organized a three-month health education campaign. Film shows and competitions of various kinds were arranged and the climax of the campaign was a three-day exhibition of the items entered in the com- petitions. A total of 21,000 persons visited the exhibition.
82. A donation of about HK$1,270,000 from the United Kingdom World Refugee Year Committee was being devoted to building a second community centre at the rapidly growing industrial town of Tsuen Wan and by the close of the year the centre was well on its way to completion. The purpose here is both to help industrial workers who have newly arrived in the town to settle down, to find recreation and friendship and to feel that they have a stake in the place, and also to provide a meeting place between these workers, many of them from Shanghai or Chiu Chow, and the Cantonese villagers who are the traditional inhabitants of the area. A small social centre, housing a departmental boys' and girls' club and a small library, has already been operating in anticipation of the opening of the community centre.
83. A social centre, on a smaller scale, was started in January at the old Tsan Yuk Hospital building, in the heart of one of the most congested old slum areas of Victoria. Clubs and training programmes for various classes of physically handicapped persons have already been started there and the Hong Kong Family Welfare Society has estab- lished a branch at the centre.
84. The main purpose of these community and social centres is to encourage people living in the neighbourhood to help themselves and to develop a sense of belonging to the local community. As will be seen, each of these centres is in a quite different setting, with its own flavour and its own special needs and problems. The staffing of the community centres has presented great difficulty; experienced group workers had to be found, sometimes at the cost of club work; and the long hours of operation ranging from 7.30 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. or later demand 10 to 20 departmental officers in all, apart from all those working for voluntary agencies in the centre.
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OFFICIAL AND VOLUNTARY CO-ORDINATION
85. The social needs of the three million people of Hong Kong, about a million of whom have entered the Colony from China in the last decade, are so vast and so varied in comparison with the resources
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