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ANNUAL REPORT 2011 // 33
Helping the community
Since 2002, the HIT Community Caring Group (“CCG”)
has conducted self-funded programmes in Kwai Tsing
and Tsuen Wan districts in Hong Kong to reach out to
the elderly, and the mentally and physically challenged.
Working closely with the HWL Volunteer Team and
the Yan Chai Hospital Group, CCG regularly organises
outdoor activities, visits, festival celebration parties,
and house cleaning services for the elderly people.
YICT volunteers visited Welfare Centre residents
YICT teamed up with the Chi Heng Foundation, a Hong Kong charity
organisation, to host a Shenzhen visit for children from AIDS families
in Central China
HIT CCG members visited elderly people living in the Kwai Tsing District
Members of HIT’s Community Care Group, together with
their own children, joined the elderly in making cakes
The YICT Volunteer Group, established in 1998, has 204
registered members who provide services at Yantian
District communities. As an active member of the Yantian
Volunteer Association, the volunteer group has taken part
in various volunteer activities, including seashore clean-up
drives, blood donations, clothes donations, tree planting,
and visiting orphans at the Children’s Welfare Institution.
YICT has been honoured on numerous occasions for its
commitment to charity work, most recently in September
2011 at the “Caring for the Elderly Month” kick-off and
the “Elderly Caring and Respecting” Model Families
Honouring Ceremony held at the Yantian District Social
Welfare Centre.