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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
28 DISABLED PEOPLE FOUND JOBS
Thursday, November 16, 1972
Twenty-eight disabled people were assisted by the Social Welfare
Department's Liaison and Placement Unit into commercially-competitive jobs
during October.
The group included seven blind, 10 crippled, four deaf, three
mentally retarded, two former psychiatric patients, and two cured tuberculosis
patients.".
workshops
They were accepted into "open" industry as opposed to sheltered
as unskilled and semi-skilled workers, assemblers, sewers,
packers, cleaners, watchmen, gardeners, and bell-boys.
Heading the list of industrial organisations taking on the disabled
during the month was the Rover Electronice Limited, who accepted 10 people
seven of them were blind and three crippled.
All were engaged as assembly workers, and reports indicate that
they all are doing well.
"Indeed," says Mr. Paul Leung, Officer in charge of the Unit, "the
employment of seven blind people for assembly work by this company proves
that those who have lost their sight are still able to compete with the able-
bodied provided they are placed in an appropriate job after suitable training."
He understands from the management of the Rover Electronics Limited
that they have confidence in the blind for assembly work "because they are
capable, efficient, and remain at their jobs as a stabilising influence
in the face of a great turnover among the able-bodies in the electronics industry.'
Mr. Leung
Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191