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Wednesday, March 14, 1973

TOUR OF VOLUNTARY SOCIAL WELFARE ESTABLISHMENTS

By Director's Wife

Mrs. Li Fook-kow, wife of the Director of Social Welfare, will

be making the third of a series of weekly visits to voluntary social

welfare establishments tomorrow (Thursday).

At 10.30 a.m. she will tour the Tokwawan Workshop for the

Blind operated by the Hong Kong Society for the Blind at No. 19 Mok

Cheong Street, Tokwawan, Kowloon.

Mrs. Li will be met on arrival by the Rev. K.L. Stumpf, chairman

of the Society, and Mrs. Ina Chan, the Workshop Superintendent.

The workshop provides on the job training and sheltered employment

for 160 blind workers and 40 who are partially sighted.

At 11.20 a.m. Mrs. Li will be visiting the Hong Kong School

for the Deaf, where she will be met by the Principal, Miss S.W. Bow.

The school is situated at Hammer Hill Road, Diamond Hill, Kowloon.

It trains deaf children to speak and lip-read Cantonese. There are 208

students at the school, which is the only one of its kind in Hong Kong.

Note to Editors:

You are invited to send a reporter and photographer

to cover Mrs. Li's visits tomorrow.

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