SHKP Quarterly

SHKP Volunteer Team helps low-income households in transition homes improve living environment 集團義工隊協助社會房屋低收入家庭提升居住環境 SHKP-Kwoks' Foundation-sponsored students from across the country meet up 全國新地郭氏基金受助學生聚首 The SHKP Volunteer Team leverages its corporate expertise to serve the community. The team recently participated in a clean-up at Green Garden, which is a social housing project under the Community Housing Movement, launched by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. The SHKP volunteers joined hands with Green Garden’s service operator, Yan Oi Tong, and residents to work on various tasks, including installing solar-powered lamps, removing silt, branches and roots to prevent clogged drains, and cleaning the common area. The work has helped improve the residents’ living environment and enabled them to show support and care for each other. Meanwhile, the SHKP Volunteer Team put in over 130,000 hours of service in 2018. These efforts brought them the second runner up award in the 2018 Highest Service Hour Award (Private Organizations – Category 1) from the Social Welfare Department. This is the 10th consecutive year the team was ranked among the top three. The SHKP Volunteer Team removes roots extending to the raised platform and near the drains in Green Garden to prevent clogged drains and cracks in the raised platform 集團義工隊前往綠苑，協助清理地台及水渠口的樹根，以 免阻塞渠道或導致地台爆裂 Since its establishment nearly 20 years ago, the SHKP- Kwoks' Foundation has set up and sponsored over 60 projects, with beneficiaries in over 20 provinces and cities across the country. It has donated more than RMB700 million, and close to 9,000 beneficiaries have since completed their undergraduate studies. Recently, the Foundation held an exchange event, co- organized with Nanjing University, for inter-university alumni and teachers, which included a seminar, workshop and alumni networking under the theme ‘The Functions of the SHKP-Kwoks' Foundation Alumni Association and its Initiatives’. Close to 100 participants from 20 institutions took part. The event lined up sponsored students from different cities, institutions and year of study to prepare to set up the SHKP-Kwoks' Foundation Inter-university Alumni Association and drive charity initiatives. 新地郭氏基金成立近 20 年來，成立和資助項目超 過 60 個，受惠人士遍及全國 20 多個省市，捐贈資 金逾人民幣七億元，已畢業的受助本科學生總數 近 9,000 人。 SHKP-Kwoks' Foundation Director Terry Li (front, sixth right) with teachers and students from 20 institutions at the exchange for inter-university alumni and teachers 新地郭氏基金總監李家華（前排，右六）與 20 所院校的師生出席“聯校校友及老師交流活動” 集團義工隊多年來善用企業專 長，服務社區。日前，為香港社 會服務聯會營運的“社會房屋共 享計劃”下的社會房屋“綠苑” 進行大清潔。集團義工連同綠苑 的營運機構仁愛堂及相關居民， 進行了多項工作，包括安裝太陽 能燈、清理淤泥、樹枝和樹根， 防止渠道淤塞，以及清洗公眾區 域等。活動不但協助居民提升居 住環境，也讓他們發揮互助、友 愛精神。 另外，集團義工隊憑借在 2018 年 度逾 130,000 服務小時，獲社會 福利署頒發“ 2018 年最高服務時 數獎（私人團體 — 組別一）” 季軍，連續第 10 年獲最高服務時 數獎前三名。 基金日前聯合南京大學舉行“聯校校友及老師交流活動”，以“新地 郭氏基金校友會的功能與推動工作”為主題，舉辦了研討會、工作坊 及校友聯誼活動，參與院校共 20 所，與會者近 100 人。這次活動把來 自不同城市、院校及年級，曾接受基金資助的學生聚在一起，為發展 “新地郭氏基金聯校校友會”及推動慈善工作做好準備。 27