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Saturday, March 23, 1974
BUFFET LUNCH FOR SEVERELY DISABLED
A. group of 35 severely disabled people will be feted at a
buffet lunch on March 29 as guests of the Hongkong Hilton Hotel.
The hotel has arranged to entertain the group in support of
Rehabilitation Week which is being held from March 25 to 31.
The handicapped people are some of those living and working
in the Settlement for the Severely Disabled run by the Social Welfare
Department in Block 10 of the Kwun Tong Public Housing Estate.
The Settlement for the Severely Disabled is a workshop providing
employment for 105 people whose disabilities do not permit them to
obtain employment outside. Their ages range from 16 and over. They
include 50 who are mentally-retarded and 30 physical disabilities.
Apart from this workshop there is also a hostel for 30 male workers.
Miss Stella Leung, Officer-in-Charge of the Blind and Physically
Disabled Welfare Unit in the Social Welfare Department, said the offer
to entertain those handicapped people was a very nice gesture on the
part of the hotel and it would be a new and happy experience for those
who would be attending.
Rehabilitation Week is a seven-day period in which there will
be exhibitions, variety shows, talks on careers in helping the handicapped
and tours of rehabilitation centres run by 22 organisations including the
Social Welfare Department
The Week