SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1988
YOUTH URGED TO TAKE ACTIVE ROLE AGAINST DRUGS
A MEMBER OF THE ACTION COMMITTEE
AGAINST NARCOTICS (ACAN), MR LEE JARK-PUI, TODAY (SATURDAY) URGED YOUNG PEOPLE TO TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE IN ANTI-NARCOTICS ACTIVITIES AND THUS HELP FIGHT THE DRUG ABUSE PROBLEM IN HONG KONG.
MR LEE MADE HIS APPEAL AT A CEREMONY HELD IN NEW TOWN PLAZA, SHA TIN, THIS AFTERNOON IN CONNECTION WITH A TWO-DAY JOINT SCHOOL SUMMER PROJECT THAT BEGAN THERE YESTERDAY (FRIDAY).
UNDER THE SPONSORSHIP OF ACAN, THE PROJECT JOINTLY BY THE SOCIAL SERVICE SOCIETY OF WAH YAN COLLEGE AND THE INTERACT CLUB OF MARYMOUNT SECONDARY SCHOOL.
IS ORGANISED
(HONG KONG)
MR LEE SAID HE WAS PARTICULARLY PLEASED TO LEARN THE FUNCTION WAS INITIATED BY A GROUP OF VIGOROUS YOUNG PEOPLE WHO DEVOTED MUCH OF THEIR LEISURE TIME TO COMMUNITY SERVICE AND HELPING ΤΟ DISSEMINATE ANTI-NARCOTICS MESSAGES.
"IT IS IMPORTANT THAT OUR YOUNG GENERATION DEVELOPS IN A HEALTHY WAY, HE ADDED.
IN HIS CAPACITY AS CHAIRMAN OF ACAN'S PREVENTIVE EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY SUBCOMMITTEE, MR LEE SAID ACAN'S ANTI-DRUG PUBLICITY WAS AIMED AT MAKING THE PUBLIC ALERT TO DRUG ABUSE AND ENCOURAGING GREATER COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN COMBATTING THE PROBLEM.
TO ENCOURAGE YOUNG PEOPLE TO SEEK A MORE ACTIVE AND DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN ANTI-NARCOTICS ACTIVITIES, ACAN HAS, SINCE 1981, BEEN OPERATING THE YOUTH AGAINST DRUGS SCHEME.
UNDER THIS, YOUNGSTERS, AGED 12 OR OVER, ARE INVITED то GROUPS OF NOT FEWER THAN 10 MEMBERS TO INITIATE THEIR ANTI-NARCOTICS PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES.
FORM
OWN
"YOUTH GROUPS CAN DESIGN, PLAN AND IMPLEMENT THEIR OWN ANTI-DRUG PREVENTIVE EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT'S NARCOTICS DIVISION," MR LEE SAID.
"A YOUTH VOLUNTEER GROUP HAS ALSO BEEN FORMED.
MR LEE POINTED OUT THAT INTERESTED PARTIES COULD ALSO APPLY FOR SEPARATE FUNDING FOR ORGANISING PROJECTS ON A LARGER SCALE AND THE PRESENT TWO-DAY JOINT PROJECT WAS A GOOD INSTANCE OF THIS.
THE JOINT PROJECT TAKES THE FORM OF AN
EXHIBITION ON
THE
SERIOUSNESS OF DRUG ABUSE.
A VARIETY SHOW, FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY DISC JOCKEYS AND SINGERS, WAS HELD THIS AFTERNOON AS PART OF THE PROJECT.
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