhood. The memorandum mentions former Portuguese colonies, educational and medical institutions administered by liberation movements, scholarship aid, small-scale emergency assistance, the ujaama program of Tanzania, irrigation, the fishing industry, and community organizations.

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To: Trustees of The Africa Fund

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