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Friday, February 23, 1973
$2 MILLION GRANT TO NEW CENTRE
Catering 160 Under-Privileged Boys
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The Government has granted a piece of land and more than $2 million
from the Lotteries Fund to the Society of Boys' Centres to build a second
centre in Shanshuipo for under-privileged boys.
The new centre is intended to provide a home for boys from eight
to 16 years of age who are potential delinquents and are deprived of normal
parental care, or who are otherwise in need of care and protection.
The total cost of the project is estimated at about $2.6 million.
The Society has raised $490,000 and the balance will be met by the Lotteries Fund.
In addition, the Government is also considering a recommendation to
offer assistance towards the new centre's recurrent expenditure.
Situated on a site of 49,000 sq. ft. in Cornw 11 Street, the centre
will have hostel accommodation for 160 inmates. Part of the centre has also
been designed as a school with pre-vocational training, gymnastics and other
facilities.
Construction of the four-storey building began last month and is
expected to be completed in September this year.
An Executive Councillor, Sir Yuet-keung Kan, will perform a foundation-
laying ceremony for the new building on March 9.
The Society is, at present, running a centre in Shing Tak Street, To
Kwa Wan, with similar hostel and school facilities for 140 boys from destitute
families and others with some behaviour problems.
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