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scheme can help to find channels through which this energy can be directed to the good of Hong Kong. I am not concerned so much with finding a label like civic pride to be a substitute for patriotism as to find ways in which people, particularly young people, can find an outlet for energy directed at improving
the lot of those who live here.
56.
It will be clear that our second aim
is similar to the aims of the Community Development Division of the Social Welfare Department. We did not spot this at first as we thought that we were simply extending the sort of work S.C.A. has been doing with kaifong etc. There was already some overlapping here and I am sure the arrangement we have now cone to by which the professional
abilities of the S.W.D. officers can be called
upon by C.D.0.s 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.
57.
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 seen most significant at this stage, together with a few others which show the breadth of approach we are trying.
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Young people have been prominent.
Students have called on us to offer their services, and approaches to schools, post-secondary colleges
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