Rehabilitation Fund money and eight days later the Chairman of the World Rehabilitation Fund, Dr Howard RUSK, laid the foundation stone of a rehabilitation day centre which is to be built in Kwun Tong with money provided from the Fund. This day centre will be the first in Hong Kong to provide comprehensive facilities for assessment of capacity, vocational rehabilitation for all major fields of disability and placement services. It will have accommodation for three hundred and sixty people and provide eighty with sheltered work of various kinds, one hundred and forty with vocational training and another one hundred and forty young persons suffering from some handicap and not ready for voca- tional training with programmes of pre-vocational training. The centre, planning of which during the year was carried out by the department in collaboration with the Fund, will be operated by the Social Welfare Department. Much will depend upon employers being prepared to accept these handicapped people who will have had the benefit of up-to-date training on modern machinery and equipment. More employers are, in fact, beginning to realize that disabled people are employable in factories and offices and during the year the department successfully placed a total of one hundred and forty-nine disabled persons in employment ranging from labourers to skilled workers.
77. The department opened its fifth club for fifth deaf children in January 1967 and the department's Combined Hostel and Training Centre for the mentally retarded is in the planning stage and should be completed in 1968.
BLIND WELFARE
78. The Hong Kong Society for the Blind operates a factory providing employment for persons on such work as the making of brooms, brushes, wooden crates and boxes, chalk and buttons. Further success was achieved during the year in implementing the Society's policy of making the factory commercially more competitive. The Society has planned the addition of a further two storeys to its Advanced Training Centre in order to introduce courses in piano tuning and massage, and the Social Welfare Advisory Committee has recommended the grant of $140,000 from the Lotteries Fund towards the cost of this project. A blind student has already been sent abroad for training as a piano tuning instructor.
79. The second Braille Library, which like the first was donated by the Kowloon Junior Chamber of Commerce, was officially opened on 26th November 1966, and serves blind residents of Kowloon and
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