An Appeal from Rehab Power

Dear Friends,

I am writing to seek your kind support to our 'Sharing 28' - a event aiming at sharing with the public the positive stories of the persons with disabilities in Hong Kong.

Rehab Power was set up in 1995 by 9 young professional with physical disability who have dedicated years to the promotion of welfare for disabled persons in the Hong Kong Community. Our slogan is "To empower the disabled to develop" and our mission is "To support people with a disability to access training and open employment opportunities". We have established the fist Career Development Centre for People with Disabilities in Shaukiwan in 1997. In the last 7 difficult years, we have trained around 100 people with disabilities (physical disability, mental illness,etc.) each year and around 70% of them are finally open employed and make contribution to the community. Indeed, most of them are with low education background (Form 1 to Form 5) and aged over 40, but they refuse to live under Comprehensive Assistance and after our training, they work hard to earn their own livings (with a monthly salary between $3,000 to $10,000).

In order to share with the public the hardship/efforts/achievement of these outstanding people with disabilities, we will run a great project - 'Sharing 28' from 14:00 p.m. of 22-01-2005 to 18:00 p.m. of 23-01-2005. I should be grateful if you could help to promote this meaningful event by sending the attached self-explanatory Sharing 28 Promotional Letter to your friends and colleagues through e-mail so that they and their friends/relatives could join this meaningful event which is also full of fun and free of entrance fee. Please also request them to widely distribute this Promotional Letter so that more people can come to share with the outstanding persons with disabilities - it's inspiring.

Thank you for your kind support! Please come with your family this Weekend/Sunday to join this great event.

Leo
Leo C.W. Lam
President of Rehab Power