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SATURDAY, MARCH 5,

MARCH 5, 1988

ACTIVITY HE SAID THAT DAY

CENTRES OF THIS

KIND SERVED TO WERE UNABLE TO

PROVIDE SERVICES FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED ADULTS WHO BENEFIT FROM VOCATIONAL TRAINING OR FROM SHELTERED OR OPEN EMPLOYMENT.

HANDICAPPED PEOPLE WHO THE SERVICES AIMED TO ASSIST MENTALLY

TO POSSIBLE,

то HELP THEM LIVE AT HOME TO LEAD AS NORMAL LIVES AS

DISABILITY, BECOME MORE USEFUL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY DESPITE THEIR

ALSO ΤΟ TO KNOW HOW TO LIVE A MORE MEANINGFUL AND ENJOYABLE LIFE AND BE LESS OF A BURDEN TO THEIR FAMILIES.

THEN

IN

LIVING MIND, NEW

DAILY MEMBERS' ARE FIRST ASSESSED AND BEHAVIOUR PROGRAMMES

FOR ARE

EACH

DESIGNED

"WITH THESE OBJECTIVES SKILLS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL INDIVIDUALISED EDUCATIONAL TRAINEE ACCORDING TO HIS OR HER ABILITY." MR CHAMBERS SAID.

SKILLS IN THESE TRAINING PROGRAMMES COVERED A WIDE VARIETY OF

WELL AS

AND READING, WRITING DAILY LIVING, SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP AS CULTIVATING HOBBIES.

WERE ALSO PROVIDED ΤΟ

SIMPLE WORK AND OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING HELF TRAINEES ACQUIRK JOB SKILLS AND GOOD WORK HABITS.

NORTH DISTRICT ORGANISATION PRAISED FOR PROMOTING ARTS

AN

THAT

CULTURAL

ORGANISATION PROMOTING ART AND

PLAYING A VITAL ROLE IN THE DISTRICT LEVEL WAS DISTRICT OFFICER, MR MATTHEW

HAVE BEEN ACTIVITIES AT PRAISED TODAY (SATURDAY) BY THE NORTH CHEUNG.

CHINESE PAINTING, CALLIGRAPHY SPEAK LNG AT THE OPENING OF THE

ORGANISED BY THE NORTH DISTRICT AND PHOTOGRAPH EXHIBITION JOINTLY

AND THE REGIONAL COUNCIL, MR ARTS ADVANCEMENT ASSOCIATION (NDAAA)

INTEREST IN CHEUNG SAID THE NDAAA WAS ACTIVE IN FOSTERING RESIDENTS' VARIOUS FORMS OF ART.

SINCE ITS ESTABLISHMENT IN 1980,

DANCE,

THE ASSOCIATION

HAD SET Up HORTICULTURE,

CULTURE DRAMA, FIVE COMMITTEES ON MUSIC, OFFERING A WIDE RANGE OF TRAINING COURSES, HE ADDED.

AND

WORKS B2Y

TUTORS

AND

STUDENTS OF A

CHINESE

PAINTING

AND

NOW

NORTH DISTRICT

CALLIGRAPHY TRAINING CLASS ORGANISED BY THE CULTURE COMMITTEE ARE DISPLAYED AT THE EXHIBITION WILCH IS SPONSORED BY THE BOARD. ALSO ON BISPLAY ARE WORKS OF LOCAL ARTISTS.

MR

CHEUNG NOTED THAT

ACTIVITIES WAS ONLY PART OF

RESIDENTS' ACTIVE PARTICIPATION.

THE COMMUNITY

PROMOTION

OF ART AND BUILDING, WHICH

CULTURAL

DEPENDED ON

/HE SAID