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Wednesday, March 7, 1973
DIRECTOR'S WIFE TO TOUR TRAINING CENTRES
Two training centres operated in Kowloon by voluntary welfare agencies will be visited tomorrow (Thursday) by Mrs. Li Fook-kow, wife of the Jirector
of Social Welfare.
She will be accompanied by Mr. Ku Choon-keong, Acting Principal Social Welfare Officer (Rehabilitation).
Mrs, Li will be making a visit at 10:10 a.5, to the Sau Mau Ping
Training Centre of the Spastics Association of Hong Kong. The centre was opened
at Hock 25, Sau Mau Ping Resettlement Estate in January this year.
It operates as a day training centre for up to 80 children in two
half-day sessions. The children are trained in self-care, taught to socialise
and prepared for further special education on vocational training.
At 11:20 a.m., Mrs. Li will visit the Margaret Trench Medical Rehabilitation Centre, No. 254 Kwun Tong Road. Operated by the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation, the centre caters for 80 physically dimbled
patients.
Note to Editors:
You are invited to send a reporter/
photographer to cover Mrs. Li's visits.
Release time: 7.00 p.m.