Student committees on campuses throughout the world raise funds, collect clothing and books, demonstrating their solidarity with students in desperate need.
Educational assistance is offered to prisoners of war.
ISS continues to provide material assistance to students in the face of natural or man-made calamities, most notably in aiding Jewish and other refugees from oppression in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia but also in Asia and Africa . The commitment to international understanding continues as ISS gains a solid reputation for its study tours, seminars, work camps and conferences. In 1939 at the University of Toronto, a group of students and professors forms the first Canadian committee of International Student Service. ISS re-establishes European Student Relief which with the geographical extension of the War, became World Student Relief . Scholarships are provided to European students who have been displaced by war.