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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1988

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APART FROM ACTUAL PLACEMENT WORK, DR FANG NOTED, ALSO ATTACHED MUCH IMPORTANCE TO A SYSTEMATIC PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES WHICH WERE AIMED AT URGING EMPLOYERS TO GIVE A FAIR CHANCE AND TO REMOVE POSSIBLE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE WORKING ABILITY OF DISABLED PERSONS.

THE

OF

DIVISION PUBLICITY

THE DISABLED THEY MIGHT HAVE

THREE

MENTIONING:

PROMOTIONAL

ACTIVITIES

WERE

PARTICULARLY

WORTH

TO VARIOUS

* FIRST, STAFF OF THE DIVISION PAID REGULAR VISITS

ESTABLISHMENTS TO EXPLAIN TO EMPLOYERS THAT DISABLED PERSONS ABLE-BODIED IN PERFORMING A WERE EQUALLY COMPETENT AS THE WIDE RANGE OF JOBS.

* SECONDLY, PRESENTATIONS OF SOUVENIRS WERE

GIVE RECOGNITION TO EMPLOYERS WHO HAD TAKEN NUMBER OF DISABLED PERSONS OR HAD ACCOMMODATE THEIR EMPLOYMENT.

HELD

ON MADE SPECIAL

ANNUALLY TO THE LARGEST ΤΟ EFFORTS

ORGANISED ΤΟ PROMOTE THE

* THIRDLY, ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS WERE

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES OF THE DISABLED.

LABOUR,

SPECIAL

ASPECTS: THE

EARLIER, IN HIS WELCOMING SPEECH, THE COMMISSIONER FOR MR TONY HAMMOND, SAID THE EXHIBITION INCORPORATED THREE SELECTIVE

GOVERNMENT, PLACEMENT SERVICE PROVIDED BY THE TECHNICAL AIDS WHICH ENHANCED THE EMPLOYABILITY OF THE THE BENEFITS OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR THE DISABLED.

ITS OBJECTIVE WAS TO PROMOTE PUBLIC AWARENESS EMPLOYERS ABILITIES OF DISABLED PERSONS AND TO URGE

WITH INTO

THE WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITIES.

BY

PROVIDING

THEM

"EMPLOYERS WHO HAVE HAD THE EXPERIENCE

DISABLED, AND

OF THE WORKING TO ABSORB THEM MORE

EMPLOYMENT

OF EMPLOYING DISABLED

PERSONS WILL AGREE WITH ME, I AM SURE, THAT THE DISABLED ARE DILIGENT, LOYAL AND STABLE WORKERS, MR HAMMOND SAID,

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"AT A TIME WHEN HONG KONG IS FACING A LABOUR CALL UPON EMPLOYERS NOT TO OVERLOOK THIS VALUABLE BUT SOURCE OF LABOUR AND URGE THEM TO RESPOND TO OUR RESOURCES, EMPLOY THE DISABLED'.

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SHORTAGE, MAY

LARGE UNTAPPED MESSAGE 'TAP HUMAN

I

PLAZA IN PM DAILY

THE EXHIBITION, WHICH IS BEING HELD AT THE NEW WORLD TSIM SHA TSUI, IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BETWEEN 10 AM AND 6.30 UNTIL DECEMBER 12.

VISITORS CAN SEE SOME OF THE SPECIAL TECHNICAL AIDS ON DISPLAY

PERSONS VOCATIONAL TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO DISABLED AND THE VARIETY OF JOBS TAKEN UP BY THEM IN VARIOUS SECTORS,

THE

DISABLED

TRAINEES,

GAME

BY

THERE ARE ALSO LIVE WORK DEMONSTRATIONS BY SIMULATED JOB-MATCHING BY COMPUTER AND A QUESTION-AND-ANSWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

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