Contents: REFUGEE AID PROJECTS • EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE • 1981: A Year of Transition for The Africa Fund • SPECIAL PROJECTS • RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS, AND EDUCATION • 1981 Financial Results • THE AFRICA FUND • THE FUTURE AND THE AFRICA FUND • Trustees • Advisory Committee • The annual report for 1981 discusses The Africa Fund's support to the Women's Council of the African National Congress, to help finance a daycare center for South African refugees in Zambia, and to the SWAPO Women's Council, for a project designed to provide vocational training for women refugees to equip them to play a role in building a new Namibia. The report includes a copy of a letter from SWAPO of...
Contents: REFUGEE AID PROJECTS • EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE • 1981: A Year of Transition for The Africa Fund • SPECIAL PROJECTS • RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS, AND EDUCATION • 1981 Financial Results • THE AFRICA FUND • THE FUTURE AND THE AFRICA FUND • Trustees • Advisory Committee • The annual report for 1981 discusses The Africa Fund's support to the Women's Council of the African National Congress, to help finance a daycare center for South African refugees in Zambia, and to the SWAPO Women's Council, for a project designed to provide vocational training for women refugees to equip them to play a role in building a new Namibia. The report includes a copy of a letter from SWAPO of Namibia to Paul Irish of The Africa Fund confirming the arrival of 91 boxes of pharmaceuticals for Namibia refugees in Angola. The report comments on difficulties during 1981, as resistance and repression intensified in southern Africa while the new Reagan administration embarked on its dangerous policy of "constructive engagement." The report says Pretoria sought to ensure that no state in southern Africa would dare help that struggle, wiping out villages in Angola, making hit-and-run attacks vital targets in Mozambique, and assassinating ANC leaders in Zimbabwe. The report says George Houser and Jennifer Davis both traveled to southern Africa in 1981 to follow up Africa Fund medical assistance projects, and Houser met with health officials in Zimbabwe and Mozambique about their programs to bring health care to the countryside; he also met with South African refugees in Zambia and Tanzania who described self-help projects they are building. The report discusses Frank C. Montero, the Women's Council of the African National Congress (ANC), the Namibian Medical Refugee Aid Drive, the Mozambique Ministry of Foreign Affairs, books, archives, Dumisani Kumalo, apartheid, the Sullivan Principles, Fluor, divestment, Theo-Ben Gurirab, the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), colleges, the Public Broadcasting System, Joe Hamill, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Council of Churches (NCC), the Council on Interracial Books, the United Auto Workers (UAW), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), student activists, and a daycare center.
