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SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1990

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GIRLS' HOME RESIDENTS TAKE PART IN COMMUNITY SERVICE

YOUNG PEOPLE IN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS, LIKE OTHER YOUNG

SHARING THEIR LOVE AND PEOPLE, CAN PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART IN

CARE

WITH OTHERS.

SOCIAL

THIS IS WHAT RESIDENTS OF THE MA TAU WAI

WELFARE DEPARTMENT HAVE BEEN TRYING TO PARTICIPATING IN COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES.

GIRLS' HOME

OF THE

ACHIEVE

BY

"I FEEL HAPPY BECAUSE I KNOW I HAVE HELPED OTHER PEOPLE, OF THE GIRLS SAID ON HER TRIP BACK TO THE GIRLS' HOME AFTER VISITING CENTRE FOR MENTALLY THE PO LEUNG KUK KWAI SHING CHILDREN'S TRAINING HANDICAPPED CHILDREN.

"I

ONE

"WHEN I FIRST SAW THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED

CHILDREN

THERE,

I

WAS A BIT NERVOUS.

"BUT LATER I FOUND THAT THEY ARE FRIENDLY, JUST LIKE AND I BEGAN то SOCIAL WORKERS IN OUR HOME HAVE TOLD US, CHILDREN.”

THESE

ANOTHER GIRL SAID: "AFTER VISITING THAT THERE ARE MANY UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE IN THE SHOULD BE SATISFIED WITH WHAT I HAVE.

WHAT THE LIKE THE

CHILDREN, I LEARNT WORLD. SO I THINK

I

MYSELF:

WHEN

I

+

"I FEEL SORRY FOR THE CHILDREN, AND I SAID TO LEAVE THE GIRLS' HOME, I CAN GO THERE AND OFFER MY HELP.

COMMENTING ON THE RESIDENTS' FEELINGS, THE SUPERINTENDENT OF WAS PLEASED THAT THE MA TAU WAI GIRLS' HOME, MRS ANNA MAK, SAID SHE THE GIRLS HAD GAINED SOMETHING POSITIVE FROM THE VISIT.

"ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE TO INVOLVE THE GIRLS IN COMMUNITY

то ACTIVITIES SERVICE

THEM REBUILD THEIR CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM," SHE SAID.

HELP

EXPERIENCE "IT IS HOPED THAT FROM THE

'GIVERS' THEY WILL LEARN THAT THEY COULD BE

OF COMMUNITY SERVICE, TO THE COMMUNITY, AND PEOPLE WHO ARE

HAVE THE ABILITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WELL-BEING LESS FORTUNATE.

中中

OF

HELD

SERVICE PROJECTS WITH IN JULY LAST

GROUP

MRS MAK NOTED THAT MEMBERS OF THE HOME'S SOCIAL HAD RECENTLY COMPLETED THREE SPECIAL COMMUNITY SERVICE SUBSIDIES FROM FUNDS RAISED AT A CHARITY YEAR.

BAZAAR

"

RESPONSE

TO THE 10TH

'THE BAZAAR WAS SPECIALLY ORGANISED IN ANNIVERSARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE CHILD.

SALE THREE COMMUNITY

"OVER 1,200 HANDICRAFTS MADE BY THE RESIDENTS WERE PUT ON

PROCEEDS WAS ALLOCATED FOR THE AND PART OF THE SERVICE PROJECTS FOR CHILDREN.'

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