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Tuesday, January 29, 1974
FOUNDING CEREMONY OF YOUTH GUIDANCE COUNCIL
A ceremony to mark the founding of the West Kowloon Youth Guidance
Council will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) at the Tai Hang Tung Community Centre
of the Social Welfare Department.
Officiating at the ceremony, which begins at 4 p.m. will be Mr.
Thomas C.Y. Lee, Deputy Director of Social Welfare, who will present certificates
to the Council's honorary presidents. They are Mr. Chung Wing Hong, Mr. Ho
Sau Hong, Mr. Henry H.L. Hu, Mr. Fan Tsi On, Dr. William J.F. Lew and Mr. Yu
Kam Ming.
The Council was formed recently and consists of 79 members representing
schools, social services agencies, churches and other organisations in the Tai
Hang Thing, Tai Ilang Sai, Yau Yat Chuen and Shek Kip Mei districts in the west
part of Kowloon.
Among the objectives of the Council are to pool together local expertise
and resources to provide long-term guidance schemes for youngsters and their
parents, to co-ordinate children and youth services in the area and to assist
members of the Council in developing children and youth programmes wherever
necessary.
It also aims to study and conduct research into children and youth
problems in general, making recommendations to the appropriate authorities
concerned where it is felt necessary and to actively involve local youths and
residents in solving their own problems and those of their community.
The President of the Council is Mr. Wong Shiu Cheuk, an Urban Councillor.
Chairman of the Executive Council is Mr. Yuen Shiu Sun, Principal of the Po un
Commercial Association School.
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