Meeting the Social Challenge
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IN HONG KONG, where the population is swollen annually not only by natural increase (86,070 in 1958) but by a steady influx of indigent newcomers from China, where housing is scarce and overcrowding a commonplace, welfare and health problems are of unusual magnitude. In the fight against the social evils of poverty, ignorance, ill-health and squalor, the official agencies of Government are joined by well over 100 voluntary welfare organizations and many small groups of welfare workers sponsored by different missionary bodies. Concentration of effort is largely on the young. The photograph shows a children's band in the grounds of the Ebenezer Home and School for the Blind.