The Social Service Projects Scheme encourages students to self-design and partake in social services, followed by rigorous reflection. The whole cause enhances people’s well-being and the participating students' personal growth. In the last academic year, subsidies over HK$400,000 were approved for 13 projects after the screening by a panel comprising numerous professors and the Director of this Centre. The projects covered a wide range of beneficiaries and concerned areas. Below is a brief account:
Name | Objective |
| Local (nine projects) |
Rare Human Library - Life Story Programme | Writing biographies for the rare disease patients to reshape their unique life experiences |
Rare Disease Exhibition and Talk | Instilling secondary school students with knowledge about rare diseases and related issues |
Young at Heart Ambassador Scheme | Alleviating children’s stress under the pandemic |
Online Community Physical and Mental Health Scheme | Providing Chinese medical consultation for the underprivileged and reducing their medical burden |
SEN With You | Enhancing the grassroots’ awareness of Special Education Need |
UniSophy | Providing learning support and career guidance for secondary students |
Connecting Our Hearts | Providing voluntary teaching for primary students of low-income families and offering eye check to elderly |
Grief Me Light | Helping people to cope with grief and promoting death-related issue to the general public |
Everyone could be Anyone's Peers | Promoting peer support to mentally-ill persons and enhancing public awareness of mental health issue |
| Mainland (four projects) |
2022 Fujia Zhanjiang Voluntary Teaching Project | Providing voluntary teaching and organising activities for left-behind children |
2022 Fujia Shenzhen Project* | Providing voluntary teaching and after class activities for migrant children |
2022 Fujia Quanzhou Spring Project* | Organising learning camp for children whose parents are prisoners |
2022 Fujia Yunnan Flame Project* | Providing voluntary teaching for children who live in remote areas |
*Projects either withdrawn on the teams’ own or cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
This Centre now invites applications for funding support under the Social Service Projects Scheme of this academic year. Details are as follows:
Eligibility
CUHK students, student groups or university units (projects must be initiated by students)
Service Nature
Projects could take place in Hong Kong, the Mainland or overseas, but must be of own devising.
Important Dates
Two rounds of vetting are available. Please take note of the following schedule when submitting applications.
| Application Deadline | Earliest Project Start Date | Maximum Funding Approved per Team |
Vetting Round 1 | 1 November 2022 | 17 December 2022 | HK$20,000 |
Vetting Round 2 | 28 March 2023 | 25 May 2023 | HK$100,000 |
To equip students with competence in rendering social services, this Centre organises training activities every round. The most recent one, namely “Workshop of Practice cum Sharing Session” conducted via Zoom on the 15th of March, was tailored for applicants of the second round’s scheme of the last academic year. Not only did participants learn about the skills of proposal writing, they also got the chance to hear the experience of “Love·Care·Boundaryless”, one of the outstanding teams funded by this scheme, on providing service for the asylum seekers in Hong Kong. Participants actively engaged in this event and raised questions enthusiastically.
As for the first training activity in this academic year, students who are going to apply for the first round’s funding are required to participate in it. Since the latter part of this activity will feature the outstanding team in the previous I·CARE Social Service Projects Scheme on their service experience, other students are welcomed to join it. Details are as follows:
Date: 11 October 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Content:
Tips for writing proposals to apply for subsidies
Sharing of the team “Young at Heart Ambassador Scheme” on reducing children’s stress through outreach service
Format: Zoom Meeting (the link will be sent to successful registrants via email)
Language: Cantonese (supplemented with English)
Registration: Please click here
Kindly visit here for more information about the Social Service Projects Scheme. If there is any enquiry, you may contact Miss Chan of this Centre at 3943 9860 (Tel) or rachelchan@cuhk.edu.hk (Email).