Tong in resettlement estate ground floor accommodation which serves the dual purposes of residence and sheltered work. Alterations were carried out, specially adapted to the needs of wheel-chair patients by way of special working and bathing facilities.
66 The Aberdeen Rehabilitation Centre is a departmental institution which has a practical capacity of about five hundred although it could take more in certain circumstances. It works in co-operation with the Medical Rehabilitation Centre of the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilita- tion and with the Surgical Appliance Centre of the Medical and Health Department. In March it opened two new vocational training classes, in domestic service and electrical appliance repair. The centre partici- pated in the agricultural show held in Sek Kong in December, when products from the horticultural class were displayed and publicity to 'Hire the Handicapped" was propagated. Some statistics are given in Appendix 19.
67 Another interdepartmental committee examined a proposal originating from the Medical & Health Department that disabled people be issued with a badge or other identification which would assist them to be given a seat on a bus or tram once they have boarded. This would also facilitate their attendance at clinics for treatment or at training centres. The scheme was granted $10,000 from the Lotteries Fund to cover its initial expenses.
68 The need for technical training to help to solve the manpower problems of an exploding country such as Hong Kong is recognized by both voluntary and official agencies. In particular vocational training has to be stepped up to meet the unsettling demands of a modern society. This holds especially true for the disabled. The Kwun Tong Vocational Training Centre of the Lutheran World Service, which serves welfare clients from low income families, has among its five hundred trainees twenty who are physically impaired or deaf. A training course for workers in vocational rehabilitation was organized in December by Mr H. A. JONES, an International Labour Office Regional Adviser. There were twenty-two participants from various government departments and voluntary organizations in this field, together with thirty observers.
69 A United States Congressman, Mr Otto E. PASSMAN, laid the foundation stone of the Kennedy Memorial Spastic Children's Centre on 26 November. The foundation stone for an extension of the Sandy Bay Convalescent Home, which provides facilities for treatment and con- valescent care of disabled children, was laid on the same occasion. The Day Centre for the Disabled, to be built with a grant from the World
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