projects is estimated at around $4,000,000. (See Appendices V - VII).
40. During the year facilities for the training of Social Science students from the University of Hong Kong, Health Visitors, Youth Leaders, etc. were offered by the Child Welfare Section, whilst lectures on child care were given to the staffs of a number of voluntary agencies, and to recruits at the Police Training School. All members of the section participated in the training of nursemaids programme at the Po Leung Kuk.
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41. Miss Dorothy Lee, Assistant Social Welfare Officer (Youth Welfare), returned to the Colony in August after an eight-month attachment to the United Nations Organization as adviser on Child Welfare matters to the Government of Indonesia.
42. During the summer Fr. P. J. Howatson, S.J., Chairman of the Standing Conference of Youth Organizations, the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association and the Silvermine Bay Holiday Camp, spent a busy three months in Europe and was the Standing Conference of Youth Organizations' representative at the Conference of the Commonwealth Youth Council held in Great Britian in July. Fr. Howatson also attended the annual conference of the National Association of Boys' Clubs in England and the International Conference of Social Work at Munich.
43. 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. These children, of whom there are, at a rough guess, some 50,000 to 60,000, belong to the poorest section of the Colony's population. Most such children are forced, through the poverty of their families, to fend for them- selves by hawking or as shoe shine boys. Over 6,000 of these children are members of boys' and girls' clubs. There are 129 clubs which are either directly sponsored by, or affiliated to, the Boys, and Girls' Clubs Association. The Youth Welfare Section of the Social Welfare Office runs 23 clubs which are affiliated to the Association and are subject to its rules, although they are entirely maintained and staffed by Government.
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