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Monday, September 4, 1972
NEW WELFARE PROJECT TO HELP IN THE HOME
The Hong Kong Family Welfare Society proposes to carry out a one-year
experimental project on home-help service.
The pilot-project has the strong support of the Social Welfare
Advisory Committee and a recurrent grant of $57,600 from the Lotteries Fund
has been approved for the purpose.
The service is designed to provide domestic help such as cooking,
washing and house-cleaning for the aged, the physically handicapped, the
mentally-ill and the chronically-ill housewives.
It also takes care of children where mothers have to be away from
home for short periods of time.
Assistance is provide in escorting the aged, handicapped or infirm
to clinics and in visiting lonely people in hospitals and homes for the aged.
Help in the home enables needy individuals and families to live
normal lives and may possibly reduce the demand for care in residential
institutions, which is expensive to provide.
With further improvements in the Government's Public Assistance
Scheme, the Family Welfare Society is now beginning to move away from the
field of relief services. The home-help service experiment could enable
the Society to review its future activities and aims.
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