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82. By the end of the year the fourteen cottage areas had schools. with places for a total of 15,500 children, four boys' and girls' clubs, thirteen welfare centres and eleven clinics. There are nine Kaifong Welfare Associations, working under the guidance of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, in Chai Wan, So Kon Po, Mount Davis, Ho Man Tin, King's Park, Lai Chi Kok, Ngau Tau Kok, Chuk Yuen and Tai Hang Sai.
83. In the multi-storey estates the Resettlement Department has no sites to offer to voluntary agencies, and a different policy has had to be evolved. The open roofs of multi-storey buildings, with penthouses at either end, were designed for recreation and welfare purposes and this fact has been made known by the Social Welfare Department to all voluntary agencies, several of which have started boys' and girls' clubs on these rooftops, for which no rent is charged. Voluntary agencies may also rent other rooms, either on ground or upper floors, for welfare purposes approved by the Social Welfare Department. The urgent need for schools was met by allocating the rooftops of resettlement buildings to voluntary agencies to be used for primary schools, the penthouses at either end being enclosed and converted into classrooms, while the open spaces in between become school playgrounds. At the end of the year there were 38 boys' and girls' clubs and 80 primary schools on the rooftops of multi-storey buildings and many more applications by voluntary agencies who wishes to start schools were being considered. The fees charged by these schools are limited to a maximum of $60 a year.
84. The first estate blocks of the new design providing more spacious ground floor rooms were completed during the year and on 31st March, 1960 seven schools were in operation in ground floor rooms in these blocks. These schools are operated by voluntary agencies as co- educational vernacular primary schools under the Education Depart- ment's Subsidy Code.
85. Ground floor rooms are also suitable for casework centres, such as the one now run by the Family Welfare Association at Shek Kip Mei, for medical clinics, two of which have been opened by the Medical Department, one at Tai Hang Tung and one at Li Cheng Uk, and for a variety of other welfare purposes. These include a clinic run by the Family Planning Association at Wong Tai Sin Estate; five milk distribu- tion centres, one each at Shek Kip Mei, Tai Hang Tung and Li Cheng Uk Estates and two at Wong Tai Sin Estate, which are operated by the Church World Service; children's libraries at Shek Kip Mei and Wong
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