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Sixth activity centre for overseas domestic helpers opens
A new activity centre for overseas domestic helpers (ODHs) to spend their rest day is opened today (Sunday), bringing to six the total number of Sunday-only activity
centres.
Located at the King George V School at 2 Tin Kwong Road in Ma Tau Wai, Kowloon, the centre will provide a venue for ODH groups to organise educational, sports and recreational activities for about 370 participants.
The other five Sunday-only activity centres are at Clementi Secondary School and Po Leung Kuk Yu Lee Mo Fan Memorial School in North Point; Ho Tung Technical School for Girls in Causeway Bay; Jockey Club Government Secondary Technical School in Kowloon Tong; and Kowloon Technical School in Sham Shui Po.
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Two full-time service centres are also operating in Kennedy Town and Mong
All the ODH Centres are set up under a Government scheme implemented in September 1994 by the Home Affairs Department to provide alternative venues for ODHs to gather on their day off.
All the centres are managed by The Hong Kong Bayanihan Trust which is a non-profit making organisation founded in 1993 by a group of Filipino businessmen in Hong Kong with the objective of providing sheltered facilities for organising social, cultural and vocational activities for ODHs.
Officiating guests at the opening of the King George V School activity centre were the Assistant Secretary for Home Affairs, Ms Linda So; the Executive Director of The Hong Kong Bayanihan Trust, Mr Juan Ignacio Ramos; and the Deputy Principal of King George V School, Mrs Elizabeth Muscroft.
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