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Youngsters exchange experience in volunteer work
Some 400 civic-minded youngsters will attend a two-day youth camp at the Po Leung Kuk Pak Tam Chung Holiday Camp in Sai Kung today (Saturday) to exchange their experience in volunteer work.
The youngsters are the winners selected among 2,700 contestants from 127 youth groups who have participated in the 1994/95 Opportunities for Youth Scheme.
"The scheme, launched by the Social Welfare Department since 1974, aims at offering funding support to youth groups to plan and implement community service projects which contribute to their personal and social development," a spokesman for the department said.
In 1994/95, funds amounting to $800,000 have been allocated to the youth groups to help launch their service projects, providing services for 76,000 needy persons in the community.
The Chairman of the Commission on Youth Mr Eric Li and member Mr Cheung Yin-tung will hold a panel discussion at 4 pm this (Saturday) afternoon to share their views with the young people on how to better serve the community.
The Secretary for Health and Welfare, Mrs Katherine Fok, will officiate at a ceremony at 11 am tomorrow (Sunday) to present prizes to the best projects.
Attention news editors:
You are invited to cover the prize-giving ceremony of the 1994/95 Opportunities for Youth Scheme to be held at 11 am tomorrow (Sunday) at the Po Leung Kuk Pak Tam Chung Holiday Camp in Sai Kung.
Transport will be provided. Those interested are requested to assemble at the Wong Tai Sin Community Centre, 104 Ching Tak Street (near the Wong Tai Sin MTR Station), at 9.30 am.
Information officers of the department will be on hand to assist,
End/Saturday, February 18, 1995
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