families
22
up to a
prescribed
level.
allowances
Additional non
means-tested
are paid to the disabled and the
elderly. There is also a wide range of services including
old people's homes,
hostels for the no melesS
and
renabilitation services for the disabled,
including
the
provision ot employ ment
opportunities
in
sheltered
workshops.
45.
In
recent years there has been significant
improvement 111 facilities for culture and recreation in
Hong Kong. The territory now boasts a symphony orchestra
and ballet company of international standing, both
subvented from public funds. An Academy for Performing
Arts provides training in drama, music and dance and
indigenous performing groups are supported by the Municipal
Councils. There is a network of high quality performing
Venues in all the main centres of population. When the
biggest of these, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, opens at
the end of this year the territory will have more than
21,000 seats available in its theatres and concert halls,
more than five times as many as in 1978.
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