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Executive Director's Report
Dear HAC friends;
With the heart to give care and practical support to every
child and their parents, we have provided the following services:
Ms. Wong, Executive Director, making charity sale with children members. |
Story telling and Reading Inspire
Children
As an organization named after the
renowned Danish story writer, Hans Christian Andersen, we
adopted story telling and reading as a mean to strengthen
children's creativity, reading ability and life education.
This innovative method makes us closer to our service users'
needs, facilitates the building of mutual support network
and nurtures the reading culture in communities. For example,
the "Reading Sowers in Community" project provides free training
services to primary schools for promoting parent-child reading
and parent-school cooperation. Another example, the "Little
Links, Unlimited Dreams" project matches up three pairs of
secondary and primary schools to build up a buddy network
between the students through participation in a variety of
reading activities. What's more, a number of fund raising
activities have been organized to raise money for purchasing
quality books for children from grass-root families and village
primary schools. Over the past year, nearly 1,000 children
received the books they loved.
Play Lightening Children Life
A happy childhood is the wish of everyone!
We want to see that in addition to a happy time, children
can learn to give and care. In the "Toys for Our Joy" and
"Toy's Angel" projects, we emphazied the importance of parent
volunteerism, buddies' support and community care. Over the
past year, Play Ambassadors and Toy's Angels have spreaded
out happiness to families of Wong Tai Sin, Kwun Tong, Sham
Shui Po and Yuen Long districts. The publication of "Play
through Hong Kong" was another great success, by introducing
low budget places to visit in Hong Kong for these families,
It has received a lot of feedbacks and over 10 media coverages.
All copies were sent out soon after its publication.
Presenting yellow followers to artist Ms. Sinje Lee. |
Knowledge Changes Destiny
Information is power! We believe that
when children and their parents from grass-root backgrounds
harnessing with I.T skills and knowledge, they hold their
future in their hands. In 2008-09, we introduced the "Unlimited
Potential Project-Community Technology and Learning Centres"
in Wong Tai Sin, Chuk Yuen and Lamma Island to provide users
with the benefits of digital inclusions.
Overall, our services aimed to promote
the spirit of loving yourself, loving your families and to
further develop support networks amongst children, volunteers
and multi-disciplinary partners. This would eventually build
up communities with care and love. In 2008-09, our Club has
2,367 registered members, 120,930 service recipients, and
over 100 schools and organizations working with us.
With committed support from our partners,
we achieved the above service goals. The corporate volunteers
have contributed over 16,000 service hours towards our services.
Their love and care for the children are invaluable assets
for our works. In November 2008, we organized a "Partners
Gathering" to share our joy in volunteer experiences. A precious
asset is our team of dedicated staff. We conducted numerous
staff training and team building days, to better equip ourselves
with various skills and knowledge. The staff manual, training
policy pay scale and fringe benefits were also reviewed for
improvements, with the objective to give a clearer direction
of human resources development.
Love shall Pass On - The Legacy
of Love
We care for the next generation and
believe they would warm the others' hearts when they grow
up. Looking ahead for the coming years, we will continue our
commitment the above service plans and prepare for the celebration
of our club's 50th anniversary. Fund raising events will continue
for the Academic Development Scheme to fulfill the wishes
of grass-rooted children. "Embrace Partnership with HAC",
a program to create a cheerful environment in the office,
will be presented as a priceless gift to our caring corporate
partners. Regardless of the highs and lows of the economy.
we will support each other!
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| Promoting new book with pop singer Ms. Renee Tai |
Training staff on team spirit. |
May Wong
Executive Director
March 2009
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