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THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1991
SWD OUT-REACHING TEAMS SCORE TRIPLE SUCCESS
* * *
AFTER
WELFARE
AN
A SOCIAL EFFORTS, FOUR
OF SUSTAINED YEARS DEPARTMENT (SWD) OUT-REACHING TEAM FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN CONVINCING 80-YEAR-OLD WOMAN AND HER 60-YEAR-OLD SON TO GIVE UP STREET-SLEEPING.
THEY USED AH HO AND HER SON ARE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE RECIPIENTS.
DESPITE REPEATED OFFERS OF TO LIVE IN A SIDE STREET IN CENTRAL AND
THE PAIR HAD REMAINED COMPASSIONATE REHOUSING AND OTHER UNMOVED.
SERVICES,
AND IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS, SWD WORKERS VISITED THEM REGULARLY
ACCOMMODATION. ONLY ON TWO TIME AND AGAIN OFFERED THEM ALTERNATIVE
BUT THEY OCCASIONS HAD THE PAIR AGREED TO GIVE UP STREET-SLEEPING, FAILED TO TURN UP FOR THE APPOINTMENTS TO COMPLETE THE FORMALITIES FOR THEIR MOVING INTO A CUBICLE IN CENTRAL OR A TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA OF CHOICE.
THEIR
HOWEVER, SWD STAFF, CONVINCED THAT THE PAIR WOULD CHANGE MIND ONE DAY, NEVER WAVERED IN THEIR EFFORTS.
THE
SOCIAL
NOW, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF DEPARTMENTS, AH HO AND HER SON HAVE STARTED A NEW HOUSING UNIT ON HONG KONG ISLAND.
WELFARE AND HOUSING LIFE IN A PUBLIC
$3,000 ΤΟ ASSIST THEY WERE ALSO GIVEN A REMOVAL ALLOWANCE OF
CONTINUE TO WILL SWD STAFF THEIR UP
NEW HOME. THEM IN SETTING
NEED BE ΤΟ
ASSISTANCE SEE IF ANY FURTHER MONITOR THEIR WELFARE RENDERED.
MEANWHILE, ANOTHER
SWD
CONVINCED A 60-YEAR-OLD STREET SLEEPER ON THE WALKWAY OF POST OFFICE IN CENTRAL TO ACCEPT COMPASSIONATE REHOUSING.
SUCCESSFULLY THE GENERAL
OUT-REACHING
TEAM ALSO
A
THIS ELDERLY MAN HAS BEEN ADAMANT
MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH WALKWAY FOR YEARS. HIS HEALTH BEGAN TO DETERIORATE.
ON THE ON STREET-SLEEPING
POSSIBLE RECENTLY WAS
AS
ON THE ADVICE OF
SWD
HOSPITAL. DURING THE TREATMENT
AGAIN SUGGESTED COMPASSIONATE REHOUSING POSITIVE THIS TIME.
STAFF,
PERIOD,
HE
BE ΤΟ AGREED SWD STAFF VISITED HIM FOR HIM. THE RESPONSE
ADMITTED
ΤΟ
AND
WAS
ARRANGEMENTS WERE
DULY
MADE
AND THE MAN
IS
NOW
AWAITING
ALLOCATION OF A PUBLIC HOUSING UNIT.
OF
CLIENT
THE A ANOTHER IN
CASE, OUT-REACHING TEAM WHO HAD BEEN A STREET SLEEPER QUITTED STREET-SLEEPING.
EAST
REGIONAL KOWLOON FOR 24 YEARS, ALSO
AH KONG, 55, HAS BEEN KNOWN TO SWD SINCE THE
AND THE YEARS HE HAS BEEN GIVEN MONETARY WELL AS TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION.
LATE 60'S. OVER AS EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCES
/HOWEVER, DESPITE