51. In line with the principle that disabled young persons should be given as much opportunity as possible to participate in outing and sports, and to lead a full life in the community, the Department or- ganized a 3 days' camp at the Wu Kai Sha Youth Village in September 1972 for about 260 handicapped members of the Department's clubs and centres.
52. In helping to meet the needs of deaf persons, an experimental project was started at the Tai Hang Tung Deaf Club to provide evening activities for deaf persons who are either working or studying during the day.
Job Placement
53. The Rehabilitation Division has a Job Placement Unit whose primary task is to ensure as far as possible the placement of selected disabled persons in suitable remunerative employment. It achieves this by maintaining frequent contacts with Government Departments, factories and other employers. The extent of successful rehabilitation may be measured by the fact that, during the year, the unit found suit- able employment for 293 disabled persons. This group included 38 blind, 114 crippled, 55 deaf, 3 cured-lepers, 48 ex-mentally ill, 13 cured-T.B. patients and 22 mentally retarded persons. An encouraging sign among these figures, was the increasing numbers of blind persons accepted for industrial employment.
54. Some of the services provided by the Department to help inte- grate the disabled with the rest of the community as contributing members, were underlined at the Vocational Training Exhibition opened by H.E. the Governor, Sir Murray MACLEBOSH, on 8th May 1972. A feature which attracted much attention during the Exhibition was a demonstration by disabled trainees working on machines.
55. Voluntary agencies continued to play a significant part in the expansion of rehabilitation services. In March 1973, the Hong Kong Association for Mentally Handicapped Children and Young Persons Ltd. opened a new centre, called the Kwai Fong Morninglight Centre, at the Kwai Fong Government Low Cost Housing Estate. The same organization also opened another school for mild graders at Yau Tong Government Low Cost Housing Estate. Both projects were financed in part by capital grants from the Lotteries Fund. The Association is in the process of taking over from the Christian Children
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