FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1988
$2.1 MILLION TO PROMOTE CIVIC EDUCATION
THE GOVERNMENT WILL
PROMOTION OF CIVIC
SPEND
$2.1
MILLION
YEAR NEXT
FOR THE SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT
DEPUTY THE EDUCATION, ADMINISTRATION, MR BOWEN LEUNG, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).
MR LEUNG WAS SPEAKING AT A RECEPTION HAD PARTICIPATED IN THE "TO CARE AND TO GIVE : HELD AT VICTORIA PARK ON DECEMBER 18.
FOR ORGANISATIONS
WHICH CIVIC EDUCATION DAY"
MEMBERS OF MR LEUNG SAID IT WAS ENCOURAGING THAT ABOUT 20,000
PARK ON THE PUBLIC HAD VISITED THE VARIOUS STALLS SET UP IN VICTORIA
SUPPORT THROUGH DONATIONS OR THE DAY, MANY OF WHOM HAD SHOWN THEIR JOINING THE VARIOUS SERVICE GROUPS ON THE SPOT.
PEOPLE HAD DONATED BLOOD, 130 "IN ONE SINGLE DAY, SOME 100
" HE SAID. PEOPLE DONATED THEIR CORNEA AND 450 PEOPLE THEIR KIDNEYS,
ΤΟ SERVE THE IN ADDITION, THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS HAD PLEDGED
TREE, COMMUNITY BY HANGING HEART-SHAPED CARDS ON TO A CIVIC EDUCATION HE NOTED.
THROUGH
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE "THESE FIGURES CLEARLY SHOW THAT
AND HELP MUTUAL
CARE
ACTIVE AWARE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT," MR LEUNG SAID.
EDUCATION DAY WAS TWO-FOLDED. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CIVIC
PUBLIC TO FIRSTLY, IT HAD PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MEMBERS OF THE KNOW ABOUT THE SERVICES OF THE PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS.
"SECONDLY, IT ENABLES THE COMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION
THE PARTICIPATING EDUCATION TO
INTO CONTACT WITH ENTER THEREBY LAYING A
FURTHER CO-OPERATION FOUNDATION FOR PROMOTION OF CIVIC EDUCATION, MR LEUNG SAID.
FIRM
OF CIVIC BODIES, IN THE
WILL JOIN HANDS RESIDENTS
MR LEUNG HOPED THAT ALL PARTICIPATING BODIES TOGETHER AGAIN IN FUTURE IN A JOINT EFFORT TO DRIVE HOME TO THE CIVIC EDUCATION MESSAGES.
YOUTH DRAWING
AT TODAY'S RECEPTION, WINNERS OF A HELD ON THE CIVIC EDUCATION DAY WERE PRESENTED PRIZES.
COMPETITION
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