Feature Stories
Participant Carmen NG appreciates mentor to plot the course with her
Carmen NG (left) and her mentor Windy (right).
Carmen Ng joined the "Dream for the Sky — Life Journey Project" organised by Christian Action in Kwun Tong in 2012. With the help of her mentor, she began to look at her future differently and took a bold step to follow her interest in learning English. Carmen is currently a first-year student of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong.
I heard about CDF from my school. The project offered me an opportunity to make use of the Targeted Savings to upgrade myself and widen my exposure. I joined the project when I was studying Form 5. After three years, I found that I had gained far more than I could imagine.
Windy, my mentor, is fond of traveling. Every time we met, she shared with me what she saw in different places of the world. Her experience was a real eye-opener for me.
Now I am a student of the School of English of the Faculty of Arts at The University of Hong Kong. I am greatly indebted to Windy who has given me valuable advice on my selection of programme choices in the JUPAS application. I studied commercial subjects in secondary school and I thought that business and commerce were all I could select. With her encouragement, I began to explore what I could do well and explore my interests via different extra-curricular activities. At last, I realised that I had intense interest in English language. Now I am able to study what really interests me, but credit must go to my mentor.
Over the past three years, I have gained new experience, broadened my exposure and learnt new knowledge. My younger brother and sister also followed suit and joined the CDF projects too. I am sure that they will see more possibilities for their future.