with financial assistance from the Jockey Club and Lotteries Fund and opened in March 1969 can provide residential care and training for 110 children, while the Salvation Army Home at Cheung Chau makes provision for yet another 20.
84. The Family Services Division also helps to rehabilitate ex- mental patients by providing after-care and vocational training in its centres; these services are further supported by the general casework service of the Division which extends assistance to their families. Two voluntary welfare organizations also provide hostel accommodation for ex-mental patients: the New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Associa- tion runs a half-way house at Hung Hom and a farm in Yuen Long; the Mental Health Association has a half-way house at Wong Tai Sin.
85. The work of rehabilitating blind people, 5,155 of whom have been voluntarily registered with the Department, involves the provision of vocational training, sheltered employment and club activities in three centres administered by the Family Services Division and situated at the Tsan Yuk Social Centre, the Princess Alexandra Community Centre in Tsuen Wan, and at the Tung Tau Resettlement Estate. These centres work towards the ultimate aim of finding employment for their trainees and during the year 8 persons were found jobs, this number including 2 employed in the Public Service. The Hong Kong Society for the Blind is engaged in a similar field of activity and it operates various centres and a factory, all of which provide training and sheltered work for a total of 286 blind persons. Two other voluntary welfare organizations, the Ebenezer School and Home for the Blind and the Canossa School for Blind Girls, between them provide sufficient school places for all the known blind children in the Colony who require an education.
86. The rehabilitation of the deaf is similar to the work of rehabili- tating the blind in that the three basic processes of adjustment, training and restoration are also involved. However, because of a shortage of places in schools for the deaf, the Family Services Division continued to operate five clubs which provide some 250 children with suitable courses of instruction and extra-curricular activities. During the year, a sixth club was planned while a study was made with a view to standardizing the medium of sign instruction in these clubs. Twenty of these children left the clubs for vocational training in the Aberdeen and World Rehabilitation Fund Day Centres, which now cater for 45 deaf trainees. It is a remarkable fact that hardly any deaf person
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