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The first unit of American Friends Service Committee trainees, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 1917.
Credit: Courtesy the American Friends Service Committee
During World War I, young AFSC volunteers, both men and women, worked with British Quakers in France providing relief and medical care to refugees, and repairing and rebuilding homes. After the war, the AFSC extended its work into Russia, Serbia, Poland, Germany, and Austria.


