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1-4-2008

• renew your membership

3-3-2008

• Staff Development DayService Suspension Notice
• Fund raising result of our regional flag day for Parents Resource Centre
  

2-2-2008

• Chinese New Year Holiday

24-4-2007

• Renewal of registration cards for the disabled

8-3-2007

• Training Day for Society’s Staff: All services suspended on 29 March

1-3-2007

• 2007-2008 Government Budget: Additional Social Welfare Assistance

15-2-2007

• Warning to Youth people on MP3 players: A study of the Impact of MP3 Players on Hearing amongst Young People

10-10-2006

• Mid-Autumn Festival - Centre closed in the evening
• Newsletter: publication dates rescheduled
• Hearing Our Voice, Help Our Family
  Flag Day (2006) latest news
• THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE DEAF-- Notice of 37th Annual General Meeting

Renew your membership

Your 2007-08 membership has already expired on 31 March 2008. To renew your membership for year 2008-2009, you can come to our Head Office, Hong Kong Centre, Kowloon Centre, TKO Centre or NT Centre in person or apply via mail by using the mailing renewal form. If you wish to receive newsletter in May, please complete your application procedure on or before 12 April.
(For English renewal form, please download from our website www.deaf.org.hk (choose English) or request by fax 2529 3316).

Staff Development Day Service Suspension Notice

All staff will participate in the "Staff Development Day" which will be held on 13 March 2008 (Thursday). And all Centres, including Head Office will be closed on that day. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Staff Fund raising result of our regional flag day
for Parents Resource Centre

The Society’s regional flag day has been held on 22 December 2007 and until February 2008, a sum of $970,000 was raised. Once again we would like to show our appreciation to all volunteers, members and agencies for your generous support to our Parents Resource Centre. A special thanks to volunteers, member and staff who have joined the Gold Flag Ambassadors Scheme, as well as to the agencies joining the Charity Company/Campus Gold Flag Sales. Your continued support would be a great encouragement to us and to those in need!

Chinese New Year Holiday
Please note that our service centres will be closed on the following dates:

Training Day for Society’s Staff: All services suspended on 29 March

The Society will conduct a training day for all staff on 29 March 2007. No service will be offered on that day and head office and all service centres (except Deaf Cafeteria) will be closed. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

2007-2008 Government Budget: Additional Social Welfare Assistance (1-3-2007)
To share the fruits of economic prosperity with recipients of CSSA and Social Security Allowance (SSA), Financial Secretary Henry Tang Yin-yen proposed to provide one additional month of standard rate CSSA payments for CSSA recipients and one additional month of allowance for SSA recipients.

This proposal will benefit over a million people and cost the Government about $1.5 billion in 2007–08.

Mid-Autumn Festival–Centre closed in the evening

To celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival on 6th September, Hong Kong, TKO and NT Centre will close at 6:00 p.m.

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Newsletter: publication dates rescheduled
To facilitate the mailing of Free-ride cards of International Day for Disabled Persons 2006 to hearing impaired members on November 26, 2006, please note the following arrangements for newsletters' publication:

Hear Our Voice, Help Our Family Flag Day (2006)
We have raised $806,000 in our Flag Day this year! The Society would like to thank our volunteers, supporting companies & organizations for their kind support. We look forward to seeing you in future event!

The Hong Kong Society for the Deaf
Notice of 37th Annual General Meeting

Notice is hereby given that the 37th Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Friday, December 8, 2006 at 6:30 p.m. at Tseung Kwan O Multi-services Centre at the following purposes:

1. To confirm the minutes of the Thirty-sixth Annual General
   Meeting
2. To receive and adopt the Chairman’s Annual Report for 2005-06
3. To receive and adopt the Audited Statement of Accounts for the year ended March 31, 2006
4. To elect Council Members for the ensuing term of office
5. To appoint an Honorary Legal Advisor for the year 2006/07
6. To appoint an Auditor for the year 2006/07

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