agencies in the provision of services. At Wong Tai Sin, Tsuen Wan and Tai Hang Tung Centres, the Maryknoll Sisters, the Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association and the Lutheran World Service respec- tively provide a day nursery for two hundred children between the ages of two and six who need care while their parents are at work. The British Commonwealth Save the Children Fund provides a Play Centre and Nursery for six hundred children at Kwun Tong; the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association organizes a variety of group activ- ities for young people in the Wong Tai Sin and Tsuen Wan Centres, two hundred or more of whom come together every evening for dancing or sports or to develop other interests and skills. Practical training classes are run in the repairing of electrical appliances, domestic equip- ment and motor cars by the Hong Kong Council of Practical Training Centres at the Wong Tai Sin Centre; these courses lead to ready employment, and at any one time three hundred boys aged fifteen or over are being trained. At Tsuen Wan, the Lutheran World Service provides similar facilities in carpentry, mechanics, tailoring and typing for one hundred young people of sixteen years or over. The Hong Kong Family Welfare Society provides casework services at three community centres and at the Tsan Yuk Social Centre. The department runs a library at each of these centres with an average stock of twenty-five thousand volumes of books, mostly in Chinese, and a variety of magazines and newspapers. This amenity is highly valued by children and adults alike, attracting up to a thousand users a day in each. It serves members and non-members of the centres and has also forged a useful link between the people in the community and the centre with its facilities and the many related cultural activities. Enquiry counters are also provided in three centres to assist people in the use of centre facilities, in the selection of leisure time activities and in obtaining general information.
35. The core of the work of the centres lies in the development of groups, which form the character and give vitality to the centres, towards the goal of development of a community with richer life and with better social associations among people, apart from the development of people themselves as individual members of a group. Encouragement has been given to a great variety of men's and women's clubs, youths' and children's clubs in such forms as friendship groups, Chinese boxing, Chinese music, jodo, fencing, dancing, drama, photography, painting, calligraphy, sports, and many other such interest groups. Responsibilities of the members towards the group and the community as well as volun-
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