were conducted. The Tsuen Wan Youth Work Seminar with over fifty local leaders participating stimulated new thought about Tsuen Wan's youth work. The Kwun Tong Community Development Study Group was actively involved in its studies on the needs of the area. The Wong Tai Sin Cultural and Recreational Committee with local headmasters and school supervisors as its members actively promoted cultural and recreational activities in the area such as calligraphy and painting competitions, children and youth programmes.
59. Towards the end of the year, community workers were also posted in the six existing Estate Welfare Buildings in resettlement estates to develop community work along the lines of community
centres.
Children and Youth activities
60. The Division aims at stimulating and developing new and improved facilities for young people. It does this partly by the direct provision of services and partly by lending support and encourage- ment to the many voluntary agencies which are active in this field.
61. The provision of children and youth services is designed for the development of the moral, social, mental and physical well-being of young people through group work programmes, recreational activities and community service projects. Group work programmes in terms of regular youth friendship clubs and interest groups, mass programmes and youth volunteer service projects are currently operated through the four community centres, two social centres and the Sham Shui Po and Fanling Rotary Youth Centres. The formation of self-program- ming groups sponsored by the Youth Work Unit, one of the field units of the Division, presents a new approach in youth work which allows maximum opportunities for the development of leadership quality and community spirit. Special programmes for factory workers and unat- tached youths have also been attempted at various centres and districts. The Division's Youth Camp at Tsuen Wan and the Fanling Youth Hostel were used by 2,941 and 4,742 young people respectively during the year. As one of the contributions of the Department towards the Festival of Hong Kong 1971 a youth project entitled 'Young People's World' was organized to offer opportunities to young people in groups or as individuals to express their ideas, views, imagination and aspirations towards life and society through the media of creative structural design, essay-writing, painting and stage performance. The
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