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I IN A YEAR when our nation's commitment to end poverty and injustice was threatened and the menace of nuclear warfare loomed ever larger, the I

American Friends Service Committee remained steadfast in its commitment to relieve suffering, speak out for justice, and seek peace among groups and nations.

Through the generosity of our contributors, we have been able to continue il; 1 some places to expand our services for refugees, our work to halt the nuclear a m race, our efforts to assist men and women working to build a better life for their communities, and our commitment to overcome the denial of rights on the basis of race, sex, and nationality.

We believe that the ultimate answers to our problems lie within the irrepressible human spirit and that simple acts of human caring speak to the deep spiritual longings of our age. We have gathered for you here a few highlights illustrating a year of adventuring in that faith.

A WORLD IN TURMOIL: AFSC relief for Refugees and War Victims

Today, the largest number of displaced persons in the world is in the Horn of Africa, where thousands upon thousands of men and women have been driven from their homelands by drought and mfa re . Many now live dispiritedly in government feeding shelters. In addition to sending emergeacy relief supplies, AFSC-at the

invitation of the Ethiopian govermlent-laid plans to help 100 nomad families re- establish thenlselves and their herds. Similar pilot work will be undertaken in Somalia.

Having achieved in- dependence in 1980, the new nation of Zimbabwe is strug- gling to resettle people displaced by the long civil war, and to revive their

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economic enterprises. AFSC has aided in the set- ting up of schools and cooperatives, and is organizing a training program for paramedics.

Refugees in Indochina are a special concern to AFSC. Along the Thai border, thousands of Laotians, including Hmong people from the hills, are crowded into camps. AFSC's program has included the preparation and translation of a health pamphlet into the Hmong language, as well as aiding widows and abandoned mothers to become self-sufficient.

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In Kampuchea, efforts are now going into such projects as re- building schools in Kompong Cham Proviqce, immunizing of

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bmbl&s-that still lie buried in the soil, AFSC &s beu:n supplying shovels to replace the tradi- I

t&& koes gg that farmers will not explode the kx&!bs as they dig in the soil. 1

I ~ ~ i t ; h e United States as well, 1981 has been a ycza d deep concern for refugees, especially the saka&rans who have been crossing our borders I

in bcreasing n u m k s in flight from the rep~essive regime &I El Salvador. Other I

Salsadag&~ r e f ~ p e s ate in Mexico, where the M h Friends Service Committee provides ass*Wsnce, and in Honduras, Panama and Nicaragua, where the AFSC Central American Wegnsentatives help in food production, health

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cattle in two pro- vinces, and devel- oping a simple artificial leg and brace program for people who lost limbs during the U.S. bombing or under the Pol Pot regime. r

We are also concerned for the Haitians who mine to our shores in leaky, unsafe boats, fleeing econanie privation and political repression in Haiti. AFSC staff arid lacal Friends meetings have

I worked with Salvadoran and Haitian groups. to try to pmvide these, people with legal representa- tien 'so they can apply for asylum, in the face of a U.S. Government policy that appears to disr coxwage such efforts.

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Threatening human survival itself is the nuelear arms race between the great powers. During 1981, AFSC mounted a nationwide "Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race", a campaign which gained momenturn as more and more community, school and church groups have answered the call. Disarmament staff members helped to organize this mass movement. AFSC represen- tatives travelled in Europe, keeping in touch with the anti-nuclear movement developing overseas.

Having worked for decades to improve com- munications be- tween the USSR and the U.S., AFSC spons~red * the visit of a . Soviet arms con- trol expert to this country last March, and at the end of 1981 sent a U.S. schohr of nuclear disama- ment to visit her counterparts in the Soviet Union.

Neither peace nor stability have yet arrived for the nations of Indochina. In March, AFSC organized a seminar of persons from the ASEAN countries ( W a n d , Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines], and has been working to bring representatives of these nations to the conference table with those of Vietnam, Laos and Kampuchea in order to ease the deadlock between the two groups.

Bringing Vietnamese to the United States for discussions with Americans was another peacemaking effort in which AESC participated in the past year. We have also continued to sup- port reconstruction in Vietnam, providing technical assistance, including a small number of heart pacemakers. A larger number-3,000-were given to the People's Republic of China for use in hospitals in Peking and Shanghai.

Efforts to increase communication between I

North and South Korea have continued. Of special interest was an AFSGsponsored con- I ference of the various Korean groups in this country on the question of reuniting families separated by the present North-South lime of demarcation.

In the Middle East, ongoing work to make I

dialogue more possible between Israelis and Arabs had several results, among them a visit I

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A WORLD OPPRESSED: AFSC's Defense of Economic and Human Rights

from two West Bank Palestinian mayors to this country, and the completion of a book, A Com- passionate Peace A &&re for the Middle East, to be published in 1982.

The threat to world peace posed by continuing apartheid in South Africa was the focus of a study, Automating Apartheid, by NARMIC (National ActiodResearch on the Military Industrial Complex). It revealed the degree to which U.S. firms contribute to surveillance of Blacks and others interested in liberation. Another new AFSC book an South Africa will be published in 1982.

Military preparedness in this country is very likely to lead to a military draft. Accordingly, AFSC renewed efforts to alert youth to alter- natives to conscription. We added an important new dimension to its draft counseling work- working with youth in poor and Third World communities who are particularly vulnerable to what is called the "economic draftu-in programs in Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore, and San Francisco. A nationwide conference on registration and the draft in Third World com- munities was held.

During 1981, AFSC vigorously supported the campaign of men and women of Japanese descent who were interned during World War I1 in viola- tion of their civil rights. AFSC, which strongly opposed their internment in 1942, recently testified in both national and regional hearings in SUP

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port of redress of the wrongs done in wartime.

rk on issues of fundamental human rights in ; country included issuing a statement decry- the resurgence of the-Xu Klux Klan, and co- nsoring with the ~rnehcan Civil Liberties ion a conference on the rights of gay men and ians facing the law.

n case scheduled for review by the U.S. Supreme B u r t regarding public education for the children of aliens, AFSC ,entered an amicus brief 1 supporting the right of all children to free educa- tion. In another action concerning the right of 1 minority and women employees of a bank in Chicago to back pay because of discrimination, AFSC joined other groups in asking the Labor Department not to overturn an order that such payment be made.

Human rights abroad is the concern of the Human RightslGlobal Justice Program which focuses national attention on countries which

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violate basic human rights while receiving U.S. AFSC's Women in the Work Force Program in aid. This work is shared by the Quaker United North Carolina informs women working in the Nations Program in New York, which keeps dominant furniture industry about the health track of issues of peace and justice at the U.N. hazards from chemicals they face. Another new

emphasis has been ensuring that both women Concern for the men and women who live on and minority men are employed in federally- both sides of the Mexico-U.S. Border led AFSC to assisted construction projects.

I speak out against the administration's suggestion that a temporary U.S. Foreign Workers program In 1981, AFSC supported American Indians in be reinstated. Searching for solutions to the their struggle fo regain possession of the Black economic inequalities between communities Hills, and facilitated Indians in Maine preparing along the border, AFSC has continued to support educational materials on Indian history and small economic enterprises, such as cooperatives culture. We continued our work against the and workers organizations. We also monitor the death penalty and construction of new prisons, situation of the women workers who are and sponsored a conference of youth on the rela- employed in the assembly plants or "maquil- tionships between the educational and juvenile adoras", owned by transnational companies justice systems. which have factories south of the border in order An AFSC Task Force has stressed the urgency of to benefit from low wages. the crises affecting inner-city residents who

perceive that the systems controlling their lives-government, the economy, the justice and school systems-regard them as expendable. In Miami, where violence flared last year, a new program focuses on the problems of jobless I Black youth. I

Everywhere, abandonment ~ of needed services is hurting the people we work with. I

We endeavor to help low income men and women I regain needed aid and pro- , tection, and to protest retreat from effective implementa- tion of affirmative action.

The year ended as it began, with many challenges and a I renewed faith in the power of love to meet fresh oppor- tunities in a creative spirit.

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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE. INC . Statement of Income and Expenses for the year ended September 30. 1981

Income was provided by: Contributions (including donated materials of $128. 404) ......................... Bequests (including matured annuity and life income gifts of $721. 628) .............

TotalPublicSupport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fees and Grants from Government Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Other Income: Investment income. net of related fees (including gainsllosses

. . . . . . . . . on investment transactions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProgramServiceFees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

TotalOtherIncome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total Income

Expenses for: Programs

Overseas: promoting economic and social justice. international understanding. human rights and the relief of human suffering (including donated materials of $130. 48 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Seeking peace. reconciliation and disarmament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In the U.S.A.: rooting out those causes of violence which lie in poverty.

exclusion and the denial of rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Programs (including contributions of $61. 660 to other service agencies) . . . . . . .

TotalPrograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Supporting Services for Programs

Administration. Personnel. Accounting. Infbrmation Services. etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fundraising

Total Supporting Services for Programs . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PropertyandEquipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TotalExpenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Increase (decrease) of Income over Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A copy of the complete financial statement audited by a C.P.A. firm is available upon request from AFSC Accounting Department. 1501 Cherry Street. Philadelphia. PA 19102 .

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for the year ended Septembe- "^ ' 981 UNRE

Income was provided by: Contributions (including donated materials of $128,404). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bequests (including matured annuity and life income gifts of $721,628) . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total Public Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fees and Grants from Government Agencies.

Other Income: Investment income, net of related fees (including gainsllosses

on investment transactions). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProgramServiceFees

Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Expenses for: Programs

Overseas: promoting economic and social justice, international understanding, human rights and the relief of human suffering (including donated materials of $130,481) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seeking peace, reconciliation and disarmament.

In the U.S.A.: rooting out those causes of violence which lie in poverty, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . exclusion and the denial of rights.

Special Programs (including contributions of $61,660 to other service agencies). . . . . . .

Supporting Services for Programs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Administration, Personnel, Accounting, Information Services, etc.

Fundraising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Total Supporting Services for Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . Property and Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TotalExpenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Increase (decrease) of Income over Expenses.

A copy of the complete financial statement audited by a C.P.A. firm is available upon request from AFSC Accounting Department, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102.