gbus 2020 public service project - final report
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Table of Contents
Introduction 3Key Project Objectives (Why) 3Key Project Deliverables (What) 4Key Tasks Delivered 51. Fist Site Visit and Discussion 52. Promotion Day in Fortune Kingswood Mall 53. Arts and Music Course 7
Preparation 7Exhibit 1: Course Learning Objectives and Goals 7Exhibit 2: Poster Design 8First Half: Visual Arts Lessons 9Exhibit 3: Drawing Samples 10Exhibit 4: Students Work 10Exhibit 5: Worksheet on 3 May 11Second Half: Music Appreciation Lessons 13Exhibit 6: Worksheet on 10 May 15Exhibit 7: Worksheet on 17 May 18
Implementation and Financials 21Exhibit 8: Implementation Chart 21Exhibit 9: Division of Labour 21Exhibit 10: Expense Report 21Exhibit 11: Implementation Timeline 22Online Promotion Materials 22Acknowledgements 22
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IntroductionPok Oi Hospital was founded in Yuen Long in 1919 to work under the motto, We Love, We Care, We
serve. It aims to provide quality medical and social services to the community at large. Realizing the
increasing complexity of social problems in Hong Kong, the institution provides a diversified set of social
services, apart from hospital services.
The ten Family Multiple Intelligences Centres of Pok Oi Hospital strive to provide a wide range of low cost
services for the families and individuals in communities in Kowloon and New Territories based on the belief
Happy Family, Harmonious Society and the theory of Multiple Intelligences. It has four service objectives:
Firstly, nurture children development in psychological and social perspectives. Secondly, help parents from
grass-roots level families to look after their children and ensure their children receive adequate attention.
Thirdly, assist housewives to better equip themselves with child caring techniques to solve family problems.
Last but not least, promote the message of family harmony and healthy child caring. Their targeted children
age ranges from infants to primary school kids aged 6 to 10. Recently they have also opened a new centre
specially accommodated for providing teenage services.
Most of these centres started as a one floor small premise situated in community centres to provide after
school childcare services for families living in the low cost housing estates nearby. After a few years of
successful operation they managed to expand their service line to provide a wide range of services, rangingfrom interest lessons to counselling service. The organization acted on a self-supporting basis, all
government related funding will be used upon its service targets.
Key Project Objectives (Why)Although Hong Kong is considered to be one of the best developed
financial centre in the world, the income inequality problem is still
growing at large. About 1.3 million people, or 19.6 percent of the
population, were below the poverty line last year, according to a report
commissioned by Chief Executive and released on 28th September.1
Research has also shown that the rate of children poverty is up to 27%,every four children in Hong Kong one is suffering from poverty.2
Many residents living in public housing are on welfare and have limited
consumption power. With the increase of pressure at the workplace and
society due to labour shortage, children of under-privileged families very
often do not receive proper care and attention from their busy parents.
Together with the lack of financial support, these children easi ly miss out
opportunities to attend different interest classes and social activities that
are offered by the general public.
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Partnership with Pok Oi Hospital Children and Families Development Centres
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1319984/hong-kong-draws-poverty-line-13-million-living-below-it?page=all1
http://www.thehubhk.org/about-the-hub/an-insight-to-child-poverty-in-hong-kong2
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Since we are considered to be the better-off portion of Hong Kong teenagers, we have the responsibility
to understand that not everyone in Hong Kong are as lucky as us, there are children living in a harsher
situation due to the issues of intergenerational poverty and lack of adequate family care. By co-operating
with the children and families development centres, this project aims to achieve the following objectives:
Firstly, we can gain knowledge about the social issues regarding the proper care and attention for children
of underprivileged families, how the social institutions help alleviate their problems. Secondly, we aim to
take part in the centres operations and interact with the children ourselves, make a positive differencedespite our small efforts. Thirdly, build a co-operational relationship with the children and families
development centres so that interested UST students can do volunteer work for them in the future.
Key Project Deliverables (What)Through detailed discussions with Ms. Packy Wong, Deputy Service Co-ordinator of Pok Oi Hospital, we
gained more insights on how the Tuen Mun service centre operates. We were deeply impressed by the
Afterschool Care services offered to more than 50 children. The organisation was promoted in the
community mainly through word of mouth and posters. We were also surprised to know the centre had
offered counselling services and art therapy classes to children bothered by stress and family issues.
To better cater the needs of the centre, we had planned to split our project into two parts: Promotion
activities and teaching activities. We were fortunate to have the approval to carry out promotion activities in
a Tin Shui Wai mall for the two centres in order to draw the attention of the parents from low cost housing
estates to make use of the centre. Through this event we hope to increase awareness of the centres
efforts in helping the community and attract more families to enjoy their services, and at the same time,
attract and encourage passionate volunteers to help the centres operation in the process.
For the teaching activities part, we decided to organize a series of interest classes related to art and music
to target children who lacks understanding in these areas. Most children in low cost housing estates lack
the chance to join interest classes due to high costs. By providing these free services, we hope to stimulate
the childrens interests in these areas and if they like it, they can have the willpower and courage to developtheir talents.
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SUBSIDIARY OF POK OIIN YUEN LONG
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Key Tasks Delivered1. Fist Site Visit and DiscussionSince we have identified underprivileged children as our service target of the project, we began to look up
the contacts of social services institutions that could cooperate with us. Pok Oi Hospital was chosen to be
our ideal NGO partner because of its good reputation in the Hong Kong community as well as the
comprehensiveness of its children services provided. Two major discussions were conducted with Mrs.
Packy Wong in January and February to understand about the institution and options available for us to
work with them. We expressed an interest in developing online marketing channels for the centres such asFacebook page and renovation of the main websites, but after further considerations we found that
physical promotions and direct interactions with the children would be a better way for them to draw
attention in their target communities. Fortunately the two centres in Tin Shui Wai had been planning to
conduct a full day promotion in a nearby shopping mall, we decided to take charge of planning that activity
with the staff with smaller promotion activities followed up in the coming months.
Children in underprivileged families do not have enough opportunities to train English writing and speaking
skills. When we planned for the teaching sessions we have considered teaching an English course, but the
centre already had an English learning programme in action before we contacted them, another English
course would be redundant. As the centres also stressed on developing multiple intelligences, we decide todevelop an Arts and Music creativity course and it would start in April.
2. Promotion Day in Fortune Kingswood MallThe Promotion Day was organized on 23rd February, from 9
a.m. to 6 p.m. in Tin Shui Wai Fortune Kingswood Shopping
Mall, after half a week of preparation.
We arrived at 7 a.m. at the Tin Shui Wai centre to gather the
poster, pamphlets and materials required. With the help of
several staff and voluntary workers two gaming booths and
an area for making balloons was set up in the shopping mall.
The main objective of the event was to attract parents in the
shopping mall to engage in mini games and balloon twisting
activities with their children, they would learn more about the
services offered by the centre and hopefully spread the word
to their relatives and friends.
Each of us participated in different promotion events. The management of the gaming booths and the
promotion of the services of the centres to the participants were conducted by Joshua. The coordination of
the balloon twisting activities was done by Ivan, with another young volunteer from the centre. Balloonsshaped like swords and peapods were awarded to the winners of the games as rewards. The jobs of
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No one cares how much youknow, until they know how muchyou careTheodore Roosevelt
GROUP PHOTO OF ALL POK OI VOLUNTEERS
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circling around the street area nearby the shopping mall to distribute pamphlets to the pedestrians and
inviting them to participate the promotion activities were handled by Derrick and a few volunteers.
The event proved to be a success as we have attracted more than 50 families passing by in the families to
participate in our events. The most unexpected visit was an old man living in the housing estates nearby.
He performed a series of magic tricks and balloon twisting skills to the children at the booth. He had
participated in Pok Oi hospitals volunteer services before and wished to learn more about its families anddevelopment centres. We happily collected his contact details as he promised to be a volunteer for future
events held at the Tin Shui Wai centres.
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CHILDREN PLAYING MINI GAMES AT BOOTH HAPPY BALLOON TWISTING
ROSE AND TURTLE BALLOONS OUR BALLOON COLLECTION
DISTRIBUTING PROMOTION PAMPHLETS TEACHING BALLOON TWISTING
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3. Arts and Music Course
PreparationDuring our site visits at the Tuen Mun and Tin Shui Wai families and children development centres, we
understood more about the educational principles the centres follow: The theory of multiple
intelligences. This is a theory proposed by psychologist Howard Gardner which suggested human
intelligence cannot be simply calculated by simple factors such as academic performances, intelligence
is in fact built up from eight different areas including musical, interpersonal, spatial-visual and linguistic
knowledge. We were very intrigued by this analysis, this made us firmly believe that launching an artsand music course is the best training we could offer to these children at the same time suiting the
institutions requirements.
Four lessons, each constituting up to 2 hours and targeting primary 1 and 2 children at the centre, were
offered with the first half mainly focused on drawing with pastel and the second half on listening and
understanding music. It is best for the children to start learning creative knowledge and techniques at a
young age to develop their interest to pursue more in this field in the very future. Nature is a major
theme in our four lessons, as eco-friendly is an important topic in the recent decade and we would like
the children to understand this concept early in their life. Cartoon animals presented in television shows
and story books were also central ideas in a childs mind, teaching them to draw animals and listen toanimals related music would increase their interests to the teaching materials greatly.
We presented our learning objectives and syllabus to Mr. Thomas Tsang, the coordinator of Mr. Ng
Hung Mow Memorial Family Multiple Intelligences Centre of Tin Yiu estate in Tin Shui Wai in March. A
poster was designed and printed at the centre for recruitment of children for the course (Exhibit 4). We
were lucky to have recruited eight children in the end and the lessons would be held in Saturday
afternoons starting from 26th April.
EXHIBIT 1: COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND GOALS
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Give me six hours to chop down atree, and I will spend the first foursharpening the axe.Abraham Lincoln
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EXHIBIT 2: POSTER DESIGN
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First Half: Visual Arts LessonsTAUGHT BY JOSHUA FAN
Meticulous observation is crucial to the development of an
artists visual sense, it is best to start the development such
important skill from a very young age. To facilitate the
childrens enthusiasm and devotion in learning to draw, the
original planned syllabus for these two lessons was to focus
on the techniques of illustrating cartoon animals and natural
sceneries, which are basic components for children
artworks.
After further discussion with the centres coordinator, I was
advised to include more creative elements into the teaching
process. Not only I could introduce drawing as a skill, but
also as a means to express inner emotions. Valuable
opinions were obtained from my art teacher Mr. Tao also,who is a former advertisement designer and possess
experiences in teaching children. He proposed pastel art as
the best form of illustration for children to learn since pastel
colouring is easier for them to control. Childrens imagination
on cartoon characters would be provoked more strongly if
there are real objects presented in front of them for
reference.
As a result, for the first lesson I prepared a set of animal cartoon figures and a pastel drawing featuring
koalas and natural scenery as examples for the children. Two soft toys, which were panda and a teddy
bear, acted as models for the sketching process. At first I asked the children to draw their favouriteanimal cartoon as a test of their current drawing abilities.
Then I asked them to draw the two soft toys to understand
how careful they pay attention to details. Finally I would draw
a cartoon animal they demanded and encourage them to try
out new sketches.
During the process I noticed a great difference in abilities
among my students. There was a girl who was quite
talented, she finished her assigned drawings in high
standard and immediately started to add backgrounds andpatterns to decorate the cartoons, which was not expected
to perform in this class immediately. She drew various
cartoon animals with cute features and great details,
especially one featuring a colourful butterfly. However, there were two boys who often needed help in
constructing the character models and paid less attention, my patience was tested as I explained
several times why they should improve their observation skills and determination in producing artworks.
Luckily in the end all children were able to grasp the basics of drawing and wished to learn more.
The second lesson involved a different approach to art and demanded more creative input. I started the
lesson by introducing the children to the famous Spanish artist Salvador Dali and his famous abstract
paintings such as Persistence of Memory. The nature of the paintings will be quite difficult for thechildren to understand but it is aimed to introduce the concept that artists can express their dreams and
imagination of nature through painting. Art does not need to follow to the rules of nature and it is a way
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BUSILY DRAWING THEIR FAVOURITE
CARTOON TO IMPRESS THEIR TEACHER
CHILDREN OBSERVING THEIR TEACHERS
DEMONSTRATION ATTENTIVELY
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for artists to introduce new concepts to the world. The children can identify how the natural sceneries
and objects in Dalis paintings were distorted and exaggerated. Simple discussions on dreams were
facilitated to arouse childrens imagination for the next stage of the lesson.
EXHIBIT 3: DRAWING SAMPLES#
Finally, the children would make use of what they had learnt in the first lesson and in the past to draw
their favourite dream. I marvelled at the diversity of drawings produced by them. The best drawing was
a dream house of a girl, shaped like a giant red mushroom resting on a small hill. Although there were
certain times that the children lost their attention, they had performed most tasks well in the end.
EXHIBIT 4: STUDENTS WORK
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FANTASY MUSHROOM
HOUSE
BUNNYRABBIT TEDDYBEAR
2008BEIJING
OLYMPICS
MASCOT
JINGJING
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EXHIBIT 5: WORKSHEET ON 3 MAY
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Second Half: Music Appreciation LessonsTAUGHT BY IVAN WONG
After Joshua's exploration into the beauties inherent in
Mother Nature and the depths of personal emotion using
the sense of sight, I then took over to develop the
children's sense of hearing, and tried to spark in them the
interest of appreciation of western music.
To abide by the theme of nature, I chose two program
music collections - The Seasons by Tchaikovsky, a
collection of 12 short piano pieces, each describing a
particular event, festival or mood; and The Fifth and Sixth
Symphony by Beethoven, which premiered as a
contrasting pair and subtitled 'Destiny' and 'Pastoral'.
In the third lesson, I prepared paintings describing the 12 scenes in the collection by Tchaikovsky. After
shuffling, I distributed a painting to each student and asked them to describe the painting that they were
holding. After a round of discussion, I then played the music in its original sequence, starting from
January to December, and they must listen carefully to the music and figure out what was being
described, and the person holding the relevant painting must identify him or herself.
Clues could be picked up from the season and weather of the paintings, for instance, some activities
can only be done in summer or winter, e.g. Harvest, By the Fireside, Troika, etc., while some others can
be difficult to grasp because of the foreign Russian culture, habits and customs, e.g. Carnival, The Hunt,
etc.; or because of the emotional depth or the use motifs and symbols, e.g. Autumn Song, The Lark,
Starlit Night, etc.
However, through engaging in discussions with each other, students can learn to appreciate the music in
different perspectives, which is essential in developing a personal view and understanding in art, which
in itself is a subjective multifaceted experience. Moreover, I try to guide them to listen for musical ideas
that convey the mood or conjure up the image, e.g. a 3/4 waltz meter to simulate a Christmas party
atmosphere, staccato notes to highlight stars in the sky, slow tempo and single cantabile melodic line to
create the imagery of a sad, lonely lark, colourful brass band style chords and syncopation to convey
carnival craze, etc.
Worksheets were also created to allow students to take notes and
bring home the key learnings of the lesson. Historical facts and
interesting trivia of the composer and his country of origin were also
provided to give a comprehensive overview of the music bring taught
and enhance the music appreciation process.
The fourth and final lesson provided an opportunity for students to
create a full artistic portfolio, which included a music appreciation
report and a reflective painting on the music. It was aimed to
combine the skills and techniques learnt in all previous lessons and
bridge the gap between music and art.
Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth Symphony were first introduced to buildon top of the discussion on motif and symbols in music, e.g. The
famous motif initiating the Fifth Symphony symbolising Beethoven's
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STUDENTS GUESSING WHAT IS BEING
DESCRIBED IN THE MUSIC
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Implementation and FinancialsEXHIBIT 8: IMPLEMENTATION CHART
EXHIBIT 9: DIVISION OF LABOUR
EXHIBIT 10: EXPENSE REPORT
Note: The promotion materials used on the Promotion Day were provided by the centres in Tin Shui Wai.
The cost of printing was negligible and the cost of transportation was omitted. All CDs were borrowed from
public libraries and worksheets were created without any aid from third parties.
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EXHIBIT 11: IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE
Online Promotion Materials
AcknowledgementsWe would like to express our sincere thanks to Ms. Packy Wong and the volunteers and staff of Pok Oi
Hospital for the kind arrangement so that we can implement this project successfully.
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