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Thursday, January 3, 1974
FINDING JOBS FOR THE DISABLED
Applications from disabled people for job assistance went up
again in November last year when the Job Placement Unit of Social Welfare
Department received 66 applications.
However, the unit is still encountering difficulties in finding
jobs for them, according to Mr. Chan Shiu-wing, Officer-in-charge of the
Unit. While job openings for unskilled disabled persons were rather limited,
there was still a need for skilled workers in some trades such as trained
machine sewing workers, he said.
Through its rehabilitation centres the department can provide
vocational training to disabled persons to give them a better chance of
getting employment, he said, and he urged, disabled people to take advantage
of this.
For the month under review, the unit successfully found open
employments for 25 disabled persons.
They comprised 12 crippled, eight deaf, four cured mentally ill
patients and one mentally retarded.
They were engaged as a junior clerk, a painter, apprentices,
a watchman, cleansing workers, machine sewing workers, assemblers,
thread trimmers, packers and general factory workers.
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