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In Kev, special detachments were formed and sent to places that could open several points, with an average capacity of approximately a thousand people each.
At the end of August, 20 detachments had already been formed, by the beginning of October 43. Afterwards, when the flow of refugees stopped, the number of detachments began to decrease, and the nature of their work also changed: feeding points moved to the front, the GDB began to feed the dead refugees and the population devastated by the war.
In total, at the end of the year, the Department had 25 feeding units that fed about one hundred and twenty thousand people. In the first time of the Department’s existence, when there were especially many refugees, the Department decided to take part in their resettlement.
With this goal, intelligent agents-guides were invited, who, accompanying the train with the Ozhentsy, conducted all negotiations with the railway authorities, purchased the necessary food or notified nutritional points in advance about the time of arrival late, separated the sick and placed them in hospitals.
In total, the agents-guides brought from the resettlement site over seventy parties of women, totaling about one hundred and twenty thousand people.
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In the parties of refugees there were many children - orphans or those left behind by their families. It was necessary to set up nurseries - shelters where orphans and children who had lost their parents could be placed.
In charge of feeding stations and employees sent from places where refugees gathered, they found homeless children and sent them to nurseries and orphanages. In total, Otdvl opened 35! The nurseries and shelters, many of which were in the provinces, resettled the refugees, and were subsequently transferred to local organizations, and only the nurseries working near the front were left in the Committee's buildings. At the end of the year there were fourteen such nurseries.
At the beginning of September, it was decided to begin labor assistance for 6 women, and for this purpose the Bureau was created. Labor. In total, by the end of the year the bureau had provided work to approximately three thousand women.
Among the refugees there were many people who had lost during the evacuation: their property, their residence permits and various documents, the wives of reserve soldiers and warriors who had previously received rations and now did not know where to turn in order to restore their rights. All these people needed legal assistance, and the Department decided to invite lawyers who were supposed to give the Ozhents free advice and guide them on their behalf.
The legal department appeared in mid-November, and by the end of the year it had provided several hundred pieces of advice and certificates.
After the work of the Otdfl began to be carried out closer to the front, it was necessary to help not so much the refugees as the population devastated by the war. This circumstance should have caused some changes in the nature of the work: it was necessary to provide labor assistance, transport necessary products to the local market, sell them to the population at a procurement price, and take care of the exchange of fields. To manage this work, a special economic department has been established under the Department, in which all economic activities of this kind are concentrated.
Finally, it should be mentioned that with the approach of winter, the Department began distributing warm clothes and clothing to the local population. In total, about 170,000 warm clothes, more than 300,000 linens and 3,800 pairs of shoes were distributed. Thus, in a short time, the Women's Assistance Department became one of the most significant departments of the Committee.
Soon after the Refugee Assistance Department came into being, the Committee founded another Department with the same goal. Refugees leaving their villages took their horses and cows with them. But the Ozhentsy, for the most part, could not buy feed for their livestock, and it died in large quantities or was sold for nothing to buyers. The committee decided to begin purchasing livestock, with the intention of making purchases at a fair valuation and subsequently, when the refugees returned to their places, to transfer the livestock to them on preferential terms. The department began work in early October and bought more than 1,800 head of horses and cattle.
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New machines were purchased for mechanical workshops, and then their production began to increase every month.