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Sunday, March 31, 1974
REHABILITATION WEEK LEADS TO GREATER PUBLIC AWARENESS
The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, said today that he hoped
that Hong Kong's Rehabilitation Week would lead to practical results.
The week-long programme of activities with ite theme of
Opportunity for Ability, shall have helped to make the community more
aware of what the disabled can do, he said.
He noted that more than 5,000 people had visited the Exhibition
staged on three days last week at the City Hall and that in addition
the Joint Council for the Physically and Mentally Handicapped had
organised a mobile display which drew large numbers of visitors.
"The disabled look to us for opportunities to take part in
normal working life. The public have now been able to see for themselves
the remarkable skills which these less fortunate citizens can practice,'
Sir Murray said.
"We now need the co-operation of the public and particularly of
employers in affording the handicapped an opportunity to show what they can
do
His Excellency also noted that people with a wide range of
disabilities had recently been placed in jobs as clerks, machine sewers, apprentices, type setters, assemblers and as a lift operator and a
telephonist.
He pledged that the Job Placement Unit of the Rehabilitation Division of the Social Welfare Department would continue to play an active and positive role in promoting the placement of handicapped people and in seeking to secure the fullest co-operation of employers in this.
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