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Tuesday, May 9, 1972
APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS
For Summer Youth Programme
More than 30,000 volunteers are needed to assist with the extensive
programme of activities planned for young people in Hong Kong this summer.
An appeal for these volunteers was made today by Mrs. Mary Wong
Wing-cheung, an organising official, who said that the colony's annual
programme may well be the biggest of its kind in South-East Asia.
She said that about one million young people a quarter of Hong
Kong's population
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are expected to be provided with some form of entertainment
and recreation this summer.
"Various organisations and government departments concerned
with recreation activities for young people are mapping out a comprehensive
programme,
she added.
The operation of such a programme of activities depends very much
on young people taking part not only as participants, but also as leaders
or helpers. The success of this type of venture depends on the active
participation and co-operation of volunteers."
Mrs. Wong is Chairman of Hong Kong Council of Social Service,
Chairman of Heep Hong Club for Handicapped Children and Chairman of the
Association of Volunteers for Service.
/She
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