Summer Youth Programme to be launched
The Summer Youth Programme (SYP) Committee will provide more than 12,300 activities for young people in Hong Kong to enjoy a meaningful and entertaining summer holiday.
The Chairman of the Committee, Mr Norman Lo, announcing details of this year's SYP at a press conference today (Tuesday), estimated that there would be over 1.23 million young people taking part in the programme.
Since SYP started in 1969, this is its 26th Anniversary.
This year, the SYP Committee and the District Co-ordinating committees will co-operate with participating government departments and organisations to provide a greater variety of programmes to young participants.
Mr Lo said the theme of this year's SYP was "Share the fun, Serve the community". The SYP Committee had encouraged participating organisations to organise social services activities to help young people serve the community through joining recreational activities.
"In order to attract more youngsters to take part in planning and promoting summer youth activities as voluntary workers, the Committee will continue to provide scholarships to those volunteers who have made outstanding contributions to these activities." Mr Lo said.
In the past 10 years, over 250 outstanding volunteers have been awarded this scholarship.
Mr Lo said: "The total expenditure of this year's Summer Youth Programme is $37.5 million. As for the sources of funding, apart from a limited revenue from nominal fees charged for taking part in activities, the bulk of our funds comes from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, various government departments, district boards, and participating organisations."
To mark the opening of this year's programme, an opening ceremony cum variety show entitling "Swinging Summer" will be staged at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium on Saturday (July 1).
Some 3,500 participants will be invited to the opening ceremony which will be officiated by the acting Secretary for Home Affairs, Mrs Stella Hung.
End/Tuesday, June 27, 1995
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