30. In July, 1950 the Conference prepared a memorandum on the social problems connected with the youth of the Colony in general and made certain recommendations to Government. This document, with Government's reply was by permission released to the press, and provided a very useful commentary on the problems of youth in Hong Kong, and on Government policy regarding these problems.
31. In June, 1952 the Silvermine Bay Holiday Camp was opened the first of its kind in Hong Kong. The Camp build- ing was a gift from the Rotary Club of Hong Kong to the Standing Conference of Youth Organizations, which appointed from its member-organizations a Management Committee to run the Camp.
The Camp received from Government a subvention to cover part of the running expenses, the actual cost of sending a child to camp being $12.60 per week. Sponsors of children were mainly drawn from member-organizations of the Standing Conference of Youth Organizations. The Silvermine Bay Camp has proved an unqualified success as a holiday resort for some of the Colony's poorest children, who live in very crowded (and sometimes sordid) surroundings. Whilst in camp the children, besides having a thoroughly good time, also learn to cultivate a sense of fellowship and co-operation with one another.
CHAPTER VII
FAMILY WELFARE
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32. Family Welfare Work was of two main kinds: aid to present family disintegration through economic disaster, and (ii) social casework dealing with internal maladjustments. Individual charitable organizations, amongst which was the comparatively heavily subsidized Hong Kong Family Welfare Society, set out to alleviate economic distress, and tried to find some socially constructive solution to the problem, rather than to be content with handling out alms. Somewhat similar work was being done at the Social Welfare Office Welfare Centres. (For which, see Chapter X).
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