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Mrs Chow had a long service with a local university student affairs office and was the Director of Student Affairs. She had undertaken extensive voluntary service in tertiary education institutions. As regards public service, she had served the chairmanship of the Review Sub-committee, Working Party on Tertiary Students' Expenditure Survey and Appeal Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Student Finance and membership of the Joint Committee on Student Finance and the Guest Panel of the United Kingdom/Hong Kong Scholarships Committee.
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CSD community projects much appreciated
Over the past three years, the Correctional Services Department's (CSD) programme of community projects has provided worthwhile assistance to a number of charitable establishments and private organisations.
The department provides the manpower to carry out work that generally require physical labour such as grass-cutting, cleansing, painting and various repairs to paths, furniture and fence.
A spokesman for the department said CSD staff supervised teams of prisoners from minimum security penal institutions to carry out outside work.
"The inmates are hand-picked to ensure that they not only carry out the job properly but that they are well-behaved when working outside of the institutions.
"Usually, these inmates are serving short term sentences therefore there is no incentive for them to try to escape or cause trouble," said the spokesman.
During the past three years, CSD staff and the work teams have spent more than 730 working days carrying out such performances, which is recognised as an invaluable service by those who have benefited from the work.
Recently a group of school children, aged between five and eight, from the Lantau International Learning Centre sent the department "thank you" drawings to express their appreciation to staff and inmates of Ma Po Ping Prison and Tong Fuk Centre for helping to renovate an old school building at Tong Fuk, and subsequently carrying out minor maintenance to ensure that it was well kept.