Fund Drive Started By Ethiopian Students

The Ethiopian Students Committee has begun a drive that will eventually encompass almost every American university to raise money for the National Literacy Campaign presently being conducted in Ethiopia. The African country has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world.

Directed by Ephraim Isaac, a Harvard graduate student, the drive was begun here after the Ethiopian Students Association in North America had received a letter from the Ethiopian government requesting assistance. The letter noted that considerable assistance had been received from Europe and Russia, but that there had been relatively little aid from North America.

At Harvard, Isaac hopes to use Phillips Brooks House as his headquarters and is attempting to obtain assistance in conducting the drive from Harvard and summer school students.