HOIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1974.
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HONG KONG YOUTHS BECOMING MORE COMMUNITY CONSCIOUS
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HONG KONG'S YOUNG PEOPLE ARE DECOMING MORE AWARE OF WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR THEIR FELLOW MEN, AS DEMONSTRATED BY THEIR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN VARIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES, THE SECRETARY FOR SOCIAL SERVICES, MR. LI FOOK-KOW, SAID TODAY.
YOUTH VOLUNTEERS, HE SAID, HAD ALREADY SHOUD INITIATIVE
IN HELPING TO OPERATE RECREATIONAL PROGRAMMES, HELPING THE ELDERLY AND ASSISTING IN EMERGENCY WORK, AND THEIR SERVICES VERE INVALUADLE TO COMPLEMENT THE EFFORTS OF PROFESSIONALS AND DRING A REFRESHING KUMAN TOUCH AND NEW ATTITUDES TOWARDS HAKING HONG KONG A DETTER INTEGRATED COMMUNITY.
MR. LI WAS SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE SOUTH-EAST ASIAN REGIONAL SEMINAR ON VOLUNTEER SERVICE IN URDAN AREAS, DEING HELD IN THE MANDARI HOTEL,
HE SAID IT WAS MOST \\\APPROPRIATE THAT THE SEMINAR WAS BEING HELD IN HONG KONG AS IT COULD ADVISE HOW DEST THE ENERGY AND IDEALISM OF OUR YOUTH COULD DE HARNESSED NOT ONLY TO IMPROVE THE LIFE OF THEIR COMMUNITY BUT ALSO TO IMPROVE THEIR CWN ATTITUDES AND SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY TO SOCIETY.
+IN RETURN OUR EXPERIENCE. IN THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED CITY IN THE WORLD WILL NO DOUBT DE OF VALUE TO OVERSEAS DELEGATES.+
HE HOPED THAT ONE OF THE MAN TASKS OF THE SEMINAR- WOULD BE TO DISCOVER AND TO DEFINE MORE CLEARLY THE VARIOUS WAYS IN WHICH VOLUNTEERS COULD.DE INTEGRATED IN THE FIELD OF SOCIAL SERVICE.
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ANOTHER USEFUL RESULT OF THE SEINNAR, HE ADDED, MIGHT BE GUIDANCE ON HOW HONG KONG COULD EXTEND ITS SQOOL CIVICS SYLLABUS DY INTEGRATING COMMUNITY SERVICE INTO XT.
+OUR YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD THEN NOT ONLY LEARN THE THEORY OF BEING GOOD CITIZENS BUT WOULD ALSO INCREASE THEIR OWN AWARENESS AND USEFULNESS BY PRACTICAL SERVICE NOT ONLY IN THEIR HOLIDAYS BUT ALSO AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE SCHOOL \CURRICULUM.÷
NOTE TO EDITORS:
COPIES OF THE FULL TEXT OF MR. LI'S SPEECH. WILL BE BOXED FOR COLLECTION LATER TODAY.
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