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Tuesday, August 22, 1972
WORK FOR THE DISABLED
Twenty-eight disabled were found jobs by the Social Welfare
Department's Liaison and Placement Unit during July
despite keen
competition for temporary factory places by students on summer vacation.
Of the total, 12 took up their occupations following successful
interviews. The remaining 16 were also successful, but could not begin work
immediately because of the late arrival of machinery on order.
They have been assured by the management that they will start as
soon as the equipment has been installed.
Of the 12 already working, six are crippled. They have taken up jobs
as messengers, inspectors, watchmen, and apprentice repairmen.
A young blind man is now a casual worker on a piece-rate basis, and
three deaf men are respectively a printing worker, a packer, and a member of
an assembly staff.
Two men who have recovered from tuberculosis are now a clerk and
a watchman,
Mr. Paul Leung, Officer in charge of the Unit, says negotiations
are now under way with a garment factory in Kwun Tong to employ a number of
post-polio industrial sewing machine trainees as the result of a special
bus service to operate from their homes to the factory and back.
"If technical problems can be overcome, "the comments, "these trainees
using calipers will really be standing on their own feet."
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