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Thursday, December 21, 1972
SOCIAL WORK TRAINING FUND
Eleventh Annual Report Lists Latest Grants
Twelve social workers, including officers in the Government and
voluntary agencies, were assisted with cash grants from the Social Work
Training Fund during the year ending on March 31, 1972, to enable them
to pursue further studies abroad.
The expenditure involved amounted to $152,101.
In addition, says the Director of Social Welfare, Trustee of the
Fund, in the 11th annual report just published, selected representatives
from local welfare organisations and the Government had been able, through
the Fund, to take part during the year in social work conferences abroad.
In this connection, a grant from the Fund enabled an official from
the Chinese University of Hong Kong to attend the Executive Board of the
International Association of Social Workers in Edinburgh in July, 1971.
Another grant enabled four Hong Kong representatives to participate
in the International Conference on Social Work in Singapore a month earlier,
A third grant made it possible for the Chinese University of
Hong Kong to send two representatives to the Seminar on Social Work Education
in Bombay in October.
The 12 individual grants enabled social workers to attend the
University of Toronto, the University College of Swansea, and McGill
University, among others, and courses taken up included those leading
to the Master of Social Work degree.
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