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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1988

"THERE IS A RANGE OF

13

SERVICES,

PUBLIC INCLUDING

ASSISTANCE, RENT ALLOWANCE AND COMPASSIONATE

OLD AGE OR DISABILITY ALLOWANCES, REHOUSING, TO HELP THESE STREET SLEEPERS RETURN TO A NORMAL LIFE.

"IN ADDITION, AN URBAN HOSTEL, WHICH IS A

THOSE

STREET SLEEPERS

PILOT PROJECT, WHO ARE OLD OR

HAS HAVE

BEEN SET UP TO SERVE SPECIAL NEEDS," HE ADDED.

MR CHUI COMMENDED THE

AND VOLUNTEERS

PARTICIPATING

FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND SERVICES FOR THESE PEOPLE IN NEED.

THE TRAINING WORKSHOP

REPRESENTATIVES

WAS ORGANISED FROM THE SOCIAL

WORKING

BY A

WELFARE

AGENCIES

GROUP

DEPARTMENT, COMPRISING

THE STREET HELPING HAND, THE SALVATION ARMY, THE ST STEPHEN SOCIETY,

HONG KONG CHRISTIAN SLEEPERS' ACTION COMMITTEE, FUK LAM CHURCH, THE CONCERN FOR THE HOMELESS ASSOCIATION, THE STREET SLEEPERS SOCIETY THE MISSIONARY OF CHARITIES.

AND

AND

THE WORKSHOP, INCLUDING TALKS, EXPERIENCE-SHARING SEMINARS

ENHANCING VOLUNTEERS' UNDERSTANDING GROUP DISCUSSIONS, WAS AIMED AT

TO THE AND TO

THEM INTRODUCE SLEEPING STREET OF THE PROBLEM OF

SO SLEEPERS

THAT THEY CAN BETTER TECHNIQUES IN CONTACTING STREET ASSIST THE RELEVANT AGENCIES IN RENDERING SERVICES.

SHA TIN FIGHT AGAINST JUVENILE CRIME ACHIEVES RESULTS

*

THE FIGHT AGAINST

RESULTS THROUGH THE CO-ORDINATED

CRIME EFFORTS AND LOCAL ORGANISATIONS, ACCORDING TO SHA COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, MR CHAN SZE-BUN.

JUVENILE

SHA

IN

ΤΙΝ HAS ACHIEVED OF GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS ΤΙΝ DISTRICT

FIGHT CRIME

ACTIVITIES ORGANISED BY THE COMMITTEE IN THE PAST

ATTENDED

RALLY

IN

AUGUST

FEW MONTHS, BY SOME 700 HAD

SUCH AS THE ANTI-SHOPTHEFT YOUNGSTERS AND THE ANTI-TRIAD PUBLICITY VARIETY SHOW IN SEPTEMBER REFLECTED POSITIVELY IN REAL TERMS, MR CHAN SAID.

OF SHA TIN'S

"TAKE THE FIGURES FOR SHOPTHEFT, THE WORST AREA JUVENILE CRIME," HE ADDED.

IN 1987,

ALTOGETHER

504

YOUNG

YEARS OLD WERE ARRESTED.

ARREST WERE 317; THE

RESPECTIVELY 27, 24 AND 15.

IN THE FIRST HALF FIGURES

JULY, FOR

EIGHT AND 17 PEOPLE BETWEEN

OF

1988, THE NUMBERS

AND AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OF WERE

/FOR THE