WELLNESS Stories June 2020 | Youth Hong Kong
Now aged 19, she is doing Fitness and Sports Studies with the Vocational Training Council and expects to graduate in 2021 with a Diploma of Vocational Education. She already works as a primary school ice hockey coach and the next step will be to get a full qualification. It will be possible because she will join the HKFYG Train the Trainer programme, partnered by The Hong Kong Jockey Club. “HKFYG has played such an important role in my life. I’d like to thank everyone who encouraged me,” says PoonMan, “First, the Youth SPOT gave me a place to hang out after school when otherwise I would have been hanging around with my gang, wasting my time. Then came the
friendships and team spirit of the HKFYG Phoenixes. And now, again with CTS, I have a good chance of a job in sports. What would I have done without that help?” Whatever help PoonMan needs, we hope she will go onward and upward. She deserves it.
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t seemed so hard for Jimmy to concentrate. Eveline had no idea what was wrong with him. Sometimes she was convinced he was just being naughty. She was at the end of her tether by the time she got in touch with the Parent Support Network at HKFYG.
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