Social Service
Xiao Bian Dan Student Service Group
The Xiao Bian Dan Student Service Group of the Chinese University
of Hong Kong, a subsidiary of the Xiao Bian Dan Operation, aims
to recruit students to work together with the Operation’s alumni
volunteers to provide education in rural areas.
Upcoming programmes:
• October 9-11, 2015 (Fri-Sun): Three-Day Educational Service
Tour in Guangning County, Zhaoqing, Guangdong
• November 14-19, 2015 (Sat-Thur): Six-Day Educational Service
Tour in Lingyun and Leye Counties, Guangxi
• December 24-27, 2015 (Thur-Sun): Four-Day Christmas
Educational Service Tour in Teng County, Wuzhou, Guangxi
• March 22-28, 2016 (Tue-Mon): Seven-Day Easter Educational
Service Tour in Tianquan County and Lushan County in Ya’an
city, Sichuan
• May 13-15, 2016 (Fri-Sun): Three-Day Educational Service Tour
in Guangning County, Zhaoqing, Guangdong
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Social Service Team
Founded in 1972, the Social Service Team aims to ‘Unite Students,
Understand Society, Serve the Toiling Masses’. Through longer-
term voluntary work, we hope that students will have a deeper
understanding and relationship with the underprivileged in
society, while gaining different experiences through serving the
underprivileged, benefiting both the service targets and volunteer in
terms of personal growth.
Upcoming programmes:
• October to November 2015: Voluntary tutorial service for ethnic
minority children
• November 2015: ‘LifeStory’ project by Evangelical Lutheran
Church Social Service – Hong Kong
• November 2015: Service for children from low-income families
• January 2016: Service for muscular dystrophy patients
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Three Heart Club
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Three Heart Club is a public
organisation that focuses on short-term voluntary teaching projects in
the mainland. ‘Three Hearts’ refer to love, patience and attentiveness.
We recruit outstanding volunteers in CUHK who visit less-developed
areas in Mainland China to teach during their winter and summer
vacations. Over the past seven years, we have left our footprints
in more than ten schools in four provinces, witnessing hundreds of
children’s growth and change. We sincerely invite those of you who
are full of love and dreams to join our journey and share the power of
knowledge with more children.
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Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) CUHK
Established in 2009, the Wu Zhi Qiao (WZQ) CUHK is a university
student volunteer group under the Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China)
Charitable Foundation. The group aims to gather CU students’
talents and efforts to visit remote, poverty-stricken areas in
Mainland China, where we build temporary bridges and carry out
livelihood projects to improve the living conditions and quality of
the locals.
Upcoming programmes:
Village Improvement Project
Together with other universities’ teams of volunteers, we will visit
rural villages in Midwestern China to conduct preliminary research,
project planning and rural development. Team members will lead
and implement every step of the project.
A Bridge of Hearts
Aside from work, joining the ‘WZQ Family’ would also make
the beginning of new friendships, exchanges and learning. We
will exchange experience with other groups in Hong Kong and
the mainland and l earn about rural social ecology, community
development, traditional architecture and rural public hygiene.
There will also be plenty of opportunities for members within the
team to nurture their friendships.
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Wu Yee Sun College
Lee Woo Sing College
TheService-LearningProgramme is oneofWuYeeSunCollege’s
major emphases in support of its mission: ‘Entrepreneurial
spirit with social responsibility’. The College General Education
courses echo its mission to lay a solid foundation for students to
serve society with their expertise in the future.
The Non-Local Service-Learning Programmes not only broaden
students’ horizons, but also foster their commitment to serve
the needy. In the past, the College has supported students
to visit Myanmar, Cambodia, Africa and Mainland China to
carry out Service-Learning programmes. Getting in touch with
the less privileged groups enables students to understand
people from different social classes while realising their social
responsibility. In addition, the College expects the participating
students to explore different cultures and develop a sense of
global citizenship through observation and discussion on the
social problems in the communities visited. Apart from the
As per its motto ‘Wisdom, Humanity, Integrity, Harmony’,
in which ‘Humanity’ means ‘being considerate, aspiring to
the perfect personality’, the Lee Woo Sing College nurtures
students’ leadership capacities by organising a range of
activities that increase their awareness toward the community
and those around them.
organised trips, the College also encourages students’ creative
service-learning initiatives with the Service-Learning Project
Funding Scheme.
The College General Education courses offer year one students
a window into areas such as ‘Social Problems and Issues’ and
‘Innovations, Social Welfare, and Social Ventures in a Market
Economy’; while year four students are required to design and
plan, in small groups, a project that is innovative and beneficial
to the community.
College students who are enthusiastic about servicing society
have also established the Rotaract Club and Social Concern
Group to contribute to society through social service events
and raise their peers’
awareness of current
social issues.
Through the College General Education course GEWS 1011
and voluntary social service activities organised by associations
such as the United National Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Orbis
and the End Child Sexual Abuse Foundation (ECSAF), students
can put their knowledge into practice. In recent years, the
College has also organised a number of activities, such as visits
to the Christian Zheng Sheng College, which allow students
to understand the lives of Zheng Sheng students and provide
service accordingly.
As for student associations,theCollegeStudent Union’s Rotaract
Club – despite having only existed for two years – has organised
a variety of projects, including tutorial classes for children from
low-income families and a charity bazaar stall. These activities
not only enrich students’ college life, but also prepare them to
serve society in the future.
Clover
Organised annually by the Office of Student Affairs, the service
programme of Clover unites CUHK’s local and non-local students to
provide service to society. The programme aims to build long-lasting
friendships between local and non-local students as well as their
service targets through understanding, respecting and appreciating
each other’s cultures. In the academic year of 2014/15, the programme
saw 15 teams consisting over 150 students take part in providing a
variety of services to around 300 recipients, including local and South
Asian children, the elderly, and those with learning disabilities. Since
its inception in 2009, more than 570 CUHK students have participated
in the programme, serving a total of 1,300 people. In its seventh
year, this year’s activities will be organised by ‘Friends of Clover’ – a
group of past participants – and supported by the Office of Student
Affairs. The theme ‘Stand by Me’ will run through all of the activities
throughout the year, emphasising on serving those at the grass-roots
level of society and promoting environmental messages.
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