PROGRAMS IN NEED OF VOLUNTEERS
COVID-19 Relief: Packing Care Packages for families in Hung Hom
The program is made possible through a generous sponsorship from Moody's. Description: More than 20% of our population lives in poverty, surviving on less than HK$4,000 each month and was struggling to make ends meet even before this pandemic. Now, with many of them living in fear and having their livelihoods impacted, they are in more dire need than ever. Part of the burden on children and youth in Hong Kong and their families (and the community centres acting as their lifeline), can be eased through the provision of relief Care Packages. Each pack will last a household for one week. Volunteer roles: Volunteers will receive a short briefing and protective gear (masks, gloves, and hand sanitizers) upon arriving at the community centre. Volunteers will help to sort and assemble Care Package items including essential food and hygiene items for 40 Care Packages. Please be aware of the service involves heavy lifting. Volunteer safety: Centre staff and volunteers will adopt HandsOn Hong Kong COVID-19 safety precautions in-line with Centre for Health Protection guidelines. If you have any questions regarding this service, please directly email to hohk@handsonhongkong.org 活動簡介：超過20％的人口生活在貧困中，每月靠少於4,000港元生存，他們甚至在疫情之前都在努力維持生計。 現在，由於他們許多人生活在恐懼中並且生計受到影響，這些人比以往任何時候都更加迫切需要幫忙。 提供物資可以減輕香港兒童及其家庭（以及為其提供服務的社區中心）的部分負擔。 每份物資包將支援一個家庭一週的生活所需。 義工角色： 每位義工抵達中心之時，中心工作人員將會提供指引及相關保護物品（口罩、手套及酒精搓手液）。 在自我保護裝備完成之後，義工將幫忙將遞送物資分裝入袋，合共包裝40個物資包。 請注意此服務涉及重物搬運。 義工安全： 中心及義工遵守COVID-19預防措施指引。 如有任何查詢，請直接電郵至 hohk@handsonhongkong.org
Hung Hom, Kowloon
10/12/20 15:30
Doing handmade activities with elderly in Central
Description: With most of Hong Kong’s elderly self-isolating due to the pandemic, their daily lives and personal network have been greatly affected. Through doing traditional handmade activities together, the elderly individuals can use their self experiences and skills to share their life experiences and the history of Central and Western district with the volunteers. This strengthens the community connectedness and encourages cross-generation communications. Volunteer roles: Volunteers will join the handmade tutorial classes with the elderly and make flower baskets (on Dec 1st), clay bowls (on Dec 8th & 15th) or traditional snacks (on Jan 12th) together. Volunteers will then form groups with the elderly individuals to play games and do the sharing. Volunteer safety: Centre staff and volunteers will adopt HandsOn Hong Kong COVID-19 safety precautions in-line with Centre for Health Protection guidelines. If you have any questions regarding this service, please directly email to hohk@handsonhongkong.org All volunteers who attend this activity must be registered with HandsOn Hong Kong. If you wish to have a friend or family member join you on this activity, they must first register with HandsOn and sign up for the activity.
Central, Hong Kong Island
15/12/20 15:00 + more
Family Opportunity: Film a video greeting for an elderly living in care-home
Description: Throughout the crisis, HandsOn volunteers have played an important role in providing emotional support and social connection to Hong Kong's isolated elderly—whose well-being has been at great risk throughout the crisis. We now invite volunteers and families to film a caring video message that can be shown to the resident of an elderly care home. These videos deliver greetings and encouragement and will be given as a gift to elderly. In a one-to-four minute video, volunteers are invited to introduce themselves and share words of season's greetings, warmth and positivity, letting the recipient know that the community cares about them. Volunteer Roles: We will ask each volunteer to film a 1 to 4 minute video with a short self- introduction, greetings/blessings for the elderly and ending by sharing their blessings and good wishes. Volunteers are welcome to include a short story, poem, song or performance! Video format: mp4, m4v, mov, avi, wmv Please see an example and guidelines here: https://youtu.be/_GzqEJzDRKc By December 9th, 2020, HandOn team will send a link for participating volunteers to upload your videos. You will need to upload your videos to our drive by December 20th, 2020. The greeting videos will be sent to Pilot Scheme on Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council Multi-disciplinary Outreaching Support Teams for the Elderly(Kowloon East) All volunteers who attend this activity must be registered with HandsOn Hong Kong. If you wish to have a friend or family member join you on this activity, they must first register with Hands On and sign up for the activity.
Hong Kong
20/12/20 8:00
Youth Empowered Opportunity: Creating Christmas cards for refugee children
"Jockey Club Community Sustainability Fund - Youth Empowered Project 賽馬會社區持續抗逆基金 – 見「義」勇為青年義工計劃" Funded by: 捐助機構: Description: Christmas is the season of love and blessing. Yet, for Hong Kong's asylum seeking children daily life in Hong Kong is challenging as their families deal with the ongoing trauma that led them to flee their home country and they wait for their refugee applications to be processed. Due to the COVID-crisis they now cannot go to school, exchange Xmas cards or spend time with their friends. Having had to self-isolate for much of this year, their mental health may be at stake. Help from the city’s volunteers is needed to send love and blessings to these vulnerable children, who are in need of social connection and care for their emotional well-being. Volunteer roles: · Grab some plain cards or thick paper – we ask each volunteer to provide 5 Xmas cards. · Write a message and decorate on each card to share support, blessings and good wishes over Christmas and New Year (in English and/or with some Chinese words). Bear in mind these will be received by the refugee children. · Feel free to be creative and have some fun with this! Get as colourful as you like to help make the recipient's day. · You will need to mail your cards to the HandsOn team on or before December 15th, 2020. · We will email participating volunteers to provide the delivery address and date by which we need your cards for delivering to households. Volunteers will receive a detailed service reminder email on or before December 7th, 2020.
Christian Action, Virtual Volunteering (Virtual)
13/12/20 7:00
Youth Empowered Opportunity: Help refugee children with their homework via Zoom
"Jockey Club Community Sustainability Fund - Youth Empowered Project 賽馬會社區持續抗逆基金 – 見「義」勇為青年義工計劃" Funded by: 捐助機構: Description: Refugees are a marginalized group in Hong Kong as they are unable to work and gain a decent income to serve the basic needs for them and their families. For most of the refugee children, after-school activities and tutoring that develop abilities and build self-confidence and social skills are an inaccessible luxury. During the COVID-crisis a number of children have fallen behind with their studies. Our student leaders are calling for young people with the passion and skills to provide a virtual tutoring session on Saturdays for refugee children who are 6 - 12 years old. These Zoom sessions will support them with their Chinese, English, Maths or General Studies homework, depending on the priority for that week. Volunteer roles: · Volunteers will be working in a pair to provide homework support to a child through Zoom. · Each volunteer pair will be added to a WhatsApp chat group 1-2 days before that Saturday’s session. · 2:1 homework support will be provided through Zoom with each group being allocated to their own break-out room, managed by our 'Youth Empowered' volunteer leaders. · We encourage volunteers to sign up for more than two weeks to provide continuous support to these children.
Christian Action, Virtual Volunteering (Virtual)
12/12/20 16:00 + more
Youth Opportunities: Preparing food ingredients and meal boxes in Harvest Mill
Description: Food Angel is a food rescue and food assistance program with the mission of "Waste Not, Hunger Not, With Love". The program rescues edible surplus food from different sectors of the food industry that would otherwise be disposed of as waste. Following strict safety protocols, the rescued food items will then be prepared as nutritious hot meals in their central kitchens and be redistributed to serve the underprivileged communities in Hong Kong. In this activity, volunteers will be helping prepare food ingredients and meal boxes. All of the above are non-cooking duties All volunteers who attend this activity must be registered with HandsOn Hong Kong. If you wish to have a friend or family member join you on this activity, they must first register with Hands On and sign up for the activity.
Kwun Tong, Kowloon
23/12/20 14:30 + more
Youth Opportunity: Deliver Necessities and Warmth to Homeless in Fortress Hill
Description: On this Fortress Hill Kindness Walk, you will be serving roughly 18 homeless individuals and a large community of elderly and street cleaners. ImpactHK’s aim for these walks is to build trust through kindness. As a charity, they are on the streets at least once per day and their focus on building friendships is giving people a true second chance. From this Fortress Hill kindness walk, ImpactHK has placed homeless individuals in homes with employment at their centre, The Guestroom. In order to sustain housing and job creation initiatives by ImpactHK, we encourage each participant to donate $100 or more. This walk takes roughly one hour and finishes near the North Point MTR. This is a child-friendly kindness walk. Parental guidance is required for volunteers under the age of 16. Remarks: Volunteers who age below 16 years old and above 10 years old want to join this service, a guardian should sign up to this activity. After successful registration, please send an email to hohk@handsonhongkong.org to enquire for the availability. All volunteers who attend this activity must be registered with HandsOn Hong Kong. If you wish to have a friend or family member join you on this activity, they must first register with HandsOn and sign up for the activity.
North Point, Hong Kong Island
9/12/20 19:00 + more
Youth opportunity: Help at Food Station in Lai Chi Kok
Description: Food Angel is a food rescue and food assistance program with the mission of "Waste Not, Hunger Not, With Love". The program rescues edible surplus food from different sectors of the food industry that would otherwise be disposed of as waste. Following strict safety protocols, the rescued food items will then be prepared as nutritious hot meals in their central kitchens and be redistributed to serve the underprivileged communities in Hong Kong. In this activity, volunteers will be helping prepare and sort the raw vegetables at the Food Station only, e.g. cutting away the yellowish parts, which will be transferred to the kitchens for cooking on another day. If you want to prepare food ingredients and meal boxes, or help serve hot meals to beneficiaries in the Central Kitchens, please enrol directly on Food Angel Website. All volunteers who attend this activity must be registered with HandsOn Hong Kong. If you wish to have a friend or family member join you on this activity, they must first register with Hands On and sign up for the activity.
Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon
21/12/20 9:00 + more
