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Kudos to All “Easy Volunteer” Volunteer Service Award Recipients!
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Kudos to All “Easy Volunteer”
Volunteer Service Award Recipients!
More than 3,300 individual volunteers as well as about 50 groups were given individual and group awards at the HKFYG’s inaugural "Easy Volunteer" Volunteer Service Award. YHK has the details as follow.
Results of the first HKFYG’s “"Easy Volunteer" Volunteer Service Award for 2021 have been announced! After a stringent process of shortlisting and selection, the individual volunteers and organisations were identified and acknowledged for going the extra mile with their spirit of volunteerism.
Executive Director of the HKFYG, Mr. Andy Ho thanked the award-winning volunteers and organisations for being committed with their perseverance and consistent efforts with innovative ways of community engagement despite of the epidemic.
Mr. Ho also took the opportunity to launch another HKFYG new project, named “Stepping Forward with Commitment to Hong Kong”. He urged the Hong Kong youth present to keep actively participate in social services and contribute to the community collectively.
The Education University of Hong Kong
The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) won the Gold Award for Volunteer Service (Groups) 2021 in the Volunteer Commendation for 2021. Mr. Leung Sai Kit, Assistant Director of Student Affairs, said that EdUHK has always been supportive of their students’ community service efforts. Volunteerism is also inculcated as part of the training for its leaders who volunteer, so that students can be part of the society with a people-oriented spirit.
Mr. Teddy Leung, Student Development Manager also added that the epidemic has disrupted their initial volunteer service plan. Therefore, the EdUHK volunteer team has to be creative and transformed some of the physical volunteer activities to be held online instead, such as the online companion reading services.
Another gold award-winning organisation is the Shak Chung Shan Memorial Catholic Primary School’s Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). Four volunteer representatives: Ms. Liu Lai Ling; Ms. Long Qiuxia; Ms. Wang Shiming, and Ms. Zhang Yingyi, believe that volunteer activities can help promote and strengthen parent-child relationships. Parents like them have the responsibility to let their children understand the importance of volunteering in the service, such as the differences between volunteers and ordinary participants, which in turn nurture responsibility.The spirit of volunteerism can gradually become integrated to their daily lives. A very good example was their children once encountered an elderly person who fell while outdoors. They took the initiative to care for the elderly person and provided support. Such helpfulness brings the parentchild closer and builds shared goals and beliefs.
Individual Awardee
Holy Trinity College
Three key members of the volunteer team from the Sham Shui Po district, Huang Shuting, Liu Jiayan and Wu Hanrong, won the individual volunteer award in this recognition scheme. They believe that it has become very difficult to participate in volunteer services during the epidemic. As volunteer leaders in the school, they are also responsible for organising volunteer services for teachers and students. They have to negotiate with external organisations about the service collaboration and regularly report the progress of the work to teachers. Although the activities of the volunteer team have been postponed countless times, they never gave up and still actively searched for various service opportunities for students in the past year, including responding to the poster design competition of external groups, and promoting community care and peace to the students in the school. The volunteer team also regularly sends members to support the online homework-asking activity of “Easy Volunteer” tutoring matching feature, providing homework counseling services for primary and secondary school students online, and helping to promote the service to needy families in the district.
About “Easy Volunteer” Volunteer Service Award
Results of the "Easy Volunteer" Volunteer Service Award 2021 and the 2022 application arrangements have been uploaded to https://yvn.hkfyg.org.hk/ volunteeraward/. To get the latest volunteer service information, please go to “Easy Volunteer” to register and search for volunteer service opportunities in various districts at easyvolunteer.hk. Enquiries: easyvolunteer@hkfyg.org.hk
