Play through Hong Kong

Under the present economic turmoil, many families are facing a difficult time. HAC recently published a local travel book for children and families, "Play through Hong Kong", introducing low budget places to visit in Hong Kong to help cheering up parents and children. (For detail contents of the book, please refer to Chinese version.)

128 pages for free, 4-colored printed book

Recommendation from pop singer Renee Dai Hong Kong is a small place, but if you pay close attention, you will find that there are a lot of interesting places suitable for parent-child activities. This book aims at showing parents places and games which are low-budget and full of fun. I will introduce you to a place that I have used to make a movie: the "Kowloon Walled City Park". It impressed me by its historical background and the beautiful Chinese style design. It is a fantastic place for family photo shooting. The shopping mall next to the park also has many small restaurants to relax after visiting the park. It can be easily reached by public transportation, so let's go to the park this weekend with your family!

Pop singer, Renee Dai, highly recommended the new book

Closing Ceremony of "Toys for Our Joy" and "Toys' Angel" Projects

With the generous donation from "Partnership Fund For the Disadvantaged (PFFD)", Social Welfare Department and Mattel Asia Pacific Sourcing Limited (Mattel), HAC launched the captioned projects. These projects aim to encourage parents to play creative games with their own children. Children from different age groups were also linked up to form peer support groups and played together. To close the project in a meaningful way, HAC published a practical hand book, "Play through Hong Kong" to further encourage parents in Hong Kong to go out and have fun with their children in difficult times.

The closing ceremony of the projects was held in Hollywood Plaza at Diamond Hill. Officiating guests including Ms. Julie Lee from PFFD (forth from left), Ms. Wong Siu-ling of Social Welfare Department (right), Ms. Haster Kwan of Mattel (third form left) and Ms. May Wong from HAC (second from left).

May Wong, Executive Director of HAC, said in the ceremony that enjoying a good time with children does not need to be expensive. She suggested parents to play with their children for 15 to 20 minutes every day using household materials like newspaper. Many creative games could then be derived. A parent, Wong Yuk Lan, shared that after she joined the programs, she got to know many inexpensive ways to play with her own son, and their relationship also got more intimate.

Six stalls of games were put in the venue for the enjoyment of all participants. Magician Brother Harry and Pop Singer Ms. Renee Dai played happily with over 300 audience in the venue. All participants were given the new book.

Harry playes magic with participants	Swing performance
Toys' Angel sings and plays	Crown drama
Hip Hop Dance by teenagers from Tai O Centre of HAC	Audience enjoy themselves

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