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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1988

MORE CENTRES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN PIPELINE

CENTRES SERVING OVER 1988-89, THE DIRECTOR

AND YOUTH 19 CHILDREN AN ADDITIONAL 20,000 MORE MEMBERS WILL COME INTO SERVICE IN

OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MRS ELIZABETH WONG, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).

THE OPENING

CEREMONY

OF THE HONG KONG YWCA MUN, MRS WONG NOTED SOME 210,000 ON

AT SPEAKING BUTTERFLY ESTATE SOCIAL SERVICE CENTRE IN TUEN THAT THERE WERE NOW 185 CHILDREN AND YOUTH CENTRES WITH

MORE THAN MEMBERS AND THAT THE GOVERNMENT SPENT THIS SERVICE IN 1987-88.

"CHILDREN AND YOUTH CENTRES ARE SET UP THE RATIO OF ONE CENTRE PER 20,000 POPULATION,

MILLION $101.6

ON A DISTRICT BASIS AT

MRS WONG SAID.

CHILDREN

"THEIR AIM IS TO PROVIDE A WIDE RANGE OF SERVICES FOR

THEIR DEMANDS AND CATER AND YOUTHS AGED BETWEEN SIX AND 24 TO MEET FOR THEIR INTERESTS; TO GROOM THEIR LEADERSHIP QUALITIES; AS

TOWARDS RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND THEIR THEIR FAMILIES AND THE COMMUNITY IN THEIR GROWING UP.

"THROUGH PARTICIPATING AND PLANNING

VARIOUS

WELL AS THEMSELVES,

ACTIVITIES,

THEY AND WILL AND PERSONAL LAW-ABIDING AND CIVIC-MINDED

TIME MORE MEANINGFULLY WILL LEARN TO SPEND THEIR LEISURE

AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT ACHIEVE A BALANCED SOCIAL INTEGRITY SO THAT THEY WILL GROW UP AS CITIZENS," SHE SAID.

THESE CENTRES FOLLOWING A REVIEW OF THE PLANNING STANDARD FOR

RECENTLY BY THE DEPARTMENT, THE SOCIAL WELFARE ADVISORY COMMITTEE HAD

MORE FLEXIBLE DISCUSSED AND ENDORSED THE RECOMMENDATION TO ADOPT A STANDARD ACCORDING TO POPULATION DISTRIBUTION, SHE ADDED.

MRS WONG POINTED OUT THAT THERE WERE NOW 13 YOUTH TUEN MUN AND AN ADDITIONAL 13 CHILDREN'S CENTRES IN CENTRES AND SEVEN CHILDREN'S CENTRES WOULD BE SET UP IN IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS TO MEET POPULATION GROWTH.

DEMAND

CENTRES AND

EIGHT YOUTH THE DISTRICT

FROM THE TOWN WOULD BB IN THE

NOTING THAT SOME HOUSING ESTATES WERE FAR AWAY

FOR YOUTH FACILITIES PROPER, SHE SAID THAT THEIR TAKEN CARE OF WHEN THE FLEXIBLE PLANNING STANDARD WAS ADOPTED FUTURE.

CENTRE WAS SHE NOTED THAT THE BUTTERFLY ESTATE SOCIAL SERVICE

HONG KONG YWCA AND THE THIRTEENTH CHILDREN AND YOUTH CENTRE OF THE

OPERATION THAT ITS MEMBERSHIP HAD INCREASED TO 1,800 SINCE IT STARTED LAST JANUARY.

SERVICE GROUPS, READING AND INTEREST A9 ITS SERVICES SUCH

SUPPORTED BY SERVICE WERE WIDELY ROOMS, TRAINING COURSES AND FAMILY RESIDENTS THERE.

MRS WONG COMMENDED THE ASSOCIATION SOCIAL SERVICES IN HONG KONG.

FOR

ITS CONTRIBUTIONS

TO

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