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Teaching Pictures: The South East Asia Curriculum, Chinese Christian
Literature Council and AVEC have been considering how we could produce
Teaching Pictures for the Sunday Schools. CCLC would handle distribution
and AVEC and the Curriculum committee would do selection and production
supervision. This would need a capital grant of US$2,000 to get started
for a set of 12 teaching pictures with a run of two thousand.

These are all possibilities that AVEC could developed. However we
need the great support from our local churches in order to make the
best and widest use of the equipment available.

Thanks of the Chairman, members of the Executive Committee and
various Sub-committees and especially the entire staff for their
entiring and loyal service to AVEC. We look forward to continue on
service to the local churches, schools as well as the whole community.

C. DIVISION FOR SOCIAL SERVICE

Committee for a United Christian Hospital

A number of important developments have occurred with the United
Christian Hospital which have enabled it to now move forward with
considerable momentum. On November 30th the German Central Agency
notified us that a grant of DM 3 million (HK$4.56 million) for the
project has been approved, which is a major capital funds achievement.
We have learned that the Women's Christian Medical College Board
(formerly Shanghai Women's Christian Medical College) is giving
US$100,000 (HK$606,000) toward the building fund designated for the
nurses' training unit.

In December the Hospital Committee reviewed the capital funds
status and decided to proceed on the basis of the hospital having
approximately 350 beds and that the total capital expenditure should
aim at HK$20 million. This means that together with the grants
assured from missionary societies in America, Canada, and United
Kingdom, over 50% of the required capital funds are assured. The
balance of capital needs must come from local sources.

The Committee also reviewed the basic concept of the hospital.
With a community hospital concept, the hospital could better integrate
itself within a specific community and, in close coordination with
other available resources, become deeply involved in raising the level
of total health for the community. Our concept of total health is
that it must be more than simply the absence, cure, or prevention of
disease, but should be something positive which enables individuals
within their environment to progress to greatest maturity. If this
concept of healing is to be approached it will obviously require many
more hands than could possibly be employed by the hospital. A dynamic
relationship between members of local congregations and the health
program is essential.

The Committee compared the plan to build the hospital in North
Kowloon with the possibility of building in Kwun Tong instead. Kwun
Tong has a population of approximately 400,000 persons now and is growing
at a rate of 75,000 per year; it has no acute general hospital facility,
nor casualty service in spite of being highly industrialized. After
carefully considering all the factors, and upon hearing the recommendation
from the Government's Medical Development Plan Standing Committee, the
Committee decided to build the hospital in Kwun Tong.

The Committee studied various sites in Kwun Tong in order to find
the one which best fits our requirements. A site of 5.5 acres has
been selected on Sau Mau Ping Road directly west of the new Sau Mau Ping
Resettlement Estate. The site is near the heart of Kwun Tong and allows
access by foot to the hospital by people living in several resettlement
estates, and several bus routes pass the site. The Government is now
in the process of reserving and making a free grant of the site for
this hospital. Our Architect, the firm of W. Szeto & Partners, is
progressing rapidly in development of the plans.