FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 4 1987
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STREET SLEEPERS URGED TO USE SHELTER
**
TO MAKE
STREET SLEEPERS IN WAN CHAI WERE TODAY (FRIDAY) URGED
A JOINT VISIT TO STREET USE OF A SHELTER AT MALLORY STREET DURING SLEEPERS' BLACKSPOTS BY GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES, VOLUNTARY AND DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS.
WORKERS
PART
STREET
THE VISIT, INITIATED BY THE WAN CHAI DISTRICT OFFICE, WAS OF A CONCERTED AND CONTINUOUS EFFORT TO CONTAIN THE PROBLEM OF SLEEPING IN WAN CHAI, ACCORDING TO DISTRICT OFFICER MR ALLAN CHOW.
THE PUBLICISING
MALLORY STREET SHELTER, HOMELESS IN WAN CHAI WILL BECOME AWARE OF THE ACCOMMODATION TO THEM, AND MAKE FULL USE OF IT, HE SAID.
"BY
THE
WE HOPE
AVAILABLE
SOCIAL WELFARE LED BY MR CHOW, THE PARTY, COMPRISING DISTRICT
WAN CHAI), MR OFFICER (EASTERN AND
MUT
CHAIRMAN KAN-KIT;
OF THE DISTRICT BOARD STREET SLEEPERS' SHELTER SOCIETY, MR M.J.Y. ROWSE AND
TO MEMBERS DISTRIBUTED PAMPHLETS TO STREET SLEEPERS AND INVITED THEM
A MAKE AN INSTANT VISIT TO THE SHELTER FOR
UNDERSTANDING OF
THE PLACE.
BETTER
COVERED IN MAJOR STREET SLEEPERS BLACKSPOTS WERE
THE VISIT,
INCLUDING
SECTION OF O'BRIEN THE
ROAD
TO ADJACENT
SOUTHORN DEVELOPMENT, AND THE JUNCTION OF O'BRIEN ROAD AND JAFFE ROAD.
MUI
DISTRICT SOCIAL WELFARE OFFICER (EASTERN AND WAN CHAI), MR
WERE ABOUT 60 TO 70 STREET KAN-KIT, SAID AT THE VISIT THAT THERE SLEEPERS
WAN CHAI,
BIGGEST CONCENTRATION PEDESTRIAN PRECINCT OUTSIDE SOUTHORN DEVELOPMENT.
IN
WITH THE
AT
THE
THE MALLORY
то THE GROUP CONCLUDED THE FUNCTION WITH A VISIT STREET STREET SLEEPERS' SHELTER WHERE THEY WERE BRIEFED BY MR ROWSE ON THE FACILITIES INSIDE.
THE GROUP WAS
SHELTER,
TOLD THAT THE
RUN BY THE STREET
AND PROVIDED 40 PLACES FOR MEN
20 PLACES PM TO 8 AM DAILY AND OFFERED
BASIC
SLEEPERS' SHELTER SOCIETY, FOR WOMEN. IT OPENED FROM 6 NECESSITIES SUCH AS BEDS, SHOWERS AND LOCKERS FREE OF CHARGE.
SPEAKING AFTER THE VISIT, DISTRICT LAM SAID SHE HOPED THE PROBLEM OF STREET SLEEPERS IN BE IMPROVED AFTER THE SHELTER AT MALLORY STREET HAD TO THEM.
BOARD CHAIRMAN
MR9
PEGGY
WAN
CHAI
WOULD
BEEN
MADE
KNOWN
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