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Thursday, February 28, 1974
MORE COMMUNITY AND YOUTH OFFICERS APPOINTED
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The Social Welfare Department today appointed another three
Community and Youth Officers in the implementation of the second stage
of the Scheme.
The new officers are Mrs. Henrietta Chen who is to be CYO for
Wong Tai Sin District; Mr. Alfred Chui Wing-man, CYO for Kowloon City
and Mr. Lam Ping-kuen, CYO for Mongkok.
Mr. Stephen Law, Senior Principal Social Welfare Officer in charge
of the Group and Community Work Division under which the scheme operates,
said it was intended originally to appoint five CYOs in the second stage
of the scheme, but because the cross transfer of staff was involved it
was decided to appoint only three this time to ensure there is no disruption
of the work within the department as a whole.
"This does not mean any set-back in the scheme because we expect
to be able to appoint the other two in April," he explained.
Today's appointments bring to nine the number of CYOS appointed
since the scheme was formally established on December 5 last year.
The three new CYOs have had a number of years' experience in
Youth and Community Work and two of them, Mr. Chui and Mr. Lan had
previously been District Community Officers for Yaumatei and Wanchai
respectively, the experiment from which the present scheme was evolved.
Mrs. Chen was previously Warden of the Wong Tai Sin Community Centre.
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