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REACHING OUT TO ESTATE RESIDENTS
Wednesday, August 8, 1973
One feature of this year's summer activities organised by the Tai
Hang Tung Community Centre is its "reaching-out programmes" aimed at providing
various types of services for people in the estate.
"The concept behind these programmes, as the name suggests, is to
reach out to those who live in the estate," said Misa Lilian Wong, Warden
of the Tai Hang Tung Community Centre, one of the five which the Social
Welfare Department operates.
"While the community centre serves a large part of the community,
the fact is that there are still some people who could benefit from the services
provided but are not doing so because these are unknown to them or for other
reasons. It is in this connection then that we have designed the reaching out
programmes to bring the services to these people," she said.
Miss Wong explained that youth volunteers from different parts of
Their involvement would include
Hong Kong would help in these programmes.
direct services to people living in the blocks and stimulating residents to
help their neighbours.
She said the reaching out programmes will be carried out on an
experimental basis in some of the blocks in the estate to test the possibility
of adopting such an approach on a wider scale.
Two schemes to be conducted will be a mobile children service and a
block work service.
The mobile
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