2007/2008

Patrons and Council Members

Patron
The Chief Executive
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
The Honourable Donald Tsang, GBM

Vice-Patrons 
Mrs Marjorie Bray
Dr Bessie Chiang
Mr Stephen Fisher, JP
Mrs Helen Kwok
Professor Dennis S.C. Lam
Professor C.K. Poon, GBS, JP

Council Members 
Chairman
Mr Clive Oxley, OBE ED

Vice-Chairman
Mrs Rachel Cartland

Hon Treasurer
Mr Michael M.C. Choi

Hon Legal Adviser
Mr Peter K.S. Chan

Hon Medical Adviser
Dr Ho Chi Kin

Members
Mr Leo Barretto
Mr Cheung Chang
Mr Chong Chan Yau
Ms Ida Lam
Mr Lam Wai Pong
Mr Peter Sun
Mr Michael Szeto
Mrs Elaine Yue
Mrs Grace Chan, JP (up to 31/12/2007)
Ms Maureen Tam (from 1/1/2008)

 

Co-opted Member
Mr Lam Chung Yun

Auditors
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Committees

Finance & Administration Committee
Chairman
Mr Michael Choi

Members
Dr Vincent Kwan
Mr Lam Chung Yun
Mr Roger Ling

Ex-officio Members
Mr Clive Oxley, OBE ED
Mrs Grace Chan, JP (up to 31/12/2007)
Ms Maureen Tam (from 1/1/2008)

Rehabilitation Committee
Chairman
Ms Ida Lam

 

Members
Mrs Rachel Cartland
Mr Chan Siu Fai
Mr Tsang Kin Ping
Mr Wong Tak Ming
Ms Kitty Chung

Ex-officio Members
Mr Clive Oxley, OBE ED
Mrs Grace Chan, JP (up to 31/12/2007)
Ms Maureen Tam (from 1/1/2008)

Research & Development Committee
Chairman
Dr Ho Chi Kin

Members
Dr Martha Hui
Mr Joseph Kwan
Mr Joseph Cho

Ex-officio Members
Mr Clive Oxley, OBE ED
Mrs Grace Chan, JP (up to 31/12/2007)
Ms Maureen Tam (from 1/1/2008)

 

Residential Services Committee
Chairman
Mr Lam Wai Pong

Members
Mr Cheung Chang
Dr Ho Chi Kin
Ms Maria Lau
Ms Doreen Mui

Ex-officio Members
Mr Clive Oxley, OBE ED
Mrs Grace Chan, JP (up to 31/12/2007)
Ms Maureen Tam (from 1/1/2008)

Factory Management Committee
Chairman
Mr Michael Szeto

Members
Mr Colin Bosher
Ms Winnie Kong
Mr Peter Sun
Ms Eva Ngan
Mr Roger Ling
Ms Phoenix Cheung

Ex-officio Members
Mr Clive Oxley, OBE ED
Mrs Grace Chan, JP (up to 31/12/2007)
Ms Maureen Tam (from 1/1/2008)

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Chairman's Foreword
The year under review has been an exciting one.

In December 2007, Mrs Grace Chan, our Chief Executive, retired. At a celebration dinner, she received a well-merited send off from staff of the Society whose activities she had so carefully nurtured during her 20 years as Chief Executive. During that time the scope of work of the Society expanded significantly, and its standing in Hong Kong rose as did its standing internationally where the Society is regarded as one of the leaders in its field in Asia. The hosting of major international conferences, including for example the 12th International Mobility Conference in 2006, and seminars for leaders in the work for the visually impaired greatly increased the Society’s influence in the region. Within Hong Kong, a number of initiatives started by Mrs Chan included: massage training for the visually impaired, the Job Club, the Parents Resource Centre for Visually Impaired Children, the Barrier Free Access Technology Service and Consultancy Service, and etc. To cope with the increasing demands for the Society’s work, the staff increased in number during Mrs Chan’s time from 200+ to over 500. We wish Mrs Chan well on her well-earned retirement. On 1 January 2008, the Society’s Council appointed Ms Maureen Tam who joined the Society in 1990 first as Head of Rehabilitation Division, then Director of Residential Services, as the new Chief Executive.

During the past year, we have taken forward plans for the redevelopment of the Yuen Long Home for the Aged Blind and the Factory for the Blind. Funds are likely to become more difficult to raise in view of the deteriorating economic climate, but we remain hopeful that these redevelopment projects will remain on schedule. Other important achievements during the year included, in July 2007, the passing of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2007, which allows persons with ‘print disability’ to make copies of certain copyright works without infringing copyright. Many more braille books can now be printed and made available to the visually impaired.

Increased funding was also sought (and has recently been granted) from the Education Bureau for an increase in manpower and other resources to cope with the increasing demand for braille reading material. The Information Accessibility Centre won five Hong Kong ICT awards in 2007, including gold and silver awards for Best Public Service Application and Gold and Silver Awards for Best Digital Inclusion. The "KINGDOM Swimathon for Brightness 2007" was held in October 2007 to raise funds and to raise awareness of the needs and abilities of the visually impaired among the general public. A Music Inclusion Concert was held in December 2007 at the Baptist University to promote a harmonious relationship among friends and clients of different sectors of the community and to enable the disabled to demonstrate their artistic talents. All of these activities were in addition to the core work of the Society undertaken by our professional and committed staff.

Looking back over my time as the Society’s Chairman (1987-2008), I have been impressed by the growing appreciation of our services by the Hong Kong people. The number of clients we serve has increased during the time from about 8,000 to 70,000 annually. Our turnover was about HK$61 million in 2007/08 compared to about HK$12 million in 1986/87. The range of services we offer continues to increase because we respond quickly to the perceived needs of the visually impaired. The quality of our staff continues to improve as the Society is supportive of a wide range of training programmes. We have also seen and will continue to see major advances in the prevention and treatment of visual impairment.

The Society has weathered many storms in the past and is well-positioned to respond to changing circumstances. I have confidence in the future and particularly in our staff and their new leader Maureen Tam.

Let me now pay tribute to the very many volunteers without whose contribution, the Society could not properly function. These include: members of the Council and its committees, those who record books for our talking library service, those who help care for the blind, particularly during outings, those who visit the blind, and those who help us on Flag Days. Thank you all. Your contribution is deeply appreciated.

Finally my grateful thanks go to our many donors of both cash and kind, including: the Hong Kong Government, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the Community Chest, trusts funds, and all those who contribute to our fundingraisingappeals. Without your continued support, our work would have to besignificantly reduced.

 

Clive Oxley
Chairman

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Chief Executive's Report
The year of 2007/08 was an eventful and fruitful year for promotion of public awareness of the needs and potentials of the visually impaired.

A number of agency events had been organized to echo the theme. A public education campaign on barrier-free access had been launched during last summer at the Metro Plaza, on 9 and 10 June 2007 that attracted 3,600 visitors. Apart from staging exhibits for promoting eye care, we had simulating games and experiential games showing how barrier free access facilities are important to the visually impaired in their daily life. Also, we had fun games for the young kids who learn about blindness through the games.

To echo the World Sight Day, the "KINGDOM Swimathon for Brightness 2007 " was successfully held on 14 October 2007" at La Salle College Swimming Pool. This is the first ever swimming relay event in Hong Kong organized for the visually impaired and the sighted people. All funds raised were used on projects for the blind including replacement of the Sight Care No.2 (the Mobile Eye Treatment Centre) for the Guangdong Province, to provide free and low cost cataract surgery to the poor cataract patients in China, to improve the facilities of blind schools in China and to support projects on employment for the visually impaired in Hong Kong. There were 146 teams each with six members for the relay swimming contest. More than 1,000 swimmers participated in this event including over 50 visually impaired swimmers from Hong Kong and over 40 disabled athletes from Guangdong Province. In addition, more than 200 volunteers gave their helping hands at the event. A total of $1,668,685 was raised from this meaningful event.

Apart from soliciting support from 1,000 swimmers for the swimming relay, the breaking of the Guinness World Record by visually impaired and sighted swimmers brought the event to a climax. We were honoured to have Mr. Matthew Cheung Kinchung, GBS, JP, Secretary for Labour and Welfare, as the chief officiating guest at the Ceremony who witnessed the Guinness World Record breaking of relay swim of 69 feet (approx. 20.7 meters) each by 159 swimmers including the disabled, members from the Hong Kong Police Force, celebrities, guests and elite athlete swimmers in 40 minutes 21 seconds. The previous record was made by 137 Australians who did the same relay swim in one hour in 2005. Meanwhile, the first-ever Music Inclusion Concert was held on 27 December 2007 at the Academic Community Hall of the Hong Kong Baptist University. We were honored to have Mr Paul Tang Kwok - wai, JP, Permanent Secretary for Labour and Welfare of the Labour and Welfare Bureau, the Hon Dr. Leong Che-hung, GBS, JP, Chairman of the Elderly Commission and Mr Tang Yeebong, Chairperson of Equal Opportunities Commission, to be the chief officiating guests together with representatives from the different sectors of Information Technology, Education, Health, Law, Sports, Cultural Arts and Commercial Enterprises. A total of 7 visually impaired singers gave performances together with a physically handicapped singer from the Rehabilitation Experimental School of Guangdong Province, a blind music teacher from the Qingdao School for the Blind, the Hong Kong Police Choir, the Social Welfare Department Choir, a choir from the elderly group and local celebrities at the concert. The musical talents of the visually impaired performers received high regards and applause from the audience.

Entering into the information age, technological break through shave revolutionized communications and the spread of information. Today, voice is translated into data packets, sent over networks to remote locations, sometimes thousands of kilometres away, and, upon receipt, translated back to voice. On the other hand, with the development of new softwares and hardwares, visually impaired persons are able to make good use of computer for learning, work and browsing through the internet for information access.

To promote the use of information and communication technology among the visually impaired to facilitate their information access. Over the year, we have made enhancement to the Tele-digital Library service and developed new programmes such as Compu-light computer recycling project, Scan to Light, Netshare.hk, Ten-dollar Computer training and Computer Support Helpdesk service. The Tele-Digital Library service provides all our visually impaired readers an access to our Braille and Talking Book Library catalogue, our hotline service and news update on the internet through the telephone dialin service. To close the gap of digital divide among the less educated visually impaired, computer help desk and individual computer training at ten dollars each for half an hour session were welcomed by our members. Apart from these, the Compu-light enables recycle use of computers that the deprived and less well-off visually impaired persons are able to get second-hand computers for personal use. The Scan to Light project launched in joint collaboration with the Hewlett-Packard (Hong Kong) Ltd. that promoting volunteer service by sighted employees of commercial enterprises to teach visually impaired persons the use of scanners for reading bank statements, love letters and personal documents on their own and being given a HP scanner free of charge after the training, has been popular and benefitted a great number of the visually impaired. In addition, the setting up of an information sharing platform among all blind organizations and the individual blind members in Hong Kong via the website:www.netshare.hk, has been proved to be popular among the blind. It gave us great encouragement that we have won five award sat the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2007 organized by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, HKSAR Government and the IT Sector. The awards were a Gold Award of Best Public Service Application (Small Scale Project), a Silver Award of Best Public Service Application (Transformation), Gold and Silver Awards of Best Digital Inclusion (Service) and Certificate of Special Mention of BestDigital Inclusion (Service) Award for the four projects: Tele-Digital Library for the Visually Impaired, Computer Support Helpdesk, Netshare for the Blind and Scan to Light.

To continue our programme on prevention of blindness in the Mainland, we had conducted, in joint collaboration with the Asian Foundation for the Prevention of Blindness, the donation of Mobile Eye Treatment Centre No.15 supported by the Yuen Yuen Institute in Hong Kong to help the poor cataract patients in the Fujian Province in May 2007. On the other hand, there was the first national computer training course for blind school teachers held from 17 to 19 November, 2007 in Qingdao with support from the Lions Club of Happy Valley. A total of 54 participants coming from 26 cities and provinces of China attended the training. Each of them was given a free scanner preloaded with OCR software, webcam and USB for use by the visually impaired students in their blind schools.

All in all, we have made remarkable achievements in the year under review to improve public awareness about the rights, needs and abilities of the visually impaired. The encouraging number of public attendance in our Barrier-free Access Public Education Campaign in a number of shopping plazas, the active participation of people from different walks of life in our Kingdom Swimathon for Brightness 2007 and the Music Inclusion Concert were good evidence. To strive for equal participation of the visually impaired in the community will continue to be our service mission. On the other hand, employment is still a big problem to the visually impaired and being gainfully employed facilitates independent living and social integration of the blind in the society. In the years to come, it is the mission of the Hong Kong Society for the Blind to explore and open up new employment opportunities for the visually impaired in joint hands with other fellow blind organizations, international service clubs and most important of all, soliciting the staunch support from the commercial sector that the tripartite partnership can be successfully established for the wellbeing of the visually impaired.

 

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Rehabilitation Division
Caring
Your Care is our Impetus

Overview 
Since the Communication Department was restructured as Information Accessibility Centre (IAC) in November 2006, the Centre has pursued a new mission of closing digital-divide among the visually impaired which set a milestone in the development of the agency rehabilitation services. In the Rehabilitation Centre (RC), the new Community Support and Recreational Service continued to serve about 300 members since its launch in September 2006. An Orientation and Mobility Training Unit was also established in April 2007 to provide professional training to the needy. To meet with the service need of the visually impaired members, the Aids and Appliances Service, Information Technology (IT) Training and the Employment Service under the previous Career Support and Development Centre were reorganised under the administration of IAC in the year. Besides, the massage training was transferred to RC in December 2007 for better coordination in vocational training of the visually impaired. To meet with the increasing brailling needs of the blind integrators in mainstream schools, the Centralised Braille Production Centre submitted a service improvement proposal to Education Bureau in January 2008 to apply for additional resources support. In terms of agency volunteer development, it is pleased to report that a total of 1,782 individuals and 13 corporations have enrolled as volunteers and participated actively in the Society’s service delivery and agency activities since the establishment of the Volunteers Development Service in April 2006.

Assistance In Agency Functions 
The Division provided full support to organise the “KINGDOM Swimathon for Brightness 2007” fund-raising event which took place on 14 October 2007 in Hong Kong and 21 October 2007 in Guangzhou, China. Both IAC and RC had altogether recruited 27 swimming teams with about 30 visually impaired persons to take part in the event. The Division had recruited about 200 volunteers from 15 service groups, internal service departments and private corporations as helpers in the event. On the event day, RC won the Champion of Cheering Team competition. IAC won two first prizes in the Departmental Awards for Raising Most Funds and Recruiting Most Swimming Teams respectively. Besides, RC won the third prize of Departmental Award for Recruiting Most Swimming Teams.

After the event, we followed up with the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) on our survey findings and opinions collected from the visually impaired persons about the barrier-free access facilities improvement at LCSD’s recreational sports centres and swimming pools in Tuen Mun, Lei Cheng Uk and Shek Kip Mei districts, and their overall support to the visually impaired in their use of public sports amenities.

For the 07-08 Flag Day, the Division made an effort to recruit volunteers as flag sellers on 17 November 2007. Altogether, the Division had recruited 1,770 volunteers among the total number of 6,424 volunteers enrolled for the Flag Day. RC won the second prize of Departmental Award for Recruiting Most Volunteers with a record of 852 volunteers. CBPC won the third prize of the Award with 542 volunteers. Moreover, RC won the second prize of the Departmental Award for Raising Most Funds for the Flag Day.

The First-ever Music Inclusion Concert was held on 27 December 2007 at the Academic Community Hall of the Hong Kong Baptist University. To make the event a success, the Division had given full support to planning, organisation and implementation of the function. The three Centres, IAC, RC and CBPC had sourced outside donations to support the event including provision of free tickets to the visually impaired participants.

 

Rehabilitation Centre (RC) 
With thirty years in operation, RC has evolved from a Rehabilitation Centre providing basic independent living skills training to the newly blind to one providing comprehensive training with supportive services in terms of community education, social and recreational programmes, social work service and the recently established Community Support and Recreational Service to meet with the various needs of the visually Impaired. It is believed that the staff team are valuable assets to maintain, improve and develop our rehabilitation service. During the year, the staff team was mobilized to “think outside the box” for reforming their mind set in service development and delivery. To share our knowledge and experience, the Centre has produced its own publications: Cantonese Braille Textbook, Orientation and Mobility Training Manual (simplified and traditional Chinese versions) with ISBN registration in the year under review.

During the year, 163 trainees were enrolled to receive rehabilitative training at the two Centres in Kowloon and Tuen Mun. The training schedule was reviewed and rearranged to maximise the training hours that the instructors could provide for the trainees in the year. Thus, the waiting time for the waitlisted visually impaired for rehabilitative training was shortened from one year to eight months.

 

Information Accessibility Centre (IAC) 
The Scan to Light, Compu-light Project and the Ten-dollar ICT Training Programme were welcome by members. The Barrier-free Reading Corner and Digi-infotainment Zone were set up in September 2007 to let visually impaired members enjoy cyber life through access of information and the internet. Apart from these, the Tele-digital Voice Library was improved by adding eight telephone lines to meet with the increasing service demand in December 2007.

Career Support and Development Centre (CSDC) 
Upon official handover of CSDC to the Rehabilitation Division on 1 September 2007, CSDC has developed a Tricycle Employment Service Model with an aim to enhance employability of our visually impaired job seekers in the open market. The service model focuses on (1) Outlook improvement including work attitudes, physical appearance and developing a positive self-concept; (2) Skills enhancement including use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills and writing capabilities; and (3) Field Practice including arrangement of job internship in the open market for members, so that they can have a real work situation to practice what they have learnt and to develop job confidence and working competencies.

Centralised Braille Production Centre (CBPC) 
The passing of the Copyright (Amendment) Ordinance 2007 on 6 July 2007 did help to ease our worries in getting prior approval from publishers for publishing braille books. To go in line with serving the immediate reading needs of the visually impaired, CBPC has developed a Braille eBook reading programme that contains bookmark and content search functions. The eBook reading programme was first released to readers as from 1 November 2007. Not only was it handy as compared with the braille hard copy, the introduction of braille eBook has provided an alternative to the visually impaired students and readers.

Community Liaison 
During the year, the Division has participated actively in community work and liaison. Director of Rehabilitation Division was appointed to join the Network on Visually Impaired of the Hong Kong Joint Council for People with Disabilities as committee member. She was also a member of Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF) Committee of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, and a member of Shamshuipo District Rehabilitation Service Co-ordinating Committee and International Rehabilitation Day Organising Committee 2007.

Mr Kim Mok, Senior Manager (ICT & Coporate Communication) was appointed by the Hong Kong Government as a member of the Rehabilitation Advisory Committee.

Mr Simon Yu, Unit In-charge of O&M Training Unit, attended meetings of the Working Group on Access to Public Transport by People with Disabilities of the Transport Department. Mr Wallace Wu, Senior O&M Instructor, attended the Advisory Committee on Barrier Free Access (ACBFA) of Buildings Department. Mr Victor Ng, O&M Instructor, participated in the Communication Meeting with Members of Disability Groups under MTR Corporation.

 

Statistical Supplement 2007/2008
Rehabilitation Centre

Rehabilitaiton Programme

 

 

No. of Case Referrals Received	132
Enrollment for the year	163
Counselling Service	330

 

 

 

 

 

Home Management Skills	No. of Trainees
Techniques of Daily Living	64
Cookery	67

 

 

 

 

 

Communication	No. of Trainees
Reading/Writing in Braille	61
Putonghua	32
Handwriting	43
Word Processing	58

 

 

 

Orientation & Mobility Skills	No. of Trainees
O&M	76
Route Orientation	66

 

 

 

 

 

Sports and Recreation	No. of Trainees
Physical Training	85
Music	24
Monthly Outings (average attendance)	73

 

 

 

Others
Community Life Education Class (No. of attendance)	86
Self-help Group Meetings	20
Group Meetings	382
Social & Education Programmes	68

 

Readership

 

Library Members	2,503
Tele-library Service Users	219,953

 

Collection

 

Braille Books	8,800(titles)
Talking Books	4,611(titles)
Music Compact Discs	4,237(discs)
CD-ROMs/VCDs	5,800(discs)

 

Loans

 

Talking Books	93,141(cassettes)
Braille Books	12,435(volumes)
Talking Periodicals	23,171(cassettes)
Braille Periodicals	6,317(volumes)
Music Compact Discs	5,849(discs)
CD-ROMs/VCD	5,132(discs)

 

Career Support and Development Centre

 

No. of facility users	4,802
No. of equipment on loan	360
No. of enquiries/referrals	7,220
No. of new registrants in Employment Service Unit	48
No. of placement in Employment Service Unit	49
Accumulated No. of registrants in Supported Employment Service	10
No. of placement in Supported Employment Service	8
No. of job interviews under escort	127
No. of IT courses	47

 

Centralised Braille Production Centre

 

Transcription Completed Books:	No. of Titles
English	186
Chinese	258

 

 

 

 

 

Articles/Documents:
English	290
Chinese	425

 

 

 

Thermoformed/Embossed/Bound

 

Books (Volumes)	4,355
Books/Articles/Documents (Sheets)	605,454

 

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Research & Development Division
Innovations
Innovations make a difference in the life of visually impaired

The General Eye & Low Vision Centre (GELVC) 
The General Eye and Low Vision Centre recorded an increase of 4% in number of surgery in 2007/08, and its general eye and low vision services treated more than 45,000 persons. With the support of the S.K. Yee Medical Foundation, the Centre provided surgical subsidy to 44 patients with financial hardship to restore their eye sight, and dispensed 221 low vision devices free of charge to low vision patients who were CSSA recipients. Free eye examinations and eye care talks were provided to more than 6,500 students, elderly and handicapped people via our Vision Screening Bus Project.

The Centre organized the Mobile Eye Treatment Centre (METC) No.15 Donation Ceremony cum Public Education Exhibition at the Cultural Centre on 25 and 26 August 2007 with the Asian Foundation for the Prevention of Blindness and the Hong Kong Association of Private Eye Surgeons. A 15-hour marathon surgery for 16 poor cataract patients was carried out on 25 August 2007. The activities helped to promote the blindness prevention and management programmes organized by our Society in Hong Kong and in China.

In the year to come, GELVC will continue to provide vision screenings and eye care talks actively for primary school students, residents of elderly homes and activity centres and hostels for the mentally handicapped persons. Improvement in its telephone enquiry and appointment systems to upgrade service quality is under planning.

The Parents Resource Centre for Visually Impaired Children (PRC)
Year 2007/08 had been a fruitful year for the Parents Resource Centre for Visually Impaired Children in terms of service provision. There were increases in the number of new members, drop-in members and members attendances: 14 families consisted of 42 individuals enrolled as new members; number of drop-in members increased from 1,789 in 2006/07 to 1,846 in 2007/08. These achievements were made possible by the organization of 75 training, family and supportive service programmes with 2,279 attendances. Some of the programmes were very unique and meaningful, such as the "KINGDOM Swimathon for Brightness 2007", and exchange with the parents of visually impaired children of the Guangzhou School for the Blind.

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, a series of programmes will be held in 2008/09. They include: Essay and Radio Drama Competitions and a Marathon Charity Concert to promote public awareness of the abilities of the visually impaired, their equal participation and social integration.

 

The Consultancy Service Unit (CSU)
Based on the good marketing and product development ground works done in 2006/07, CSU recorded a significant increase in job orders for the production of tactile maps and the launching of new products in 2007/08. It also actively involved in barrier- free access public education activities.

During the year, it provided consultancy services in Barrier-Free Access (BFA) to five housing estates of the Housing Department, three public sports complexes of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, and the Knowles Building of the University of Hong Kong. The number of confirmed job orders for the design and production of tactile maps was 46, which was 20 more than that of 2006/07.

On top of consultancy service and supply of products, CSU also researched and developed new products that are more applicable and popular than the existing ones: metal tactile maps with color coating and laser marked texts on the braille-dot surface to make the map usable by the sighted, low vision persons and people with severe visual impairment; audible system that contained a timer to control the volume at night to avoid disturbance to the residents near to the maps; solar energy system to drive the audible system of the map!&s musical humming signal and vocal description.

The Unit provided technical support to the Career Development and Public Education Centre in the organization of a public education exhibition on BFA living environment for the visually impaired in June 2007, which attracted about 3,600 participants. The exhibition demonstrated how BFA facilities could enhance the independence of the visually impaired in communication and mobility.

To go for better management efficiency, the Unit will merge with the Barrier Free Access Technology Services Unit in 2008/09.

 

The Career Development & Public Education Centre (CDP) 
The CDP completed the 11th Massage Training Course and the 2nd Advanced Massage Training Course in November and December of 2007 respectively, and the 12 visually impaired graduates of the two courses earned the skills and qualifications necessary for them to build a more successful career. The Centre also successfully organized the First Health Massage Essay and Skill Competition for the visually impaired masseurs of Hong Kong to strengthen their skills and knowledge, and publicized the professionalism of the visually impaired masseurs.

Towards the end of 2007/08, CDP ceased to operate, and its career development and vocational training services were gradually transferred to the Career Support and Development Centre and the Rehabilitation Centre of the Rehabilitation Division respectively.

The public education and volunteer training services of CDP reached thousands of people of the general public, especially the younger age group through newsletters, workshops, educational seminars, facility visits, etc. It formed a pool of 417 volunteers, and 80 of them actively helped the Centre to run various programmes and activities.

The Vision 2020 Low Vision Resource Centre (LVRC)
The Vision 2020 Low Vision Resource Centre has been in service for 54 months since July 2003, and the number of developing countries acquiring low vision devices from the Centre increased to 78 in 2007/08. LVRC dispensed a total of 27,968 low vision devices and equipment in 2007/08.

The Centre now has 143 different items of low vision devices and equipment, and they are listed with their specifications and prices in the LVRC web page posted in the Hong Kong Society for the Blind!&s web-site. Service providers in the field of low vision who are interested in the devices and equipment can make enquiries by email, and download the order form. The number of low vision devices and vision assessment equipment dispensed by LVRC increased gradually from 5,672 pieces in July 2003 - March 2004 to 22,282 pieces in July 2007 - March 2008. On top of the supply of equipment and devices to low vision clinics in the developing countries throughout the world, the Centre also supported the training of national focal persons for low vision service in the developing countries, and provided resource management skill training to their representatives.

LVRC also conducted regular meetings with the IAPB Low Vision Programme Committee to review the types of low vision devices and assessment equipment needed to be developed.

To benefit more visually impaired people living in these countries, we shall increase the range of low vision devices and assessment equipment to enhance their applications for the visually impaired. A more convenient on-line purchase system will be set up for our clients, and we will provide human resource training to those countries that plan to set up low vision resource depots and services.

 

Statistical Supplement 2007/2008
General Eye and Low Vision Centre

Total No. of Attendance

 

General Eye	41,041
Low Vision	2,207
Vision Screening	5,838

 

 

  

 

Parents Resource Centre for Visually Impaired Children

Membership 

 

Members	791
Affiliated Members	58

 

Member Attendance

 

Drop-in members	1,846
Visitors	203
Enquiries/Referrals	90
Toys & Resource Loans	451

 

Toys & Resource Library Collections

 

Educational Toys	439
Reference Books	678
Educational Compact Discs	155
Learning Tapes	442
Video Tapes	121
Video Compact Discs	440
CD-ROM	87

 

Career Development and Public Education Centre

No. of Visits

 

Schools	454
Agencies/Organizations	82

 

No. of Visitors

 

Schools	1,199
Agencies/Organizations	1,873

 

Public Education Seminars

 

No. of Educational Seminars	50
No. of Participants	8,043

 

Training on Sighted Guide Technique for Students and the General Public

 

No. of training classes	25
No. of Participants	678

 

Public Education Exhibition & Demonstration on Barrier Free Access

 

No. of Exhibitions	4
No. of Participants	6,560

 

Career Development and Training Unit

 

No. of facility users	4,802
No. of equipment on loan	360
No. of enquiries/referrals	7,220
No. of sale of aids and appliances	3,105
No. of new registrants in Employment Service Unit	48
No. of placement in Employment Service Unit	49
Accumulated No. of registrants n Supported Employment service	10
No. of placement in Supported Employment service	8
No. of visually impaired received computer skill training	176

 

Vision 2020 Low Vision Resource Centre

 

No. of low vision devices dispensed to developing countries

29,565pcs

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Residential Services Division
Harmony
Harmony and meaningful programmes help to build a fulfiling life in the Homes 
Five major objectives had been set for the Residential Services Division under the Three Year Programme Plan from 2007/08 to 2009/10. They are: 1) Promotion of Client Participation, 2) Community Networking, 3)Enhancement of Clients’ Quality of Life, 4) Building up Staff Service Commitment and Professionalism and 5) Improvement in Facilities and Service Expansion. Major achievements and remarkable developments are highlighted in the following:

Client Participation 
Apart from regular residents’ and relatives’ meetings, parents’ association, Residents’ Consultative Committees, Meal Service Consultation Committees and Leisure Programme Committees were set up in the Homes to facilitate client participation in our service management. In addition, competitions and elections were organized to enhance the cohesiveness of residents and arouse residents’ sense of belongings towards the Home, namely, Room Cleanliness Competition, “My Favorite Meal Election” and “My Favorite Programme” and etc. There was also good sharing at the bi-monthly Parents-Staff meeting at Morning Glory DAC cum Hostel about the value of fostering personal growth and development of our residents. Mutual trust and good communication were established.

During the year, customer satisfaction surveys were conducted at Morning Glory DAC cum Hostel and the Bradbury Home, to draw feedback from residents and family members on their satisfaction in regard to staff’s working attitudes, service qualities including home facilities, nursing services, social and recreational activities, meal provision, other professional and supporting services, and etc. The result of the surveys was positive and encouraging.

Professionalization of Residential Care
The Dementia Care Team
There were 125 diagnosed demented residents, representing nearly 28% of the total capacity in our four aged blind homes in 2007/08. The Dementia Care Team continued to run different therapeutic groups, such as music therapy, aromatherapy, reminiscence, remedial activity and sensory stimulation for the demented aged blind.

With support from the Special-One-Off Grant (SOG), two dementia care training workshops, “Smart Brain Gymn” and “Touch for Health”, were held on 6 &14 September 2007 respectively. The training was enlightening as it introduced a new way of brain training and body touch that is beneficial to both staff
and our service users. Participants found the workshop interesting and applicable in daily training programmes for residents.

The “Dementia Care Service Manual for Aged Blind” was published in December 2007 with an ISBN number. It was a great achievement of our Dementia Care Team working together with different professionals to consolidate the experience of application of different therapies for a sharing with the practitioners in the field.

Physiotherapy Service
To pool resources for better service delivery, the Physiotherapy Service Team of the Division continued to provide quality service to the aged blind residents in our four Homes for the Aged Blind and the Morning Glory DAC cum Hostel with acquisition of new pain relief electrotherapy equipment - the Ultrasound Therapy Unit and Interferential Therapy Unit.

As a follow-up to the research project on “The Effect of Exercise Programme on the Performance of Functional Balance of Visually Impaired Elderly Living in Residential Setting” which was presented at the 12th International Mobility Conference in November 2006, data collection for fall accidents of the aged blind between 2006 and 2008 in each of the Aged Blind Home for further study of the causes of fall for devising effective preventive measures was in progress. The findings would be published in a local physiotherapy journal after finalizing the study report.

Apart from standard service delivery, one of the physiotherapists started acupuncture as a supplementary treatment for aged blind residents in Tuen Mun Home for the Aged Blind after attaining the required qualification in 2007. The other physiotherapist would follow suit to introduce acupuncture to aged blind of Kowloon Home for the Aged Blind and the Bradbury C&A Home for the Aged Blind in 2008. The acupuncture service is provided according to the standard set out in the “Practice Guidelines on Acupuncture by Physiotherapists in Hong Kong” published by The Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association.

Caring Skills Enhancement
Caring Skills Enhancement Training Course supported by SOG was launched from 4 January to 22 February 2008 to enhance the caring skills of frontline care workers. A two-month Advanced Health Worker Course was started in March to up-grade the nursing skills of health workers.

Occupational Safety and Health 
The Occupational Safety and Health Committee of each Home held regular meetings on a quarterly basis with the aim to promote work safety and minimize work injuries. Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) training had been planned under various service teams. Regular checking of staff’s OSH awareness, infection control, checklist on equipment safety in the Homes had been done. Besides, regular inspection of environmental safety, fire prevention and proper posture for use of computer screen and the assessment of manual handling for frontline staff had been carried out. Talks on fire prevention, risk assessment, manual handling for transfer and lifting of residents had been organized for staff to enhance their knowledge in work safety.

Enhancement of Quality of Life and End of Life Care 
Improvement of clients’ quality of life to enrich the clients’ dignity, self-value and sense of belonging to the service unit, so as to lead a meaningful and quality life was another main objective in the Three Year Programme Plan. Promotion of End of Life Care and Spiritual Care for our residents to facilitate a positive outlook towards life when they face the challenges of ageing and health deterioration was our main focus.

A team of multi-disciplinary professionals: including nurses, social workers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists providing services such as: pain management, compassionate care, meaningful relationship building between staff and residents, development of self-respect and dignify would be included in the programme. On palliative care, we aimed to promote dignity, encourage openness about dying, enable choice and control by residents over care interventions and minimize their fear of death. Professional staff members attended a meeting on 25 October 2007 to share their ideas on running palliative care and spiritual care programmes.

In terms of hardware for enhancement of clients’ quality of life, adaptive equipment, such as desktop video magnifier, pocket-size magnifier, braille display and etc were purchased for different Homes and units to facilitate residents’ participation in educational and social activities. Wireless network had been installed in the Homes to promote web-talk between residents and residents’ family members in order to strengthen family relationship. However, it takes time to introduce the services to the relatives. It is hoped that the web-cam could be widely used in the coming year.

Survey on Quality of Life of Aged Blind
A joint study had been launched with the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies of Lingnan University under the leadership of Professor Alfred Chan Cheung Ming, on "Quality of life of aged blind in the residential homes and community." A survey report would be published with the ultimate goal of developing a measurement tool to measure quality of life of aged blind in Hong Kong with a user manual. The project would last for about a year.

Tuen Mun Home for the Aged Blind 
To pursue life-long learning, aged blind residents had been encouraged to learn new knowledge and skills. A Graduation Ceremony named 松柏學院畢業禮 was held on 8 March 08 to award certificates to those residents who had attended not less than 20 hours of study during the year of 2007. A total of 26 residents were awarded certificates at the ceremony.

Replacement of facilities and equipment was carried out since the Home had been established for 11 years. Replacement of 52 sets of air-conditioner in residents’ dormitories and nurse stations supported by the Lotteries Fund Emergency Grant was completed in December 2007.

The environment of the scented garden was much improved by replacement of seamless safety matting with installation of additional fitness equipment, landscaping improvement and renovation of the water distillation of fish pond that was completed in March 2008. Others included: improvement in the physical environment that went for green environment, electrical kitchen, improvement in the meal service, and etc.

Yuen Long Home for the Aged Blind 
Replacement of gas-consumed kitchen equipment with electrical ones in kitchen with incentive subsidy from China Light & Power was made in May 2007 at the Yuen Long Home for the Aged Blind. It proved to be cost saving with better ventilation at kitchen.

Resident meal consultation meetings were held to collect opinions from residents on meal provision of the Home. During the year, meal service quality had been improved by sourcing new suppliers for fresh and quality food with reasonable prices, despite inflation.

A supplementary grant of $525,800 from the Lotteries Fund was approved by the Social Welfare Department on 20 September 2007 in addition to the original grant of $4,327,000 approved in May 2003 to carry out major renovation for the Home. To meet with urgent repairs, minor renovation had been done for the canteen and corridor of the dormitories before Lunar New Year of 2008 so as to provide a more comfortable living environment for the residents.

Kowloon Home for the Aged Blind 
The Residential Services Division was indebted to the generous donation from Mrs Grace Chan, the former Chief Executive of the Society, who had donated $40,000 for acquisition of dementia treatment aids to enrich the dementia care programme of our four aged blind Homes. An appreciation ceremony cum opening of the “養心閣” the Spiritual Cultivation Room, at the Kowloon Home for the Aged Blind, was held on 28 June 2007. Sensory motor training and therapy had been carried out effectively for the residents with unstable emotions since its opening.

The replacement of the floor mounted air-conditioners to window split-type air-conditioning units in 7 dormitories on 7/F was completed in March 2008. The problem of water flooding caused by the obsolete floor mounted air-conditioners had now been solved.

The renovation work and replacement of facilities and equipment in common washrooms were carried out in the financial year. In early October 2007, a funding of $246,475 was approved by Drs Richard Charles & Esther Yewpick Lee Charitable Foundation-Charity for Blind to purchase an assisted bath system and a bedpan washer to improve our care to the residents.

The social work team started the project “Golden Rainbow” (金色彩虹計劃) on 7 March 08 which introduced the concept of palliative care and spiritual care to the residents. A series of programmes for the palliative care would be carried out in 2008-09.

Bradbury Care and Attention Home for the Aged Blind 
The”Customers Service Committee”started its second term since March 2007 for a period of 2 years. Nearly 60% of residents participated to elect their room representatives. As a result, 9 residents and 2 family members were elected as the new committee members to participate in home affairs consultation.

The repair work for canopy and roof top was completed and the main door was also replaced in March 2008. The fixed electrical installation and necessary repairs had been completed at the end of November 2007 with a new Certificate of WRII issued. Furthermore, minor renovation works in two washrooms, physiotherapy room and social work team office were carried out with the support from Lotteries Fund Block Grant and recurrent subvention of the home. Residents!& relatives and visitors welcomed these improvements in the physical environment.

With support from the Diploma Construction (Holdings) Company Limited, the main door of the Home had been replaced with a pleasant entrance outlook. In addition, donation was solicited from the Lions Club of Repulse Bay to replace the old home van which had been used for 15 years. The replacement would be completed in mid April 2008.

Morning Glory DAC cum Hostel(MGCH)/ Bradbury Home(BH)/ Joyful Home(JH) 
Leadership Training Programme
“Leadership Training Programme” had been launched for a group of more capable trainees who took active participation in agency functions, such as “KINGDOM Swimathon for Brightness 2007” with support from “Friends of MGCH” (volunteers of MGCH). Most of the trainees exhibited good progress in social interaction and communication skills.

Awards in Open Competition
A group of parents and residents from MGCH, BH and JH attended the “Celebration of National Day Singing Contest Final” on 11 September 2007 and shared the happiness of Annie Lau and To King Pui, residents of Bradbury Home, who got the Appreciation Award in Group Singing Competition, while Chor Wai Hong of the Joyful Home got the Appreciation Award in the Solo Singing Competition.

Exchange Tour to Guangzhou School 
The parents of MGCH & BH joined the “Parents Exchange tour to Guangzhou School for the Blind” from 9 to 10 June 2007. They shared their life experience on raising a child with special needs. The feedback from participants had been encouraging and impressive.

Carer Successor Scheme
A “Carer Successor” Scheme that aimed to draw in support from residents’ siblings to remove the stress of the aged parents in terms of rendering care to their multiply-handicapped children had been launched during the year. In the Three-Year Programme Plan, we would be working with the families to deal with the challenges of “Ageing” and “Strengthening family support network” in meeting the psychosocial and physical needs of ageing trainees and their parents.

Improvement of Home Condition 
The replacement of the worn-out air-conditioning system on 4/F of MGCH and the improvement work for an open kitchen for training purpose on 3/F were completed in November 2007 and January 2008 respectively. Renovation work, including painting, spalling concrete repair and kitchen renovation at the Bradbury Home was in progress and was expected to be completed in April 2008.

Fund-Raising Programmes
The fund-raising programme -“Searching the Grateful Hearts” (尋找有心人計劃) for the Joyful Home continued in 2007 to support disabled from low-income families to receive needy service of the Joyful Home. Six private donors including our visiting Medical Doctor, Mr Affandy Hariman, and a company donor supported individual residents with financial need under the form of foster care. Up to March 2008, the amount collected was over $100,000. We were much indebted to the donors for their generous support.
A Charity Run led by Ms Annie Fonda, Superintendent of Police of the Police Tactical Unit (PTU) was successfully held on 16 November 2007. There were about 160 runners from PTU Bravo Team and around $80,000 was raised to support development services for the mentally handicapped blind.

Deafblind Rehabilitation Programme
Deafblind Resource Centre (DBRC)
A dance workshop for the deafblind had been organized the first time for 9 deafblind and 2 visually impaired persons from May to June, 2007. They paired up with volunteers to learn the different body movements. Both the deafblind participants and sighted volunteers enjoyed the programme.

To promote services of DBRC, contacts had been made with deafblind graduates of the Rehabilitation Centre to re-establish the link and to provide them with necessary supportive service.

Deafblind Training Programme
Thanks to support from the Community Chest, specific training programmes designed for deafblind to improve their communication skills and interaction with environment were organized during the year. To improve service outcome, a “Reactive & Multi-Sensory” training room is under planning and will be completed in 2008.

Development of New Tactual Signs 
As the 300 tactual signs now in use were produced since 1995, it was time to add in new vocabularies to enrich the language used by the deafblind. A working group on Tactual Sign Language (TSL) had been set up in May 2007 comprising speech therapists, special school teachers, and sign language interpreters from the Ebenezer New Hope School, the Caritas Lok Yan School, the Hong Kong Society for the Deaf and staff members of our Society. The selection of additional vocabularies had been completed. Three deafblind persons were invited to act as models to help finalizing the tactual signs made. It was hoped that a second edition of training manual would be published in the year 2009.

Overseas Exchange Tour
The project coordinator supported by the Hilton-Perkins International Programme, attended the 14th DeafBlind World Conference from 25 to 30 September 2007 in Perth, Western Australia. A report-back sharing with workers in the field was held on 2 December 2007 at the City University organized by The Hong Kong Council of Social Service.

We had to express our heartfelt thanks to Mr Kirk Horton of the Hilton-Perkins International Programme for organizing a study tour for our staff members to Thailand from 13 to 18 January 2008. They visited several rehabilitation services for multiply disabled and visually impaired. The trip was enlightening. A sharing meeting with staff members was conducted on 25 March 2008 for better planning of our services for the local deafblind.

Heath Massage and Treatment Centre
The business of the S K Yee Health Massage and Treatment Centre exhibited remarkable growth with substantial increase in beauty treatments. To meet with the growing business, additional visually impaired masseurs and masseuses and sighted beauticians were employed. In addition, more business opportunities were explored through switching our focus of mobile massage service from residents’ club houses to large private and public corporations, such as the China Light & Power Company Limited and the Staff Club of the Hong Kong Disneyland.

Promotion of Service at International Level
Through referral made by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, two North American travel magazines had approached us in May and June 2007 respectively, to promote our massage service in their magazines through photos and interviews of our masseurs.

Challenges for the Massage Services
During the year, the business of Mobile Massage Service had been hard-hit by the keen competition from massage graduates of Vocational Training Centres and those from other non-governmental agencies under the Employees Retraining Scheme who charged a relatively low fee to club house residents of private housing estates. In addition, continuous upgrading of the massage skills of our visually impaired masseurs and masseuses are necessary. Apart from encouraging the experienced masseurs and masseuses to sit for an accreditation examination organized by the Ministry of Labour and Social Securit of the PRC Government, advanced training courses had been organized that the masseurs could choose to study a number of modules for knowledge and skills enhancement.

 

Statistical Supplement2007/2008

Average Enrolment in each of the Home 
Bradbury Care and Attention Home for the Aged Blind

 

 

Male	18
Female	31
Total:	49

 

 

 

Kowloon Home for the Aged Blind

 

Female	75
Total:	75

 

Yuen Long Home for the Aged Blind 
Care and Attention Section

 

Male	30
Female	27
Sub-total:	57

Infirmary Section

 

Male	4
Female	15
Sub-total:	19
Total	76

Jockey Club Tuen Mun Home for the Aged Blind 
Care and Attention Section

Male	51
Female	142
Sub-total:	193

Infirmary Section

 

Male	10
Female	28
Sub-total:	38
Total	231

 

Morning Glory DAC Cum Hostel

Day Training Centre 

Male	33
Female	29
Sub-total:	62

Hostel

Male	32
Female	30
Sub-total:	62

Bradbury Home

Male	4
Female	6
Sub-total:	10

Joyful Home

Male	6
Female	1
Sub-total:	7

Health Massage and Treatment Centre

 

Total No. of Customers	16,551
Total No. of Service Hours	22,518

 

流動按摩隊

 

Total No. of Customers	2,250
Total No. of Service Hours	2,521

 
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Finance & Administration Division 
Support
Your support means a lot to the visually impaired
General Financial Situation 

This was the seventh year the Society had opted for the Lump Sum Grant and the second year the Society received the Special-One-Off Grant (SOG) from Social Welfare Department. A sum of $4,353,711 SOG was received in 2007/08 of which $3,465,185 had been spent on staff training and development, salary increment for above mid-point snapshot staff and staff recognition scheme. An application had been sent to Social Welfare Department to carry forward the cumulative unspent balance of the Special One-off Grant for one more year to 2008/09 for the benefit and development of staff. As the Society was able to monitor and control the expenditure for all the service units, a satisfactory surplus was achieved. Overall, the Society continues to be in a healthy financial situation.

A Flag Day was successfully held on 17 November 2007 to raise funds for supporting the operations and capital items of the Parents Resource Centre for Visually Impaired Children, Factory for the Blind, Deafblind Resource Centre, Community Support and Recreational Service. The Flag Day income was $2,275,363 whereas expenditure was $171,001 with a net balance of $2,104,362 for use in the above-mentioned programmes.

Administration Department

During the year under review, the Administration Department submitted two applications to the Social Welfare Department of Lotteries Fund Block Grant and received approval for the replacement of two sets of Passengers’ Lifts and one set of Freight Lift, and renovation of the pumping and drainage system at the West Wing of Headquarters Building. The tendering procedures, rules and guidelines of the Lotteries Fund Projects Section and Architectural Services Department would be strictly observed.

In 2007/08, the Administration Department received 129 visitors who came from different medical units, local and overseas organizations, elderly and voluntary groups, overseas visitors including World Blind Union Asia Pacific Regional Massage Commission, Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government, Beijing, Chengdu, Shanxi and Weizhou Disabled Persons’ Federation, China Blind Massage Administration Centre and Hong Kong Eye Hospital. In future, the Administration Department will continue to receive visitors locally and from overseas for promoting and enhancing service development for the visually impaired.

Factory for the Blind 
Sales
The Factory sales of 2007/08 were $14,045,201.11 ($14.05M). The Factory business recorded an increase of 5.89% compared with the fiscal year 2006/07 and it exceeded the planned sales target of $13.5M by 4.04%.

For individual production sections, the Paper Box Section, Sewing Section and Assembling Section recorded a 9.52%, 24.77% and 12.13% increase of sales respectively over the sales in 2006/07, whereas sales in Filing Tags Section and Trading Section recorded a drop of 17.92% and 16.31% respectively compared to the sales in 2006/07.

The sales and service income of the Barrier Free Access Technology Service Unit (BFATS) in 2007/08 were $2,018,806.39, representing an increase of $593,400.39 (41.63%) when compared to the sales in 2006/07.

The Replacement of a 5.5 Tons Truck 
The Factory is grateful to receive a grant of $282,385 from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust in January 2008 for the purchase of a new 5.5 tons truck as a replacement of the existing old vehicle which was purchased in 1995.

Future Development
The Community Chest of Hong Kong 2008/09 Capital Project Fund granted $116,800 to the Factory for the Blind for its improvement work of water pipes system. The work will be conducted in May and June 2008.

The Factory will put more efforts in sourcing a wide variety of trading products. Also, we will keep developing pad-printing service, hot-stamping service and silk-screening service for souvenirs so as to enhance the business opportunities in the Trading Section.

By making use of our marketing office with two visually impaired workers, telemarketing will be conducted continuously for promoting the Factory’s products and services. If positive feedbacks are obtained from the prospective customers, the Sales and Marketing Officer would pay personal visits to follow up on the business opportunities.

The price of the corrugated boards has increased drastically by more than 20% in early 2008. In order not to register a deficit from the Paper Box business, the price of the corrugated board would be monitored closely.

Adaptive Equipment Service 
The objective of Adaptive Equipment Service is to provide information, procurement service, as well as training on application of adaptive technology and equipment for the visually impaired in study and work, so that they can develop their potential and contribution to the society.

Number of items handled in 2007/08 was 411, which represented an increase of 7% compared to 384 in 2006/07.

 

Statistical Supplement 2007/2008

Sales Proceeds	HK$
Sewing	1,527,949.00
Paper Boxes	9,811,054.62
Filing Tags	825,687.50
Trading	1,312,713.33
Assembling (Sheltered Workshop)	567,796.66
Total	14,045,201.11
Barrier Free Access Technology Service Unit	2,018,806.39

Strength of Factory Workers/ Sheltered Workshop Trainees as at 31 March 2008 
Factory Workers

Visually Impaired	20
Hearing Impaired	3
Mentally Handicapped	61
Ex-mentally Ill	6
Physically Handicapped	0
Sub-total:	90

Sheltered Workshop Trainees

 

Visually Impaired	13
Mentally Handicapped	35
Ex-mentally Ill	79
Physically Handicapped	1
Sub-total:	128