Pathfinder –
Cambodia Volunteer Service 2014
Eleven CUHK students went on a service trip to Kampong
Chhnang Province, Cambodia, in the summer of 2014.
Due to a lack of flood control facilities, the country is
plagued by regular floods, causing serious environmental
hygiene problems. In response to the issue, the team
constructed facilities such as toilets and water filters for a
local elementary school and 60 families, greatly improving
public hygiene. The volunteers also created an education
programme, teaching the locals about personal hygiene
and prevention of infectious diseases.
Fujia Seed Programme
Nineteen Fujia Seed volunteers, including ten CUHK
students, visited two primary schools in Wuhan Province to
help alleviate teaching burdens of local teachers. For two
weeks they provided summer revision classes to around
185 children, whose parents worked in the city, teaching
them Chinese and English and designing extra-curricular
activities, such as handicraft and drawing. In addition, they
designed specific courses on letter writing and geography,
so the children could learn to communicate with their
parents and understood more about the regions where
their parents worked.
Connecting Myanmar
In the summer of 2014, ten CUHK students visited Myanmar
and the Thai-Burma Border for two months to serve around 400
Burmese people and Burmese refugees in Thailand through
three service projects: 1, school and playground construction
and public health education; 2, journalism training; and 3, human
rights and law education aimed at the Burmese and refugees.
The two-month projects not only allowed the team to develop
profound friendship with the people there, but also let them
experience first-hand the struggles of the refugees and gain a
deeper understanding of Myanmar’s society and politics. Later,
they organised fundraising campaigns in Hong Kong to help
improve the living quality of the community in Myanmar.
Ethnic Minority Health Project
The Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for
Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) has
organised the Ethnic Minority Health Project for six consecutive
years. In 2012, 40 teachers and students went to Guangxi and
Sichuan four times to offer humanitarian aid and promote disaster
resilience best practices through education campaigns. The
team of volunteers provided health assessment to 400 families
of farmers who were affected by natural disasters, while teaching
them about disaster prevention and post-disaster health care.
The service not only enhanced awareness of critical illnesses,
overlooked diseases and hygiene issues, but also deepened
villagers’ understanding of natural disasters and post-disaster
emergency supplies planning.
Starting from the school year of 2015/16, I·CARE
Social Ser vice Projects will offer the ‘Student
Knowledge Exchange Fund’ to encourage students to
practice their academic knowledge by servicing society.
Students interested in organising subject-related social
service projects can apply for this funding to help the
communities in need. Applicants must explain on the
application form how the project can make use of their
knowledge learnt from any CUHK formal lessons. After
the project has been approved, you will be informed
the amount of funding support.
Enquiry number // 3943 3714
The I·CARE office offers consulting services to students
interested in applying for the projects. Students are
welcome to make an appointment with us.
1. Funding for projects below HKD 20,000
This funding support programme ai ds
students to organise service projects of
less than HKD 20,000. The programme
will begin in September for the academic
year of 2015/16 and is open for application
throughout the year. Applications must be
submitted two months before the intended
date when the project takes place.
2. Funding for projects above HKD 20,000
This funding support programme ai ds
students to organise service projects of
above HKD 20,000. Applications will be
accepted in the second semester of the
2015/16 school year.
Funding application details //
Understanding
Socially Disadvantaged School Youths
Through a Social Service Endeavour
To help socially disadvantaged secondary school
students to achieve whole-person growth and regain
confidence, 25 students from the CW Chu College
organised a range of activities for 30 students from
Po Leung Kuk CW Chu College last summer, including
a camp at the Breakthrough Youth Village, pre-
camp workshop and post-camp presentation. The
student service team had to design a theme for the
project, anticipate possible difficulties, develop and
implement action plans, solve various problems, take
up responsibilities and do self-assessment.
CUHK Social Care and
Service Learning Programme 2013-2014
Around 100 CUHK student volunteers led by students from
the Department of Social Work took part in a series of social
initiation, education and service work between December 2013
and April 2014. During the first phase of the programme, they
participated in workshops to understand Hong Kong’s poverty
issues, the way of living of a disabled person, and techniques of
community service. After that, they were guided by registered
social workers to work with cleaners and the underprivileged
and learn about their lives by collecting trash and staying on the
street with them. At the end, the volunteers and their service
recipients organised activities together, handing out flyers
in Mong Kok and raising awareness by setting up education
booths and street performances that introduced community
life. They also participated in the ‘Barrier-Free City Orienteering’
by The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation, where they,
together with a group of people with physical disabilities,
visited checkpoints around Hong Kong and Kowloon and learnt
to communicate with these people. The team of volunteers also
services students with disabilities in CUHK.
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