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The UNKRA is importing aid goods of all types to Korea at the rate of more than $1,000,000 per month. It is expected that by the end of 1956, $140,000,000 worth of aid goods will have been provided to Korea by UNKRA. Here, a truck, purchased in the United Kingdom with UNKRA funds, is being unloaded at the port of Kunsan. Trucks such as this one are being sold to the Koreans in order to bolster their transportation industry. 1955. [Photograph X3001]

Three girls in traditional costume in hydro farm inauguration. [Photograph 3107]

Cadets having a discussion in their cabin at the Merchant Marine Academy. Bang Bok Kill, Kim Sang Soo, Kim Young Hui, Chin Kap Sun. 19 January 1956. [Photograph 3385]

A British engineer employed by UNKRA given technical assistance in the machine repair shop. With his help much of the damaged plant at Samchok cement plant has been put back into operation again. [Photograph 2756]. The British engineer is William Kirk, then 31. Before William became an engineer, he was a coal miner from County Durham, U.K. [Information provided by brenda Kirk.]

As a result of a gift of $16,000 from the UN Women's Guild, UNKRA has erected four more buildings at the National Rehabilitation Centre at Tongnae, Korea, for a children's section which includes a kitchen, bath house, physiotherapy room and dormitories, all equipped with this money. (As of now, since the establishment of the Centre, UNKRA has allocated $612,780 to repair and expand the buildings, to install modern prosthetic equipment and to start vocational training courses; it also sent a team of rehabilitation experts). At present the Centre has 200 veterans and 56 civilian patients. A choice of 14 vocational training courses make it possible for everyone to find a trade suited to his abilities.) -- This picture, taken in the Centre's physiotherapy room, shows a Korean nurse helping two of her youngest patients, both polio victims, to crawl up a ramp. Such exercises, which straighten and strengthen the limbs, soon became popular games with the children as they grow stronger. Tongnae, Korea, Aug. 1956. [Photograph 4291]

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Dredge was manufactured in Hawaii and sent to Korea in December 1953. Expenditures included also initial operational costs and technical assistance in operating dredge, training of Korean crew, and repair parts for existing ROK dredges. [Photograph 3026]