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the expansion of the school building programme has enabled more and more children to go to school and the undernourishment observed in many of them posed a problem, for many were unable to cope with a full session's study.
The programme to provide community and social centres made further progress. Early in the year the department established a social centre on the ground floor of a resettlement block at the Kwun Tong resettlement estate, where a new community centre will be completed next year. Meanwhile the first two community centres at Wong Tai Sin and Tsuen Wan continued to show that they were stimulating the development of a community spirit through the host of welfare services and group activities which they provide.
Social work generally has begun to take on a more mature look and the fact that the basic problem of adequate training is now being tackled augurs well for the future, for without a compre- hensive training programme there can be no sound basis for the rapid and effective advance so essential to meet the social needs of Hong Kong.
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