64. Other social groups have been involved with C.D.O.s and have given much active and generous help, for example the Rotary Clubs, with their affiliated Rotaract and Interact Clubs, and the Lions Clubs. The sports clubs in the King's Park area, particularly the India Club, have become more outward looking and joined in local activities.
65. Local public works are not often appropriate in the urban areas but several have been undertaken with help from the Army, Rotary Clubs and the P.W.D. The Army has also made a football ground available regularly and army units have been hosts to kaifong from the districts in which they are stationed.
66. Entertainments and sports activities have been popular in all Districts. The short-term nature of these undertakings makes them very appropriate for making initial contacts, and the resulting publicity has helped to build up the image of C.D.O.s as being interested in recreation as well as more mundane affairs. There has been some criticism that C.D.O.s should not waste their time on this sort of thing but there is nothing like a successful short-term operation of this sort to generate mutual sympathy, which has a longer term value, between C.D.O.s and the organizers.
67. Community projects constitute one of the major fields of activity by C.D.O.s and I have no doubt the effectiveness of their participation can be enhanced with experience. The community projects are essentially organized by ordinary people-not our own staff-so that we can derive considerable value from them without having to devote much of our slender resources to the administrative arrangements of the projects themselves. No doubt new possibilities will be encountered but we have, in Districts where there have been C.D.O.s for any length of time, made
a start.
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