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Saturday, May 6, 1972

TRAINING OF THE DISABLED

S.W.D.'s Contribution To Exhibition

Some of the services provided by the Social Welfare Department

to help integrate the disabled back into the community as contributing

members will be underlined at the Vocational Training Exhibition in the

Kei Heep Secondary Modern School which the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose,

will open on Monday.

Mr. Ku Choon-keong, Social Welfare Officer representing the

Department on the exhibition's Organising Committee, says the SWD's

contribution consists of a "practical introduction to the Department's

vocational training among the handicapped."

The SWD stall will include demonstrations of trainees at work on

machines for lock-stitching and knitting. There will also be photographs

relating to the training of the disabled in radio and TV repairs, machine

sewing, wechanics. printing, carpentry and domestic science.

The exhibition will last from May 8 to May 14. It will open each

morning at 10:30 a.m. and will continue until 9:30 p.m. An attendance of

60,000 is expected, at least 20,000 of whom will be children from primary

schools coming on "conducted tours" of the site.

The exhibition is the second to be organised by the Vocational

Training Committee of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, designed

"to give members of the general public a better appreciation of the aims

and objects of vocational training."

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