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Child Development Fund Sixth Batch NGO Operated Project (Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing):

Wind Beneath My Wings   Wind Beneath My Wings (iamge)

Operating NGO:

Hong Kong Playground Association
Jockey Club Tsing Yi Integrated Service Centre For Children & Youth
2/F, Cheung Fat Community Centre, Cheung Fat Est, Tsing Yi, N.T.

Jockey Club Upper Kwai Chung Integrated Service Centre For Children & Youth
G/F, Shek Chun House Low Block, Shek Lei (I) Estate, Kwai Chung, N.T.

Project highlight:

  • Leisure Lab Project: Provide diversified activities to develop leisure and related career development (Past activities include workshops on leather, hand-made, vaudeville, balloon twisting, make-up, cooking and Wing Chun; training on climbing, adventure, first-aid, cannoning and abseiling, etc.)
  • Annual award to committed mentor and mentee
  • Diversified volunteer services to encourage the participants to care the community and widen their horizon
  • In addition to 1:1 mentor matching, small group mentoring will be used to foster the linkage between participants and mentors
  • Training on career planning by Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) to participants for helping them to set out the personal development plan

Activities at a glance:

For participating children
  • Life planning workshop
  • Leisure Lab Project
  • Voluntaiment social service
  • Financial training
  • My career project
For parents / guardians
  • My dream workshop
  • Education and career planning workshop
For mentors
  • Understanding of children and youth X life planning workshop
  • Mentor 101 Training

Target recruitment number:

105

Application deadline for participants and mentors (Quotas are available on a "first-come, first-served" basis):

For participant：28 Feb 2017
For mentor：31 March 2017

Enquiry and Application:

Telephone : 2433 5277 (Mr HO Ka-lun or Miss LEE Luk-tak)

Email : cdf@hkpa.hk

For more information please refer to the Project Website.

Mentor recruitment

he Wind Beneath My Wings project welcomes applications from those who meet the following criteria. Qualified applicants will be invited to interviews:

  • Aged 18 or above
  • Having integrity, strong moral principles and responsible
  • Committed to all programme training and activities during the three-year period
  • No criminal record in Hong Kong or overseas (self- declaration)
  • Experience of mentoring or service of 10-16 years old children will be an advantage
Other project operated by Hong Kong Playground Association: