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Community project to promote care for elderly
The Education Department's Community Youth Club will hold a ceremony to launch a territory-wide "Caring for the Elderly" project tomorrow (Wednesday).
The community service project - involving 7,600 club members and benefiting 3,800 elderly people in 19 districts will help to promote young people's love and care for the elderly.
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A spokesman for the department said the aim of the project was to encourage club members to take active part in community service and to offer them opportunities to show respect and concern for the elderly.
"Students taking part in the project will undergo a training programme to learni about the psychology of the old people. Subsequent home visits and gatherings will be arranged to provide students with an opportunity to meet their elderly friends and to establish friendship.
"Those who complete the project with devotion and merit will receive an award," he said.
The Assistant Director of Education (Chief Inspector of Schools), Mr Ho Che- leung and the Chairman of the Law's Foundation, Mr Raymond Law, will officiate at the launching ceremony at the concert hall, Tuen Mun Town Hall.
On Friday (December 23), North District Community Youth Club members will organise a vegetarian banquet for 200 elderly people in the district. Gifts and lucky money will also be distributed to them.
The project is organised by the Community Youth Club of the Education Department and sponsored by the Law's Foundation.
Attention News Editors:
The opening ceremony of the "Caring for the Elderly" community service project will be held at the concert hall, Tuen Mun Town Hall, at 2.45 pm tomorrow (Wednesday).