hearted, bound by her birth and upbringing to have a strong sense 
     
     of purpose and duty and the highest standards. 
     
    

    
     Mrs. Watt, President of ACWW, (and co-founder of it) said 
     
     when Lady Aberdeen died in 1939 — “There has been sorrow in the 
     
     hearts of all country women at the passing of a great country wo— 
     
     man, Ishbel, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, — world citizen, 
     
     an interpreter of the best of humanity in every land, a lover of 
     
     peace for its own sake —— For ten years Lady Aberdeen was the 
     
     Honorary President of the Associated Country Women of the World. 
     
     We owed our beginnings to her, and our debt has increased 
     
     with the years. If we have made few mistakes internationally, it 
     
     is because her wise counsel and unrivalled experience has always 
     
     been at our disposal and we have fully availed ourselves of her 
     
     services and advice. We can but try to fulfill our destiny as she 
     
     would have wished, in friendship to all, and in the supreme faith 
     
     of ultimate good.” 
     
    

    
     Why should ACWW give a scholarship? To meet the crying 
     
     need amongst mature women and homemakers for opportunities 
     
     for training and for wider International experience, a need especi- 
     
     ally urgent in the rapidly developing countries. This need has be— 
     
     come increasingly evident in the experience of ACWW member so- 
     
     cieties. These leaders will return to their own women to help them 
     
     use the resources they have to the best advantage. 
     
    

    
     Such students will have one advantage at least, for in all 
     
     the countries that give the training they will find our Societies, and 
     
     will be put in touch with our members, so that they may feel they 
     
     are not working alone in a strange land, but are part of our great 
     
     family of country women. They will, we hope, make friends where- 
     
     ever they may go for their training, friends with whom they can 
     
     keep in touch when they return to their own lands to put their 
     
     training.r to practical use. 
     
    

    
     This Scholarship is the most important and exciting project 
     
     ACWW has ever undertaken. Malnutrition, whether it be due to 
     
     poverty or ignorance, is a desperately destructive thing. Nobody 
     
     can work well, think well, or be a balanced human being when they 
     
     are hungry. We all know that the best helper for country people 
     
     is one of their own country women. If we can help train these 
     
     women for their great task we may be setting a pattern that will 
     
     alter the lives of millions for the better. 
     
    

    
     Since it will help to stamp out hunger the Lady Aberdeen 
     
     scholarship fund fits most happily into the “Free from Hunger” 
     
     campaign which our President, Mrs. van Beekhoff, has been helping 
     
     to plan in Rome. In this campaign FAO, (Food and Agriculture 
     
     Organization) is working as a partner — with non-governmental 
     
     organizations including ACWW, and ACWW can make its contri- 
     
     butions through the Lady Aberdeen Scholarship Fund. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The project will be a contribution, too, to another great 
     
     objective of ACWW — building a friendship and understanding 
     
     between people in different parts of the world. Societies and mem- 
     
    
   
   
    
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