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Tuesday, March 26, 1974

TOURS OF REHABILITATION CENTRES

The Social Welfare Department is one of the many organizations,

welfare agencies and government departments that are participating in

Rehabilitation Week currently being held in Hong Kong to enable the

public to obtain a better understanding of disabled people and what is

being done for them.

As such, three of its centres providing services for the handicapped

are among

those to which conducted tours have been arranged, mainly for

students, and anyone else interested in seeing the various types of

rehabilitation services being provided in Hong Kong for the disabled of

the community.

The centres are the Settlement for the Severely Disabled and the

World Rehabilitation Fund Day Centre, both in Kwun Tong, and the Aberdeen

Rehabilitation Centre on Hong Kong Island. The tours to the first two

contres will take place on Thursday (March 28) while the one to the third

contre will be on Friday (March 29).

The work that these centres are doing can also be seen in a

photographic display in the exhibition now on at the City Hall Exhibition

Different types of products made by the handicapped at the centres

are also on show to illustrate that handicapped people too, when given a

chance, can be useful like anybody else.

Hall.

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