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YOUTH GROUPS' NEW HEADQUARTERS

Hon. Architect: G. D. Su, B. Sc. (Arch.)

Hong Kong has reason to be proud the general cause of brightening the of the public spiritedness and genero lives of the Colony's needy youth. sity which made possible the splendid Leaders in the clubs conducted by or new headquarters and training centre affiliated to the Association now have of the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Associa- a convenient place where they can tion, in Lockhart Road, Wanchai. frame and run their own individual As headquarters for an organisation programmes, and meet together to dedicated to meeting the needs of the discuss problems and organise new Colony's underprivileged children, the activities. In a word, the Association's imposing five-storey building can have occupation of the new headquarters few equals of its kind in this part of has opened up prospects of yet greater the world.

development of its work.

While spaciousness is a feature of the building, it is, too, essentially

The project which was a Rotary Club undertaking

also received functional.

excellent support from the Gen Its facilities are available to all era! Chinese Charities Fund Com. members, numbering about 9,000, of mittee, the Asia Foundation, the 187 clubs affiliated to the Boys' other donors, while the land and Girls' Clubs Association, and the made available by the Hong Kong use made of the premises in recent months has left no doubt as to the important role they are already ful filling.

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They have enabled unification of the clubs' widely diverse activities in

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mainly to offices, a library, and an audio visual aid activities room, and to separate club rooms for boys and girls on either wing.

A section for making noodles is also housed on this floor A complete unit for making and drying noodles was presented to the Association by the

Catholic Relief Services, who also

gave a supply of raw materials.

The output of this section averages 900 lbs a day, from which distributions are made to boys and girls of the are made Association and their families, and to other needy cases through various welfare agencies.

and was The second floor has three lecture rooms, a hobbies centre for boys, a reading room, and a girls' handicraft centre, as well as a domestic science

room.

The building is of reinforced cement concrete and the frame rests on precast concrete piles.

A theatre is situated on the third The ground floor is being used for floor. The fourth floor is used solely parking. The first floor is given over for youth leaders' activities.

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