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VII. WORK OF AUXILIARY ORGANIZATIONS
1. Hongkong Christian Welfare & R elief Council (Cont 'd)

Cure can be done voluntarily without fear of police prosecution but
costs however more than the victim can usually afford. The largest number
of cures therefore are those carried out by the Prisons Department through
their Tai Lam Chung prison, where a longer course of treatment , added to
good feeding and an outdoor li f e of progressive exercise and work results
in a man restored to health and strength and sanity.

The Council aids these people in two ways. The f ir s t, applicable to
the urban dweller, is by "se lf help assistance". This aims simply at finding
out what a man can do and giving him the means to do i t .

The second way of helping rehabilitate these people is by land - settle-
ment, marginal land out of which no one has made a p ro fit, but from which a
tough worker can get a livin g. A small proportion of the cured addicts have
been farmers or small-holders in the past, and these few can certainly be
rehabilitated in this way. A small valley at Siu Lam in the New Territories
has been developed, where about 30 people are housed; they have small cottages,
pigs, poultry, and smallholdings for vegetables,

2. Hongkong Doctors' Christian Association The Association aims at
strengthening the work of
Christian medical witness throughout the Colony. During the year, the
Association published a quarterly called 'Christian Medicine'. Every year
it sponsors a medical Sunday, which helps to arouse the Christian conscience
regarding Christian responsibility in the medical fie ld . From time to time
we have invited speakers to give topical lectures to members. The membership
is about 70 at present. It is hoped that the expansion of this Association
w ill help the Christian medical service in Hongkong to keep closer to its c a ll.

3. Audio Visual Evangelism Committee

a) Audio Visual Department 1962 has been a record year for the Audio Visual
Department , both in number of showing given -
848 showings, and in number of audiences - 147,278 persons.

A total of 13 additional fu ll length films were dubbed with Cantonese
dialogue or narration during the year.

Rev. Charles Reinbrecht's place as Executive Secretary in charge of
t h e A u d i o V i s u a l D e p a r t m e n t was taken by Rev. Len Galster
when he le ft for furlough. Mr. Ching Yin Chung joined the Department as a
full-tim e Projectionist and Assistant to Mr. C.W. Ling w h i l e
Miss Shirley Fok continued to serve as Secretary on part-time basis, Mr.
Andrew Chu, upon completion of his training in the United States in Mechani cs
returned to the Department as a part-time P rojectionist.

Our urgent needs at present are: (l) A n additional m o t o r v e h ic le
to replace our present one which has broken down and is beyond repair; (2)
More new films and slid es, and (3) A larger o ffic e space to serve as film
library and projection room. Your support in the forms of contributions and
prayer w ill be highly appreciated.

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