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improvement projects for 43 hectares of park land and roadside amenity areas, including footbridges.
Beautification of Footbridges
To improve the greenery in the urban areas and the environment around footbridges, the LCSD has embarked on a programme for placing flower pots on the sides of footbridges.
Summer Youth Programme
The Summer Youth Programme (SYP) is a large-scale community building programme which provides a wide range of activities for children and young people aged between six and 25 to enjoy during the summer holidays. The slogan for 2007 was 'Unite in Harmony, Rejoice in Reunion' to reflect the spirit of the territory-wide celebrations held to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Establishment of Hong Kong as a Special Administrative Region of China. The wide range of cultural and arts, sports and all-round development activities and exhibitions was designed to bring young people of different nationalities and cultures together to participate in them and to establish bonding which can contribute to making Hong Kong a harmonious society.
In 2007, around 12 000 SYP activities were organised in which more than 1.5 million young people took part. The total cost of these activities and events was over $40 million of which $15 million was donated by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and the remainder covered by subvention from the Government and District Councils, private donations and participants' fees.
Websites
Home Affairs Bureau: www.hab.gov.hk
Leisure and Cultural Services Department: www.lcsd.gov.hk
Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department: www.afcd.gov.hk
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