will work well. Indeed I think the co-operation between professional social workers and the amateur C.D.O.s, which should follow from D.S.W.'s appointment of District Community Officers, should enhance the effectiveness of both. Jealousy or friction here would be disastrous and the development of the new arrangements will be carefully watched.
60. An account of the work that has been done in this field, even when only four of the offices have been going for six months and the rest much less, is not easy to incorporate in this report. I mention only the activities which seem most significant at this stage, together with a few others which show the breadth of approach we are trying.
61. Young people have been prominent. Students have called on us to offer their services, and approaches to schools, post-secondary colleges and university student unions have always produced a lively response. In order to cope with this youthful energy several C.D.O.s have started to organize District Youth Councils which are then put to work. Young volunteers have also been put directly to work on surveys, on simple construction jobs, numbering squatter huts, meeting blind people daily at a ferry concourse to guide them, visiting spastics and others in hospital to read to them, reading to the blind and so forth; in one District a youth newspaper is about to appear, and the Hong Kong Federation of Students was put in touch with business men prepared to pay for a week's trip to Japan for a group. In the summer a good many youth activities with which C.D.O.s were concerned were organized by the older students themselves.
62. Among older people a good proportion of the effort is directed towards kaifong, clansmen, district, trade and multi-storey building associations. Federations of multi-storey building associations are developing in several areas. Three kaifong associations have opened what amount to community centres and the associations continue with much solid work such as they have been doing for years.
63. Kaifongs have accepted C.D.O.s as they have accepted S.C.A. staff in the past and our increased strength on the ground has meant that those associations which are active see more of our staff than they did. The year under report saw a split in the Kaifong Research Council, which is a sort of loose federation of the district Kaifong associations, and the formation of a rival body; but fortunately this had little or no effect on the local operations of the individual associations which rep- resent by far the most important aspect of the Kaifong movement.
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