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Friday, June 9, 1972

DOMESTIC CHORES FOR THE ELDERLY

"Truly Fine" Gesture By Group Of Young Volunteers

A group of 20 young volunteers from the Social Welfare Department's Wong Tai Sin Community Centre will this Sunday give up their holiday to do domestic chores for elderly residents of St Joseph's Home for the Aged. Acting on their own sponataneously, and without prompting, these

volunteers from the Centre's Cid People Service Team and Service Group will spend the day mopping floors in the Home, washing windows, preparing and serving lunch, and laundering personal linen.

Mr. Basil Leung, Warden, describes the gesture as "truly fine," representing not only an extension of recent community efforts to improve the general lot of the elderly, but also bringing it to the "individual

and very personal level."

"It is one thing to contribute money to a cause, and quite another to take up the broom and the laundry basket, and do these chores happily and willingly for a total stranger, with absolutely no thought of financial

gain," he says.

At the end of the visit to the Home, the volunteers will distribute food parcels among the elderly donated by the Wong Tai Sin District Committee on Welfare Services for the Aged, and the Centre's Council of Members,

Note to Editors: You are invited to have the visit covered. It

begins at 11 a..

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