The Rural Revival Conference of the Union for the Relief of Juveniles opened this year on the 30th of last April at the Riviera Hotel, under the patronage of His Excellency the Minister of Social Affairs, and its sessions continued through the first week of May. Its aim was to establish a stronger and more fruitful cooperation between the International Union for Child Welfare and the Lebanese Union for Child Welfare, which comprises all our institutions working in the field of child welfare and the protection of juveniles.
The conference was attended by world figures from the Union for Child Welfare, who worked together with the local body headed by Dr. Jamal Harfush and Dr. André Karam, the officer responsible for the union's work. The spirit of cooperation that showed itself among the conferees had its effective part in improving conditions in the countryside and in rescuing juveniles from the woes and deprivation into which they had sunk.
The Rural Revival Conference was interspersed with parties of acquaintance and exploratory excursions to the historic sites of Lebanon, and all — the experts above all — joined in defining the needs of the rising generation in the countryside and in studying effective means of raising the standard of living there. Valuable recommendations on the subject were forwarded to all the member associations throughout the world.
The exhibition of industries and handicrafts opened in Karachi on the fifth of last May, in the presence of a large gathering of official and civil personalities. In the picture, Begum Nahid Iskander Mirza, wife of the President of the Republic of Pakistan, appears delivering an address at the opening ceremony, after which she went forward to inspect the exhibits.
The engaged couple receive the priest's blessing before he places on them the engagement rings
On the twenty-second of May, 1958, there took place in Baghdad the engagement of Miss Hiyam, daughter of Dr. Anis Adel, to the young man Ghassoub Habib Wehbe, director of the Arab Insurance Company in Baghdad. It was held in the garden of the fiancée's home, and the guests numbered no fewer than two hundred of the families and friends of the engaged couple. When the ceremonies of the engagement were completed, glasses of champagne were passed round and the guests drank the health of the couple; then they were invited to a sumptuous banquet holding the
most delicious and appetizing of dishes. Dr. Anis Adel, Mrs. Adel, and the engaged pair attended in person to every one of the guests, and the party lasted until midnight.
The Woman's Voice congratulates the two young fiancés and wishes them fullness of joy and lasting happiness.
On the twenty-fifth of last May one of the friends of 'The Woman's Voice,' Mrs. Najiba Tawfiq Sari Eddine, left us for Portuguese Guinea, to visit her husband and children and to look into the affairs of her family and of the Lebanese colony there. We wish the gracious lady a successful and easy journey, from which she will return to Lebanon rich in experience and light of heart.