care and attention. Efforts are made to provide them with suitable training so that they can exercise reasonable care of themselves and make the fullest possible use of their residual capacity to learn and apply a skill. This form of training is provided in the Kai Nang Training Centre, the children's centre of the Aberdeen Rehabilitation Centre and the Tsan Yuk and Tung Tau Children's Centres. All of these are operated by the Department. In addition to these facilities residential care and training facilities are provided by the Po Leung Kuk, the Salvation Army Home at Cheung Chau, the Save the Children Fund's two centres at Wang Tau Hom and Chai Wan Resettlement Estate, and the recently opened Morning Light Centre at Wah Fu Estate operated by the Hong Kong Association for Mentally Hand- icapped Children and Young Persons.
29. Ex-mental patients are also assisted. After-care and vocational training are provided in various centres, together with casework services for their families. Both the Mental Health Association of Hong Kong and the New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association with financial assistance from Government provide hostel accommodation for ex-mental patients. The latter also runs a farm and a sheltered workshop.
30. The number of blind persons voluntarily registered with the Department stands at 5,552. The Department provides club activities, sheltered work and vocational training in three centres. The Hong Kong Society for the Blind also provides training and sheltered work in various centres, together with hostel accommodation. Two other voluntary agencies, namely the Ebenezer School and Home for the Blind and the Canossa School for the Visually Disabled, have concen- trated mainly on providing special education for blind children who cannot enter normal schools. The position now reached is that any young blind person can be provided with an education, and can sub- sequently be trained for employment either in a factory or at a more advanced level or alternatively provided with a place for sheltered work.
31. Existing facilities for rehabilitation of the deaf are still far from adequate. Because of a shortage of places in schools for the deaf the Department operates six clubs which provide 285 children with suitable courses of instruction and extra-curricular activities. A new club for 36 deaf children was opened in Yuen Long during the year.
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