Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

that carried on through these four regularly organized channels. Four of the smaller camps. outside of the city were assigned us. Regular visits were made to each twice a week. Soap, fuel, clothing and medicines were among the supplies distributed by the worker in charge. By money loans other individuals were equipped to earn their living as boot blacks, barbers, seamstresses or carpenters. A personal service division helped individuals to find relatives and often to proceed on to a new home and a new start in life. The report at the close of this chapter will give some idea of the relative amounts expended in such miscellaneous relief and also of amounts turned over directly to other organizations, but the report cannot indicate the good done through the Christian service to individuals in such extreme need of succor. Surely the Church and her workers were effectively carrying out the “Jesus Way of Life” in this work. Before endeavoring to summarize the work of the Unit it is due those who so faithfully served in it to sketch briefly the history of each of the four main depart- ments. THE MENNONITE HOME The circumstances under which Mennonites happened to be in this Refugee army, how our Unit found out about 102 FEEDING THE HUNGRY them, and our decision that for this group we were par- ticularly responsible has been mentioned elsewhere. At first the members of this group were all men—most of them ex-soldiers in Wrangel’s army. The Unit was in- structed by the Committee in America to help these men in every necessary way, but to extend such help on a loan basis to be repaid by the men as soon as they again became self supporting. The first step consisted in gath- ering these men from the various Refugee ships and camps. The first Mennonite Home was located in the city itself. But by Feb., 1921, these quarters were outgrown and the Home was moved to a group of buildings in Yeni Kuey, a town about 6 miles north of Constantinople. The buildings with about 10 acres of land were situated on a bluff overlooking the Bosphorus. Here quarters were ample, so that we felt warranted to admit German Lutherans as well as a few Catholics on the same loan basis as the Mennonites. The Yeni Kuey Home was also an ideal place for caring for the Mennonite families which came later. The population of the institution varied from 100 to 200, of whom about two-thirds were Men- nonites. In all between 250 and 300 Mennonites spent some time there. The discipline of the Home was in charge of Frank Stoltzfus and later of J. E. Brunk. Most of the money and supplies needed were charged to the individuals living there. Every effort was made to conduct the Home economically and to find employment for the men. Since none of them wanted to stay in Turkey it was difficult to find work for all. Most of the Mennonites wanted to go on to the U. S. Some preferred Germany or Holland, and a few Pales- tine. ‘The nec