Community Service

HI Friends! 「聲」「聲」相惜

Program Details
Date
9 & 16 Apr 2017
Location
Choi Hung
Collaborator
Hong Kong Association of the Deaf
No. of Volunteers
17
No. of Service Recipients
17
UN Sustainable Development Goals
HKUST CONNECT SDG GOALS
Having fun

Mrs Choi Ma Oi Kuen Public Service Leadership Program Award (PSL) is a year-long development program which aims to develop students' leadership skills and a sense of social commitment through training and social service project.

One of the Public Service Leaders (PSLs) partnered with Hong Kong Association of the Deaf to launch a service project for hearing impaired people (HIP) to communicate with university students. Through interacting with the HIP in mass games and handicraft-making sessions, volunteers became more aware of the difficulties that HIP might encounter while showing care and support.

Volunteers and HIP having mass game together
Volunteers and HIP having mass game together
Volunteer assisting HIP in making handicrafts
Volunteer assisting HIP in making handicrafts

Student Sharing

雖然這不是我第一次接觸聽障人士,Connect 卻給予我一次新鮮的聽障人士的服務經驗。服務對象除了有小朋友之外,更有其他年齡階層的人,每個年齡階層也有不同的需要和手語的程度,這讓我學會更多跟他們溝通的技巧。若再有機會,我會再主動接觸有不同需要的人士。

Fung Kwan Ting

SBM, Year 1

參加完「Hi Friends!「聲」「聲」相惜」,最大的感觸是見到一班小朋友和老人家即使身體有不方便的地方,但依照笑容滿臉地和義工們一齊玩遊戲和做手工,樂觀和笑容是這次義工活動給予我的最大回報。手語學習也是對我非常新奇的部分。

Holly Choi

SBM, Year 2