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Today, 84
years later, the World University service has
become an international non-governmental
organisation, accredited by UNESCO, with members
(the national committees) in five continents.
Its international co-ordination office has moved
– via Amsterdam – in the beginning of this
century to Ottawa in Canada, and it is likely
that the office of the WUS- International will
be transferred to some other country in the near
future. Its major task is to set the standards
of work for its members and to initiate and
co-ordinate international educational
co-operation for emergency assistance in
troubled countries or regions. It encourages
non-emergency national initiatives in the
countries of its members but it cannot
financially sponsor them. Thus, basically, every
member may freely formulate its national
objectives, tasks and programs within the frame
of the World University Service international
policy, but then it must also secure itself the
financial means fort that. In the majority of
the countries the national committees receive
some international or governmental assistance
for their programs, but this is not the case in
Romania.
Today, the
World University Service- International relies
on a network of full and corresponding members
in the following countries:
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in Europe: Austria,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Germany, in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and in Romania
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in the Americas:
Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras,
Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rica
and in Uruguay
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in Africa:
Eritrea, Lesotho, Nigeria, Ruanda, Swaziland and
in Zambia
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in Asia: India,
Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, in the
Philippines, South Korea and in Vietnam.
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