Community

English Leap Summer Camp

I have been partnering with the Society of Community Organization and i-learner Education Centre on this project. This 5-day English summer camp is created for children age 10 to 16 from low-income families. The camp is designed to build these children's confidence and interest in English, learn new life skills, and encourage them to set a goal for higher education as a way to break cross-generational poverty cycles. This project brings into focus sociolinguistic issues such as the unequal distribution of resources, power and inequality, and workable resolutions by youth empowerment. After the camp, the children are encouraged to enrol in free-of-charge English classes sponsored by commercial corporations and run by i-learner Education Centre.

Hong Kong Reads

I have been an advisor and speaker of this program. HK Reads is a registered charity aiming to promote English reading in local primary and secondary schools.


Baojing County, Hunan

Hunan

I was an expedition leader of a Hong Kong registered charity, China Education Association, which serves primary school children in the poverty-stricken areas in Hunan. Years ago, I led a team of 30 volunteers to go to Hunan for the program's annual expedition to research on ethnic minorities (Miao and Yao) village education as well as to monitor the Association's funding program which subsidied over 400 elementary school children each year. In Hong Kong, the association ran public exhibitions, publications, and Hong Kong school visits for fund-raising as well as for raising public awareness on primary education issues in China. The project is still continuing today and run by current volunteers, making it long-term and sustainable.

Hong Kong

I was a volunteer English teacher for new immigrant children at YWCA Western District Social Service Centre and the Society for Community Organization.

I was a Co-I in a project called "Visualizing the Voices of Women Migrant Workers in Hong Kong." Our programs include exhibition, video production workshops and screening, wellbeing and mindfulness workshops, panel talks. It was funded by HKU Knowledge Exchange Impact project fund 2016-2017. PI: Julie Ham of HKU sociology department.

Ann Arbor

I was a volunteer at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Safe House (Domestic Violence Project, Inc.), and Michigan Siamese Rescue (Animal Rescue).

Cambridge

I was a volunteer at Sue Ryder in Cambridge, England.