A helping hand.

This is a fundraising film (and possibly a nursing recruitment film) by the British Red Cross Society. It centres around the 'true story' of a young Malayan woman, Ah Moi (played by Miss Mary Chai) who makes contact with a British Red Cross Nurse, Miss Jean Wright (played by herself), when her brother is very ill. Jean Wright is our narrator. The film has a highly melodramatic (and rather intrusive) music sound track. The young boy has a high fever and is being nursed by his mother. A glimpse of traditional life is shown. Later, in the health clinic, we see public health posters of the day on the walls, re-inforcing messages about TB etc. The young woman is seen assisting the nurse in her clinic. A new training scheme is described and Ah Moi is then trained to be a full-time nurse. Some of the work of the traveling Red Cross clinics are shown as it journeys around the rural regions of Malaya. Ah Moi travels back to her village, fully trained, to a rapturous welcome.