together in an atmosphere of friendship and warmth that lifts them out of the life of the streets: they are fed, they play games, and they are taught the rudiments of cleanliness, reading, writing, and some simple handicrafts, such as the making of baskets.

And in summer the Eagles run a camp for children in the countryside, so that the poorest children of the city may breathe the open air and romp free in the shade of the pines.

Among the newest undertakings of the Eagles Foundation's club is the setting aside of a place where the handwork produced by the blind is displayed and sold. This work was begun by the "Committee for Aid to the Blind," which counts an Eagle among its members. This committee is anxious to secure for the blind the bare sustenance of life, that they may not beg for it in the alleys.

The exhibition is open all day long, and the members of the committee take turns selling the handwork displayed in it.

And since they believe that the individual is the cornerstone of every social organization, it became natural that every project should begin within the Foundation itself, and afterward spread on a wider scale until it embraces society: the public lectures, the art exhibitions, the musical performances, and the running discussions all serve as a sound intellectual stimulus, from which members and non-members profit alike. And the members are enabled, at the same time, to fulfill their desire to serve society.

And although the Foundation has gathered its energies for grappling with local questions, it has remained in close touch with the international

The wife of President Chamoun examines the handwork displayed in the section set aside for the products of the blind at the Eagles Foundation. At the opening of this section all the exhibits were sold for the sum of 500 Lebanese lira, which went to the Committee for Aid to the Blind

organizations, above all the UNESCO Coordination Committee for Work Camps, and the Service Civil International in Paris and Geneva. The Geneva organization approved a number of the Eagles to bring these camps into the Arab countries. And soon the Swiss, the Germans, the Americans, the Danes, the Indians, and the Arabs were working side by side to improve social conditions in Jbaa, Sidon, Jezzine, and Lebaa. Last summer, in the wake of the earthquake that befell the town of Lebaa, the international work camp, under the supervision and direction of the Eagles, undertook to create a social center and to build a number of houses, which have become models for the new building circles emerging from the earthquake's destruction.

There is no project aiming at the improvement of the individual's mate-rial, economic, and spiritual condition that the Eagles have not

Table tennis (ping-pong) and instruction are among the items of the Foundation's program. The helper here, Nahla Marwa Shuman, lives on her farm in the Bekaa; she has begun carrying out a joint project in a village neighboring hers