Help sought from youth in Chch
Young people in Christchurch have been urged to increase their support for the work -of the Cerebral Palsy Society. Speaking at the society’s annual meeting, the president and member of Parliament for Wigram (Mr M. A. Connelly) said the society had built a hostel and selfcare units for 18 young people aged between 18 and 30. It was now vitally important for other young people in the community to become more directly involved in rehabilitation work for the young disabled.
Only by forming close links with the ordinary, community could the process of rehabilitation, encouraged by the society in all its work, be fully effective, Mr Connelly said. In the last 10 years the society had' saved the taxpayer more than $300,000 in the rehabilitation work it had been able to do with more than 40 people affected with cerebral palsy. If the society had not undertaken this work, these people would have had to be cared for in hospitals and other State institutions, he said;
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