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Wednesday, September 6, 1972

ADDITIONAL GRANTS FROM LOITERIES FUND

More than $370,000 has been allocated from the Lotteries Fund

to assist five voluntary agencies carrying out work in special education,

family planning, ambulance service and youth activities.

The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups obtained a grant of

$38,500 to purchase additional outdoor and sailing equipment for its

training camp at Tai Mong Tsai and its youth hostel on Lamma Island.

The facilities available at present are insufficient to cope

with the large number of young people using the camps.

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme has received a grant of

$21,700 to help meet the cost of expedition equipment and 70 composite

camping units to provide an adequate standard of training and assessment.

A total of $118,000 has been granted to the Ebenezer School

and Home for the Blind to meet the cost of renovating its gymnasium.

The original grant for the renovation was $96,000. But due

to an increase in building costs since the estimate last year, the Social

Welfare Advisory Committee has recommended a further, grant of $22,000.

Also as a result of increased prices, the St. John Ambulance

Association and Brigade has received a further grant of $31,500 to the

original grant of $130,500 to purchase three replacement ambulances.

The Family Planning Association has been granted $30,500 for the

purchase of an additional mini-bus to carry staff, visitors and stocks

to the outlying clinics in the New Territories.

At present the one mini-bus owned by the Association is inadequate

for carrying staff as the clinics are scattered over a wide area.

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