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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1978

PIONEERS OF YOUTH MOVEMENT AWARDED BADGES

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SIX PIONEER TEAMS OF THE COMMUNITY YOUTH CLUB GROUPS (C.Y.C.) TODAY RECEIVED SPECIAL GOLDEN BADGES AT THE C.Y.C. INAUGURATION CEREMONY HELD IN THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES' THEATRE AT BEACONSFIELD HOUSE.

THE RECIPIENTS WERE FROM THE HAPPY VALLEY AND CANAL ROAD DISTRICT KAI-FONG ASSOCIATION SCHOOL, THE ST. JOAN OF ARC SCHOOL (PRIMARY SECTION), THE TAI PO OLD MARKET PUBLIC SCHOOL, THE RAIMONDI COLLEGE, AND THE KOWLOON LOK SIN TONG YAU TONG BAY PRIMARY A.M, AND P.M. SCHOOL.

PRESENTING THE BADGES, THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, MR. KENNETH TOPLEY, SAID THE C.Y.C. MOVEMENT WAS CONCERNED WITH THE WHOLE FIELD OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.

+ITS AIM IS TO FIND OUT AS MUCH ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY AS POSSIBLE AND THEN TRY TO TAKE AN ACTIVE PART IN IMPROVING SOME PART OF COMMUNITY LIFE.

+ITS REPRESENTS A BALANCE OF PURE EDUCATION, STUDYING THE (COMMUNITY) SYSTEM, FINDING OUT WHAT IT IS ABOUT, AND HOW ITS WORKS, AND OF PRACTICAL INVOLVEMENT, GETTING OUT HANDS DULY TRYING TO PUT SOMETHING RIGHT,+ MR. TOPLEY SAID.

MR. NG YIN NAM, DISTRICT GOVERNOR OF LIONS INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 303 WHICH HAD DONATED $250,000 TO THE MOVEMENT, STRESSED THE CLUB'S INTEREST IN ASSISTING +ANY UNDERTAKING THAT HAS AS ITS OBJECTIVE, THE UPBRINGING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE JUVENILES IN OUR COMMUNITY TO FIT THEM TO BE RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS OF THE FUTURE.+

ALSO SPEAKING AT THE FUNCTION, MR. ARTHUR BROWN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION (CHIEF INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS), TRACED THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOVEMENT.

HE SAID C.Y.C. GROUPS WERE ORIGINALLY FORMED IN 1974 AS PART OF THE DRIVE TO +KEEP HONG KONG CLEAN IN THE FORM OF SCHOOL CLUBS. FOLLOWING THE INTEREST SHOWN BY PUPILS, THE IDEA OF EXPANDING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE C.Y.C. GROUPS TO FORM A MULTI- INTEREST CIVIC CONSCIOUS BAND OF CONCERNED YOUNG CITIZENS TOOK ROOT.

THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SAID THE RESPONSE OF SCHOOLS

SINCE LAST NOVEMBER WAS MOST ENCOURAGING.

+BY THE END OF JANUARY, WE HAVE RECEIVED APPLICATIONS FROM 266 PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS WITH A TOTAL NUMBER OF 1,225 GROUPS AND 13,500 MEMBERS. MR. BROWN SAID.

+THE PRESENT COMMUNITY CLUB MOVEMENT WAS FORMED IN THE AUTUMN AND AIMS TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UPPER PRIMARY AND LOWER SECONDARY CLASSES TO TAKE PART IN A WIDE RANGE OF EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AS WELL AS IN ACTUALLY DOING WORK FOR THE COMMUNITY, HE ADDED.

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