1. Many babies are picked off the streets ready to die. A foundling home in Taegu is nursing these back to health. (NAE Photo) 2. Over 10,000 Korean boys and girls have limbs amputated as a result of frostbite or war injury. (NAE Photo)
Just one of 200,000 war orphans. Only one-third in orphanages. Where are the other 130,000 this winter? (World Vision Photo by Bob Pierce) 4. A typical case of malnu trition in Taegu. (NAE Photo) 5. Homeless boys sleep ing on the street at night in Pusan. • (NAE Photo)
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and arms, or feet and legs. These children grope, or hop and hobble about Korea. “Can you, by the strongest sketch of your imagination put your own little boy or girl in the place of a Korean orphan?” How can you turn them down? Their destitution is greater than we can express. We must minister to their physical needs as well as to their spiritual longings. Send con tribu tion * fo r K o r ea n r e lie f to : The Oriental Missionary Society 900 North Hobart Blvd. Los Angeles, Calif.
alone? This is tragic in itself; but far more tragic than the dead litter- ering the fields are the living rem nants left behind after death has tak en its toll. ‘Tve seen these orphan children in the early dawn of sub-zero morn ing as they lined the streets alongside of buildings, underneath stairways, in gutters. They had frozen to death in their sleep. I have seen others later on the same day, under the warmer rays of a winter’s sun, as they tried to catch 'a bit of sleep for they had kept active all night to keep from freezing to death while they slept. “As estimated, 25,000 children have been caught in the cross fires of bat tle and have either lost eyes, hands
KOREA TODAY
No, these are not war pictures. They are up-to-date photographs showing true conditions in Korea to- , day—months after the war has ended. Read this heart-breaking report right from Korea by OMS missionary, Ed Kilboume: “Did you know there have been more than five million casualties
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