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Wednesday, March 14, 1973
TOUR OF VOLUNTARY SOCIAL WELFARE ESTABLISHMENTS
By Director's Wife
Mrs. Li Fook-kow, wife of the Director of Social Welfare, will
be making the third of a series of weekly visits to voluntary social
welfare establishments tomorrow (Thursday).
At 10.30 a.m. she will tour the Tokwawan Workshop for the
Blind operated by the Hong Kong Society for the Blind at No. 19 Mok
Cheong Street, Tokwawan, Kowloon.
Mrs. Li will be met on arrival by the Rev. K.L. Stumpf, chairman
of the Society, and Mrs. Ina Chan, the Workshop Superintendent.
The workshop provides on the job training and sheltered employment
for 160 blind workers and 40 who are partially sighted.
At 11.20 a.m. Mrs. Li will be visiting the Hong Kong School
for the Deaf, where she will be met by the Principal, Miss S.W. Bow.
The school is situated at Hammer Hill Road, Diamond Hill, Kowloon.
It trains deaf children to speak and lip-read Cantonese. There are 208
students at the school, which is the only one of its kind in Hong Kong.
Note to Editors:
You are invited to send a reporter and photographer
to cover Mrs. Li's visits tomorrow.
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