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HUSAMMENT INFORMATION SERVICES

THE NEVE DAILY

INFORMATION BULLETIN

Sunday, April 30, 1972

ASSISTANCE TO VOLUNTARY AGENCIES

Over $28 Million Allocated From Government Lotteries Fund

Government has allocated more than $28 million from its Lotteries

Fund over the past 10 years to aid voluntary welfare agencies.

Mr. Alex So, Chairman of the Government Lotteries Management Committee, said the Lotteries Fund had a total of 80 beneficiaries and had aided 115 projects at the end of last year.

He said the scope of these projects was wide in order to meet the needs of the community.

The projects include children's youth activities and residential establishments, nurseries, play centres and creches, vocational training and education, rehabilitation, and services for the handicapped, ex-drug addicts and ex-prisoners.

"The Lotteries Fund also benefits projects which provide services for the aged, families and the needy, surveys and researches," he said.

Nine organisations have received allocations from the Fund over the

years, each getting more than $1 million.

These