"Investment in Future Manhood and Womanhood" - 1924-1925
Location
United States
Year
1924
Context
Cover of the Direct Sponsorship Plan brochure issued by NER's National Headquarters at 151 Fifth Avenue, New York. The cover sets two oval portrait photographs side by side - at left, a smiling boy identified as Ioannou Polikhronios of the Syra (Syros) orphanage in Greece; at right, a girl identified as Azniv of the Birds' Nest orphanage in Sidon (Saida), Lebanon - above three lines of stacked headline type and the appeal label "Direct Sponsorship Plan." An archival annotation in the upper margin reads "File 1924–25, Folder #89," placing the brochure in NER's appeal-literature run for those years.
The Direct Sponsorship Plan was NER's individuated-giving program, in which an American donor underwrote the support of a single named orphan in a specific facility for a fixed monthly sum. The two children pictured serve as paired exemplars from NER's two main institutional clusters in this period - the Syra orphanage on the Greek island of Syros (a major receiving site for child refugees from the 1922 Smyrna catastrophe) and the Birds' Nest at Sidon, founded by Danish missionary Maria Jacobsen and operated as an Armenian genocide-survivor orphanage in the French Mandate of Lebanon.
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