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Friday, October 27, 1972

APPEAL TO EMPLOYERS TO CONSIDER ENGAGING DISABLED

Employers in Hong Kong were today urged to take on the disabled

as members of their staff.

The appeal came from Mrs. John Marden, the wife of a leading

Hong Kong businessman during the second open day of the Social Welfare

Department's World Rehabilitation Fund Day Centre in Kwun Tong,

She said the economic independence of the disabled was "a very

necessary contribution to the whole process of rehabilitation," and there

could never be a surfeit of employers who were socially responsible."

Mrs Marden called for a greater realisation in Hong Kong of the

need to see that "social rehabilitation went hand in hand with economic

rehabilitation," because it was not enough merely to find work for the

handicapped, and then ignore them.

During the ceremony, Mrs. Marden presented certificates of merit

to 11 industrial establishments and one government department as tokens of

appreciation for their continuous efforts in engaging the disabled following

training at the Centre.

The 12 were "Carter Semiconductor Ltd., Leung Fat Garment Factory,

Universal Knitting Company; Tung Mee Knitting Factory, Man Fung Knitting

Factory, Florist Design Corp. Ltd., Crocodile Garments Ltd., the Royal

Hong Kong Police Force, Fairchild Semiconductor (HK) Ltd., Lever Shirt

Garment Weaving B and D Factory Ltd., Swiss Plating Corp. Ltd., and Texwood

(Jeans) Garment Factory.

/The Deputy