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Tuesday, June 13, 1972

TRAINING COURSE FOR VOLUNTEERS

SWD Project In Wong Tai Sin To Improve Understanding

The Social Welfare Department's Wong Tai Sin Community Centre will

conduct a training course for young volunteers to help them for improved

leadership in connection with this year's summer programme for more than a

million youngsters.

The course proper will take place at the Centre between July 11 and

13, with a practice and demonstration weekend camp on July 16, but applications

must be filled and returned to Room 313A, Wong Tai Sin Community Centre, before

June 23. There will be a charge of $6 an applicant.

In the latter part of June, volunteers who have been accepted for the

course will be invited to participate in a series of recreational activities

designed to familiarise them with leadership techniques.

The course proper in July will emphasise youth-work theories and the

socio-psychology inherent in social work. The idea is to make clear to the

volunteers that leadership involves more than merely a willingness to lead.

They will learn that in addition to enthusiasm, they need an insight

into the workings of human relationships, so as to extract the best, the most

enjoyable, and the most wholesome from the interaction of individuals within

groups.

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