build in Tai Po, New Territories, a permanent Wai Kwong Children's Home on its original site. The total cost of both projects is estimated to be in the neighbourhood of $4,000,000.
CHAPTER VI
YOUTH WELFARE
28. The quality of child and youth welfare work in Hong Kong received international recognition during the year, when Miss Dorothy Lee was seconded to the United Nations Organiza- tion to act as adviser on child welfare matters to the Government of Indonesia.
29. The Youth Welfare Section has always worked in the closest co-operation with the various voluntary organizations, particularly those which work with non-school children between the ages of 8 and 18 years. Most such children are forced, through the poverty of their families, to shoulder household duties, or to supplement family earnings by casual work such as shoe-shining, hawking etc. Nearly 5,000 of these children are members of boys' and girls' clubs. There are 102 clubs which are either directly sponsored by, or affiliated to, the Boys' & Girls' Clubs Association. The twenty-one clubs run by the Youth Section of the Social Welfare Office are affiliated to the Boys' & Girls' Clubs Association and are subject to its rules, although they are entirely maintained and staffed by Govern- ment.
30. In co-operation with the Boys' & Girls' Clubs Associa- tion a very successful exhibition was organized, having as its theme "Clubs in Action". This three-day Exhibition was held at the War Memorial Welfare Centre, Wanchai, and was visited by over 10,000 people. An Exhibition of paintings, the work of members of various clubs, under the guidance of Mrs. M. Pearson, was held under the auspices of the British Council. This Exhibition was very favourably received by the public.
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