1633+ the ond of seven years of cruel war Algeria finds herself with 250,000 orphans, 800,000 returned refugees, thousands of villages laid waste, 80% of her people illiterate, whole regions deprived of medical cara, hundreds of factories abandoned by their managements, her economy disorganised by the mass= ive emigration of Europeans,
Algeria needs teachers, doctors, industrial and farm specialists, technical training officers; men who are ready to share, generously, their knowledge with the Algerian people,
Algeria needa material equipment in every field: tractors, mobile surgeries and dispensaries, sanitary equipment, educational material, books for libraries,
Algeria needa food for her children, clothing, drugs.
Algeria needs people to understand her problems, her efforts, her hopes, She needs people to tell, loud and clear, the truth which has so often been travestied,
At the time that the Algerian working people are affirming thoir will to take their future into their own hands, and declare that they are becinning on the road to socialism, the 150 delegates who have come from ten countries to the Buropean Confersnce on Non-Governmental aid to Algeria, from 15-19th June, 1963, address an urgent appeal to international opinion to rally to the help of new Algerian, We appeal particularly to the labour organisations, trade unions, co-operatives, youth movements, local authorities, peasant associations, intellectuals, to undertake to this purpose speedy and human itarian action, | The heroic struggle of the Algerian people for independence has called forth the admiration of the whole world.
Long live solidarity between Algeria and Europe.