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title: Helping people to help themselves
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/unrra-helping-people-to-help-themselves-1945/
description: 'UNRRA information sheet in yellow, white and black: a large photomontage of refugees and ruined buildings, six round photographs labelled ''Food'
section: Collection
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# Helping people to help themselves

UNRRA information sheet in yellow, white and black: a large photomontage of refugees and ruined buildings, six round photographs labelled 'Food for the starving', 'Seeds for farming', 'Tools for essential work', 'Repatriation of the displaced', 'Medical aid' and 'Clothing for the destitute', a block of text, and a closing band 'Foundation for peace - United Nations'. Photographs of need and relief are paired with broad peace slogans (glittering generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
UNRRA
UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION
HELPING PEOPLE TO HELP THEMSELVES
UNRRA IS AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION consisting of 48 governments organized to provide relief and rehabilitation to the people of liberated territories in Europe and the Far East.
UNRRA IS A SHORT-TERM SERVICE AGENCY, acting on behalf of the United Nations, and designed to meet immediate relief needs and also to rehabilitate war-shattered economies so that they can, once more, take part in the world economy.
UNRRA PROVIDES Relief supplies: Food, clothing, fuel, medicines, household supplies, etc.
Relief services: Health and welfare services, epidemic control, repatriation of displaced persons, etc.
Rehabilitation Supplies and Services: Seeds, fertilizer, raw materials, machinery, transportation and other public utilities, technical service, etc.
UNRRA IS DIRECTED to carry out its relief and rehabilitation program among those United Nations needing assistance, without any discrimination on account of race, creed, color or political belief.
Food for the starving
Seeds for farming
Tools for essential work
Repatriation of the displaced
Medical aid
Clothing for the destitute
[imprint: ISSUED BY UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION, WASHINGTON, D. C.]
FOUNDATION FOR PEACE - UNITED NATIONS
[imprint: Litho'd in U. S. A.]
```

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