Tuesday, October 17, 1972
JOBS FOUND FOR 21 DISABLED PEOPLE DURING SEPTEMBER
Twenty-one disabled people were assisted by the Social Welfare
Department's Liaison and Placement Unit into commercially-competitive jobs
during September.
The group included 10 physically handicapped and two slightly
mentally retarded people.
They were accepted into "open" industry as opposed to sheltered
workshops -- as unskilled and semi-skilled workers, watchmen, packers, lift
operators, and assemblers.
One industrial organisation, Cosmos International Garment Manu-
facturing Limited, employed six of the disabled people.
The Lever Shirt Garment Weaving Factory took on a group of five,
as sewing machine operators and the Urban Services Department took on a
young man as a labourer for the Central Market.
Mr. Chan Shiu-wing, acting Officer-in-charge of the Unit, today
urged enlightened employers in Hong Kong to follow the example in England
where the tendency is to engage disabled for operating lifts and looking
after car parks.
He hopes the hotel industry will consider reserving such posts
for these disabled in the future, and he commends the YMCA International
House for engaging a crippled young man last month to operate a lift in
the building.
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