XN000022-1972-05-30 — Page 15

15

Tuesday, May 30, 1972

The Hong Kong Council of Social Service will receive $200,000 of

government allocation, and the Urban Services Department will get $150,000.

An amount of $131,000 will be given to the Education Department of which

$26,000 are to be used exclusively on the Learn-to-Swim Campaign.

The Social Welfare Department will receive $550,000 of which $150,000

will be spent on programmes directly organised by the department while the

will be equally divided between district groups and subvented youth

agencies.

The remaining $400,000 are to be spent on the temporary employment

scheme under which university and post-secondary school students are employed

by government during the summer holidays.

The government allocation represents direct expenditure on the summer

youth programme and does not include any staff and administration costs or

overall subvention to voluntary agencies.

Of the Jockey Club grants, about $420,000 will be given to the member

agencies of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, $327,000 to schools

through the Education Department, $185,000 to the Social Welfare Department

for district activities and $33,000 to the Armed Forces for the running of

youth leadership camps.

An extra sum of $8,000 has been made available to the Association of

Volunteers for service for the employment of temporary clerical staff and

the purchase of stationery.

The Association is responsible for this year's overall co-ordination

of recruiting volunteers with the hope that more young people will join the

programme as helpers or leaders.

/16