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and university student unions have always produced a lively response. In order to cope with this youthful energy several C.D.0.s have started to organise District Youth Councils which are then put to work. Young volunteers have also been put directly to work on surveys, in re-building a nullah wall, 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 organised by the older students themselves.
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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.
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Kaifongs have accepted C.D.O.s as they have accepted S.C.A. staff in the past and the
increase in coverage has meant that those associations which are active see more of our staff than they did. The break up of the Kaifong
Research Council, due very largely to personal
animosities but with the split in liaison arrangements making some contribution, has not
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