Saturday, January 12, 1974
A QUIET PLACE TO STUDY
With the crowded living conditions one of the main worries of parents
is that their children have no place in which they could go to study or do
their school work.
This concern was expressed recently by some parents in the Tsz Wan
Shan Housing Estate who approached welfare associations to see if they could
help provide some solution.
One organisation which the parents called on was the Taz Wan Shan
Estate Community Work Office of the Social Welfare Department.
"The parents said their children could not study properly because
they did not have anywhere quiet to go. The confined areas of their homes
and the noisy environment was a handicap to their children's mood of study,
said Mrs. Siu Law Gook-fong, Officer-in-charge of the community work office.
"To provide an immediate solution to this problem, we have turned
the assembly hall of the Tsz Wan Shan Estate Welfare Building into a study
room for the students," she said,
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This study room is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and again from 2 p.m.
to 5 p.. daily each week day. With accommodation for more than one hundred
students, it is divided into sections for secondary and primary students.
"This study room provides them with a quiet atmosphere in which
they can study and concentrate on their school work.
Volunteers help the
students, providing guidance not only in their studies but in their behaviour
and other matters," Mrs. Siu said.
"By doing this, we hope that eventually the older students would also
play an active part and guide the younger ones developing the spirit of co-operative
relationship while at the same time helping in their character development, "she added.
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