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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1979
TWO-DAY CAMP FOR S.W.D.'S DISABLED TRAINEES
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MORE THAN 200 DISABLED TRAINEES FROM ONE OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT'S REHABILITATION CENTRES TODAY (WEDNESDAY) TOOK PART IN A TWO-DAY CAMP IN TUEN MUN ORGANISED IN RESPONSE TO THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE CHILD.
MOST OF THE TRAINEES, FROM THE WORLD REHABILITATION FUND DAY CENTRE, ARE STAYING OVERNIGHT AT THE CAMP SITE IN HOH FOK TONG CENTRE.
THE IR FUN-FILLED CAMPING ACTIVITIES INCLUDE BARBARCUE, GROUP GAMES, RAFFLE DRAW AND VARIETY SHOW.
A LEADING TSUEN WAN COMMUNITY LEADER, MR. YUENG CHUN-PUI HAS DONATED $10,000 TOWARDS THE CAMP, AS WELL AS OTHER ACTIVITIES TO BE ORGANISED BY THE REHABILITATION CENTRE.
RECEIVING THE DONATION FROM MR. YEUNG AT A CEREMONY AT THE CAMP SITE THIS AFTERNOON, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MRS. EVELYN DOE, SAID ORGANISING THE CAMP WAS IN LINE WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE YEAR OF THE CHILD, WHICH IS TO AROUSE WIDESPREAD CONCERN ON THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN.
MRS. DOE SAID THAT IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OBJECTIVE, THE DEPARTMENT AND VOLUNTARY WELFARE AGENCIES, HAD BEEN ORGANISING A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES TO HELP PROMOTE THE WELL BEING OF CHILDREN.
+ON THE OTHER HAND, THE DEPARTMENT HAS ALSO BEEN EQUALLY CONCERNED WITH THE WELL BEING OF THE DISABLED, SHE SAID.
AT PRESENT, SHE SAID, THE DEPARTMENT IS RUNNING 19 REHABILITATION INSTITUTIONS CATERING FOR ABOUT 1,780 PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED AND MENTALLY DISABLED PEOPLE.
OF THESE, THE WORLD REHABILITATION FUND DAY CENTRE IS ONE, PROVIDING BOTH PRE-VOCATIONAL AND VOCATION TRAINING TO THE DISABLED AS WELL AS HELPING THEM TO ACHIEVE A BALANCED DEVELOPMENT THROUGH A VARIETY OF EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, SHE SAID.
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