More than 100 University of Hong Kong student volunteers pledged to serve the community at a send-off ceremony for Service 100 Summer Programs on May 23.
Service is a core value at HKU. As a main theme of HKU centennial celebrations, Service 100 aims to reaffirm a commitment to build a better world. Under the program, students will take up initiatives and engage in service activities to improve human conditions. This summer, 300-plus students will organize and participate in activities to ease poverty, fight HIV/AIDS, promote gender equality, ensure environmental sustainability and advocate social harmony and world peace.
At the ceremony, students introduced their projects. Besides serving Hong Kong, many will set off to 20 destinations, including Ghana, Chile, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka to build emergency houses, bridges and latrines, teach transferable employment skills and install flood-protection devices.
A professor commissioned the student volunteers by presenting them with HKU service packs. Each pack contains a towel, cap, water bottle and other items to assist and protect the students on their service journeys.
University of Hong Kong
(May 26, 2011)
Grasping the challenge: students reach for roles in 'building a better world'.
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