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December 1946: Winter Relief

As the cheery buntings are out here for 75th Anniversary VE Day here is post war Europe.  I could not find anything out about winter relief but the stamps show a destitute mother and child and a child begging for food. I seem to have only the grim stamps of this set for others show happy children receiving parcels.  They would need aid for the winter of 1946/7 was brutally cold with food shortages. From these grey times things got better, for all things pass

1965: International Children's Day

and here we are planting trees and going to the beach because

1996: Child Welfare Week (Design - Takashi Yanase)

the sun is out.

2014: Save the Children (Design - Jakob Monefeldt)

Charity is still required and this stamp supports Save the Children (Red Barnet).  The crisscrossing words in different colours tell a child's story for Jakob Monefeldt always likes to tell a story through his stamps.

Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - Mothers/Children - See It On A Postcard