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Tuesday, February 26, 1974

COLONIAL SUCRETARY TO VISIT SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT

The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Denys Roberts, will be visiting the

Secial Welfare Department on Thursday (February 28) afternoon to see some

of the work that the Department is doing.

Accommunied by Mr. Kenneth Topley, the Director of Social Welfare,

Mr. Roberts will be visiting four centres which the Department operates in

Kowloon.

At the Centres he will be shown the varied type of work which the

Department undertakes in providing rehabilitation for disabled people, care

of abandoned children, supervision of juveniles and activities for the

community.

Hr. Roberts will first call at the World Rehabilitation Fund Day

Centre at 487, Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong. This is a three-storeyed non-

residential centro run by the Department's Rehabilitation Division.

Since it was opened in 1968, the Centre has been providing full time

vocational training courses for disabled adults and a pre-vocational training

course for the younger disabled. This latter course consists of both informal.

education and practical work,

There is also a sheltered work shop in the Centre for severely disabled

people who are unable to take jobs outside.

At present, the Centre accommodates about 300 people with disabilities

ranging from physical handicaps to mental retardation.

From there Mr. Roberts will travel to the Children's Reception Contro

run by the Family Services Division at Lung Fung Street, Chuk Yuen. It is

at this Centre that the Department takes care of children who are abandoned,

found wandering, or unwanted because they are illegitimate.

The Centre