| Name of Organisation | Title of Project | Project Objective(s) | Activity Formats | Target Participants |
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One-year projects (12 projects) |
Gip Percussion Ensemble | Percussive Kids - APPS Children Ambassador Scheme | - To showcase children’s potential in music and arts;
- To enable children to broaden their horizons and express their creativity; and
- To let children showcase their music talents, share with others the fun of arts and promote various arts activities to young people in the territory.
| Talks, day camps, workshops, flash mob and carnival | Primary school students, parents and general public |
Green Come True (Hong Kong) Limited | Kid's Urban Eco-Guide Ambassador Training Program | To stimulate children’s potential, enhance their decision-making and problem-solving skills as well as raise their self-confidence through eco-guide training. | Workshops, field trips and eco-tours | Primary school students and parents |
Hong Kong Competence Education Research Institute | Happy Learning with STEM & PE | - To encourage children to participate in sports which are conducive to their physical and mental health; and
- To promote the healthy development of children through the making of game kits by parents and their children.
| Opening ceremony, experiential activities, online sports videos and game kit | Children (aged 3 – 5), primary and secondary school students (aged 6 – 17) and their parents |
Hong Kong PHAB Association | Caring for SEN & Community | - To support families of children with special educational needs (SEN), improve children’s attention, emotions and cognitive abilities;
- To strengthen parent-child communication and mutual understanding, and explore family strengths;
- To offer opportunities for parents to share their feelings and stress arising from taking care of their children; and
- To eliminate discrimination and barriers through interaction and exchange of experience between different groups of people.
| Group training activities and workshops | Primary school students with SEN and their parents |
Hong Kong Worldlink Funds Limited | Protecting and caring children’s physical, mental & spiritual wellbeing through love | - To teach children to understand how to protect their bodies, health and souls, to love and respect themselves and to raise their self-esteem;
- To help parents understand that they have the responsibility to let their children grow up in a healthy way and encourage parents to build a close relationship with their children; and
- To enhance teachers’ understanding of children's rights, empower them to teach students to cherish life and ask for help courageously, and reinforce students’ positive values.
| Talks, workshops, and sharing session | Primary 3 students, parents and teachers |
Methodist Epworth Village Community Centre, Social Welfare | “Art Journey with Children” Project | - To provide emotional support and establish a support network for parents of children with special educational needs (SEN);
- To enhance understanding of children with SEN of their personal emotions, enable them to learn how to handle negative emotions and build a positive self-image; and
- To enhance the community’s understanding of SEN and build a caring community.
| Art therapy sessions, art activities, parent-child arts groups/workshops and experiential activities | Children with SEN, their parents/family members and members of the community |
Oxfam Hong Kong | “I have right to speak” Community Education Theatre Project | - To enhance children’s self-confidence and sense of self-efficacy;
- To reinforce children’s sense of belonging to the community;
- To enhance children’s and public understanding of children’s rights; and
- To raise public awareness of listening to and respecting the voice of children.
| Workshops, drama training and performances | Children from low-income families, parents, education workers, social workers and general public |
Po Leung Kuk | Healthy Happy Kids – Multimedia Teaching Material Project | - To enhance primary school students’ understanding of play, emotions, interpersonal relationships and sports, and to strengthen teachers’ and parents’ understanding of the development of children’s physical and mental health; and
- To enhance public understanding of the development of children’s physical and mental health.
| Volunteer training, production and promotion of multi-media teaching materials | Primary school students, teachers, parents and general public |
Rhenish Church Grace School | I'm Ready for Primary One! | To share with parents and teachers the difficulties that pre-school students with special educational needs (SEN) entering Primary 1 may encounter and the effective ways to help them adapt to the new stage as soon as possible. | Production of interactive teaching kits and launching ceremony | Pre-school children with SEN entering Primary 1, parents and teachers of special child care centres |
S K H St Christopher's Nursery (Wan Chai) | Be a healthy and joyful kid | - To enhance public understanding of the importance of play to children and the ways to play different games; and
- To enhance public awareness on environmental protection and educate them on the use of different environmental-friendly materials in playing.
| Talk, workshop and carnival | Kindergarten and primary school students, parents and general public |
The Child Development Centre | CDC SEN -friendly Funfair | - To enhance public awareness of the early identification of children with special educational needs (SEN);
- To provide information and sources for assistance to families who are looking for SEN resources; and
- To strengthen the role of family and enhance support for pre-school students with SEN as well as their parents and caregivers.
| Funfairs including talks, workshops, game booths and developmental screening | Pre-primary children with SEN, their parents and general public |
Yo Neighborhood Services Company Limited | “My Friend, You are Lovely”– Cross-Cultural Children Support Scheme | - To enhance community’s understanding of and respect for ethnic minority (EM) culture and create a barrier-free growth environment;
- To help EM parents adapt to the lives in Hong Kong and promote the integration of their whole families into the society; and
- To improve EM children’s Chinese abilities to overcome the barriers in their daily communication and learning.
| Workshops, information pack, parent support groups and cross-cultural developmental activities | Chinese and EM primary school students, parents and general public |
Two-year projects (14 projects) |
Children's Museum Limited | Play-Learning Beyond Children's Discovery Museum | - To improve access for children to wide-ranging practical activities for child-initiated play at home;
- To enhance parents’ and caregivers’ understanding and knowledge of free play;
- To increase time allocated to meaningful child-led play-learning at home; and
- To promote the benefits of child-led play.
| Production of playkits and parents’ booklets | Children (aged 0 – 10), primary school students, parents, caregivers, educators, social workers and general public |
Creative Sports Association | Joyful Kids Shuffleboard Embrace Inclusion Program | - To enable students with special educational needs (SEN) to improve their physical fitness, enhance their social and emotional management skills, develop their interests and reduce their behavioural problems;
- To alleviate parents’ emotional stress from taking care of their SEN children; and
- To enable SEN students and ethnic minority (EM) students to integrate into their peer groups and enjoy their school life.
| Talks, training course and competition | Primary school students with SEN, EM students studying in primary schools and the parents of these SEN / EM students |
DADs Network Limited | Dream Jam Gym | - To cultivate and unleash the sports ability, attention and perseverance of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) through sports;
- To broaden parents’ principles and skills of raising and educating ADHD children; and
- To establish a mutual help online group and a support network among parents of ADHD children.
| Sports class, parents training class and online class | Children (aged 4 – 12) with ADHD and their parents |
InspiringHK Sports Foundation Limited | Sports For Development - Child Safeguarding Learning Platform | - To set up an online child safeguarding learning resource platform;
- To equip platform users with the knowledge and awareness of their roles and responsibilities in child safeguarding in a sports context;
- To empower the platform users to educate and inspire children on the knowledge of child safeguarding in sports to increase the children’s understanding of abuse and the way to protect themselves; and
- To increase public awareness and capacity in taking actions to prevent any form of child abuse in the sports context.
| Online platform, seminar and knowledge survey | Children, licensed / amateur sports coaches, social workers, school teachers and parents |
Louis Program Training Centre Company Limited | Alliance for Precious Children | - To help children with special educational needs (SEN) develop emotional management, communication and sensory skills;
- To help parents manage their emotions, master training skills and build harmonious families;
- To enhance knowledge and skills of the volunteers and promote mutual help; and
- To raise public awareness and build an inclusive community.
| Volunteer work training and service, talks, workshops, carnival, sensory and physical activities, parent-child activities, sharing sessions and production of booklet | Pre-school children with SEN, children (aged 7 – 16), parents and carers of children with SEN and general public |
Pentecostal Church of Hong Kong | SEN parents Cheer up! | - To enhance parents’ knowledge on the personality traits of children with special educational needs (SEN) and strengthen their skills for taking care of these children;
- To recognise the dedication of parents to their children; and
- To mitigate the labelling effect of the society on children with SEN.
| School and community talks, day camp, training programme, ceremony and book publishing | Children with SEN, parents and general public |
The Free Methodist Church of Hong Kong (Social Service Division) | 「愛」運動‧有「您」童行* | - To promote the idea of “healthy life starts with exercise”;
- To let participants learn how to manage their emotions and enhance their interpersonal skills; and
- To raise the participants’ self-confidence and sense of accomplishment, foster their positive thinking and deliver the message of mutual help.
| Short videos on exercise, training groups, voluntary service, health talks and exhibition | Primary 2 – 5 students with special educational needs, parents and relatives |
The Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights Limited | I Have a Say in Campus | - To promote children’s right to be heard and their right to participation under Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child;
- To encourage and support schools in conducting school-based activities to empower children in the exploration and decision making process in their school life; and
- To promote good practices of child participation with a wide community in Hong Kong.
| Publication of child participation guidebook, workshops, school-based activities and survey | Kindergarten, primary and secondary school students and teachers |
The Society for Truth and Light | Childhood with LOVE: Physical and Spiritual Protection for Infants | - To build a friendly and harmonious campus with home-school co-operation;
- To teach children the correct body boundaries and protect themselves;
- To produce supporting manuals to remind parents of the correct concept and teach parents how to help their children stay away from danger in a timely manner; and
- To strengthen parent-child relationship in a relaxing manner.
| Training sessions and production of teaching materials, sticker book, nursery rhymes video, educational video and parent handbook | Children (aged 4 – 7), parents and teachers |
The University of Hong Kong (Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine) | Educate the educators – Early identification & management of preschool children with special needs | - To educate preschool teaching staff on the early symptoms and signs of common developmental problems to facilitate early identification and referral for diagnosis and intervention;
- To provide practical tips for educators on how to facilitate the developmental skills of children with special educational needs (SEN); and
- To provide early and intensive training for parents of preschool children with SEN.
| Focus groups, workshops, talks and production of educational videos | Preschool educators, preschool children (aged 2 – 6) with SEN attending nurseries/ kindergartens and their parents |
The Urban Peacemaker Evangelistic Fellowship Limited | Kids-sharing with joy community | - To nurture in young people a spirit of caring for the community, to enhance their communication skills and recognise their personal value;
- To provide opportunities for exchange between local and ethnic minority children, to establish a platform for children’s participation through mutual discussion, and to enhance their skills to express their thoughts and feelings.
| Volunteer training, workshops, and inclusion experience activities | Secondary school students / youths (aged 12 – 18), children from low-income families / of ethnic minority (aged 3 – 12) and general public |
United Christian Medical Service Nursery School | Child Play, Play Together | - To inspire young children’s creativity and problem-solving skills through strengthening the free exploration elements in games according to their developmental needs;
- To enhance young children’s positive emotions and sense of happiness through the process of playing;
- To enable parents to experience the positive influence of play on young children’s development and cultivation of sense of happiness, and improve parent-child relationship; and
- To raise public awareness of the importance of play in the healthy development of children.
| Training workshops for parents, game booths and promotion activities in social media | Young children (aged 2 – 6), teachers, parents and general public |
Wofoo Leaders' Network Limited | The Little KOL Training Programme | - To provide children with opportunities to explore, express themselves and unleash their potential;
- To enable children to understand the society and cultivate positive values; and
- To connect all sectors of the society to care about and support the development of children.
| Volunteer training, workshops, live webcasts, competitions, and sharing / concluding session | Primary 4 – 6 students, tertiary students (volunteer groups), parents and general public |
Yan Oi Tong Lau Wong Fat Kindergarten | “Being with you” project | - To relieve the stress of parents / carers of children with special educational needs (SEN);
- To help establish a support network among parents of children with SEN; and
- To promote a culture of understanding, care and respect for children with SEN and their parents.
| Parent talk, mobile application, parent group, story theatre, group training, day camp and exhibition | Children (aged 2 – 6) with SEN, parents / carers of children with SEN and general public |