The Harvest Scheme
SIR.-800 German students arrived in this country recently to help British farmers with the potato and sugar-beet crops. Once again the Harvest Scheme has been organised by G.E.R. (a society for promot- ing Anglo-German educational relations) in co-operation with the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Agriculture. The farmers as well as the Ministry of Agriculture regard the students' work as invaluable.
Many more students applied to take part in the Harvest Scheme than could be accepted, because so many want to learn about British life and to meet British people. This Scheme can. therefore, mean a real contribution to better international understanding. Lectures and discussions take place in the harvest camps—but this is not enough.
In previous years many British families had a student to stay with them when the harvest was over, and this sharing of ordinary family life was greatly appreciated by students and hosts alike. This year the number of German students is greater than ever before, and still more offers of hospitality arc required for them after they have left the camps. The students, of course, will provide their own pocket- money.
If readers will give their help and offer hospitality, board and lodging to one or more students for any period between early November and mid-December, will they please write to: The Liaison Officer, German Students Harvest Scheme, 43 Parliament Street, London, S.W.I.
London, S.W.I.,
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