Field Coverage

UNKRA's Help to Korea

1 January 1955

The UN Korean Reconstruction Agency initiated in 1953 a programme for ""Community Development Employment"" (with the help of an expert from the UN Technical Assistance Administration), whereby villagers were encouraged to utilize their spare time to undertake community improvements, such as irrigation and flood control projects, construction of bridges and roads, installation or repair of public wells, drainage systems, sewers, etc., or land reclamation for cultivation. Villagers have contributed about 600,000 days to approximately 500 projects. UNKRA has contributed a total of $60,000 (HW 21,000,000) towards the implementation of this programme.
Here, a UNKRA Community Development Employment Officer explains to a group of Koreans how to plan the irrigation projects needed by their village. [No exact date]

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