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ORT Seeking Village Blacksmith
NEW YORK (JTA) — If
the village blacksmith once
celebrated in verse is still at
the forge, an American
Jewish organization wants
to post him — or her — to a
South Sea island kingdom.
The organization is the
American ORT Federation,
the kingdom is Tonga, and
the job, to train farmers in
the use of plows, shoeing
horses and repair of small
farm equipment. Smith
skills are missing in Tonga,
where, whith small farm
plots and an abundance of
horses, plowing is best done
bv animal.
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smith-trainer at the
request of the Foundation
for the Peoples of the South
Pacific (FSP), a fellow pri-
vate voluntary organization
under a grant from the
United States Agency for
International Development
(AID).
The Tonga project fits a
well-established ORT ac-
tivity. For 20 years ORT's
Technical Assistance
Department has con-
ducted development and
training programs in the
Third world, with an
emphasis on "training
trainers." Local person-
nel called "counterparts"
are involved in projects
which they eventually
take over, allowing ORT
to "phase in-phase out."
ORT technical assistance
programs are funded
largely by governmental
and non-governmental
bodies like AID and the
World Bank. They started
with a call from the State
Department requesting
ORT to study manpower
needs and the feasibility of
meeting them in eight Afri-
can countries.
The reports led to opera-
tions in Guinea and Mali
which later became pioneer-
ing case book studies not
only for ORT and what later
became the Agency for In-
ternational Development of
the State Department, but
also for other practitioners
in the field.
Altogether, 50 countries
in Africa, Asia, South
America and the Middle
East have been reached by
ORT technical assistance
programs, including the
training of teachers at the
Central ORT Institute in
Switzerland.
Examples of current
programs are mainte-
nance of port facilities in
Burma, micro-electronic
and data processing de-
-lopment in Turkey, a
year program for
managers and techni-
cians in bauxite mining in
iinea and maintenance
1hp, Zaire's roads and road
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-
equipment. Also, in Zaire,
on-the-job training in
running that country's
243 ferries.
The blacksmith who
takes on the Tonga project
will work under the aegis of
the prime minister, Prince
Tui'pelehake — brother of
the king — according to
Stanley Hosie, FSP execu-
tive director.
Graduates of the program
are entitled to a cart and
horse, which are not always
where they should be. In one
demonstration by an FSP
officer, there was only one
horse for nine students. The
Tongans worked the animal
so enthusiastically that a
second had to be substituted
before class was over.
Tonga (population
92,000) is a stretch of
Polynesian islands in the
South Pacific between
Hawaii and New Zealand.
Every male there over 16 is
entitled to land, which is
generally arable, but in
short supply, and some of
which is volcanic.
Also for the Founda-
tion of the Peoples of the
South Pacific, ORT
supervised design and
construction of two
mobile agricultural stor-
age vans for Western
Samoa, another island
kingdom. The vans are
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ternational Council of Jews
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bins and audio visual
equipment and will
travel over rough roads
to demonstrate for local
farmers the use of im-
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on GM diesel trucks and
were hand-crafted by
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early August to a reception
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