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

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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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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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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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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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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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GBUS 2020 Public Service Project - Final Report