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Thursday, November 23, 1972
TRAINED BLIND WORKERS SEEKING EMPLOYMENT
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The head of the newly-created Rehabilitation Division of the
Social Welfare Department, Mr. T.P. Khoo, today appealed to employers
in Hong Kong to engage trained blind staff for certain telephone and
typing jobs.
He said the Hong Kong Society for the Klind's Rotary Training
Centro in Shau Kei Wan had trained a number of blind for these tasks since
it began to function some years ago.
The training has included the operation of a telephone switch-
board, especially adapted to suit the blind, normal business conversation
in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, and typing from a dictaphone.
Mr. Khoo said the Division's Liaison and Placement Unit had
assisted many of the centre's graduate trainees into jobs in hospitals,
voluntary agencies, government departments, commercial firms and factories
where they had proved to be "efficient, reiiable and conscientious," and
where they had "earned a good reputation for themselves and other trained
blind."
But of a group of five young blind graduates from a recent training
class, only two had so far been assisted into appropriate jobs, and the
other three are still waiting for employment.
Mr. Khoo urged employers to come forward and help in the employment
of blind workers.
Prospective employers should get in touch, in the first place, with
Mr. Paul Leung, Officer in charge of the Liaison and Placement Unit, telephone
K-419221, or H-707878.
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