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| Happy to be a Volunteer | |
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Though not tall in build, Sina has a loud and resonant voice. As soon as she walked into HER Fund's office and started talking, her enthusiastic voice instantly dispelled the stiffness brought by the humid and cloudy weather. |
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Being Discretional in Life
Being a freelancer teaching Chinese Mandarin, Sina
has been a volunteer at HER Fund for years. Back in 2007, she helped out at a
fundraising event through the Agency for Volunteer Service. Ever since then,
Sina has been squeezing her time to come to HER Fund's office and assist the
staff in some administrative work, including some clerical work, managing the
database and mailing publications. |
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In fact, Sina gained a lot in her volunteer work. During the past three years,
she has developed a clear concern on gender issue. "I think Hong Kong people are
still affected by old-fashioned thought, that women and men do not enjoy equal
rights in this society...... Like my father, he regards men more superior than
women." Sina explained further, "in Hong Kong, women suffer from
discriminations, both in households and at work. Women are as good as men in
doing many works now. However, they usually get paid less than men in respect of
the same job." What she elaborated is exactly why HER Fund is here to fight for
the gender equality. |
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Having Fun at Work
When asked how she has persisted in volunteering for years, Sina said, "I just want to have fun." Because of Sina's flexible
working hours, she could hardly meet up with other friends. Her positive
attitude allows her regarding volunteering as a kind of entertainment. "You
accompany other people, but at the same time others keep you company too!"
said Sina.
"To be honest, the work I do isn't very demanding," Sina claimed. "Every time I
come over for an hour or two, so they won't assign me really difficult tasks,
such as helped in some surveys," Sina giggled, still speaking loudly with great
energy, "If they gave me too much work, would I manage it? Maybe I could not
contribute and even cause HER fund trouble!" |
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"You really don't need to 'persist' in volunteering."
Sina suggested. "As long as you don't treat it as a serious job, you won't
feel pressured. If I were asked to come at inconvenient time, I don't
bother to come at all." Being light-hearted truly helped her to "persist"
in volunteering for all these years.
In fact, Sina's attitude in life - her striving to create
a personal space for herself, her self-determination and acting for herself -
are exactly what we hope all women can achieve for themselves. We are truly
grateful for Sina deciding to work with us. We have also benefited a great
deal from the positive energy and contributions of volunteers like Sina
walking along our way towards gender equality.
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| Press Conference of Cyber Dating Research held | |
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One of the young girls' projects which HER Fund supported last year was Cyber Dating Research, organized by YMCA Kornhill Centre Integrated Service Centre. The project is to research on the social behaviour of the young girls on the internet. Young girls formed a group through this action research process and held their press conference on 17th July this year. The project provided an empowering experience to the young girls involved, through which they aware of their rights, they decided what is best for them, they made their voices heard and they became enthusiastic to be an active change agent in the community. The girls hosted the press conference and announced the findings, their concerns and recommendations which were expressed in the report. |
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The research has three findings: (1) Girls expressed that online relationship and making friends can compensate their social needs as they find that it is very difficult to build trustful and genuine friendship in their social life; (2) girls are not necessarily the ones who are being cheated although they cannot deny there are risks exist in internet friendship; (3) Girls suggested ten smart tips to protect one's own safety and enjoy online friendship. They stressed that both boys and girls need to be careful of any internet trap. The
press conference was led by the young girls' group. They hosted the press
conference, performed a drama to announce the research result, being the
spokespersons to make their recommendations and shared their cases with the
media. Linda To, HER Fund Executive Director, also delivered a speech to
express HER Fund's support and appreciation to the girls effort and
achievement, and at the same time, introduced our other funded young girls'
projects to the media. Over ten mass media came to interview and to publish
the study report, this include Oriental Daily and Sing Tao Daily.
The RTHK programme in Radio 2 invited the girls who participated in the research to the 9th July episode. If you want to listen to the episode, you may
click here. |
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| Volunteering by Talents Sharing | |
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Most common way of volunteering is to help
carrying out different types of work in NGOs, such as flag selling, assisting
outdoor activities and services, or helping clerical works in the organization,
just like what Sina does for HER Fund. In recent years, some professionals from
business sector help NGOs to develop community enterprise or running business.
In HER Fund,
we have our Talent Sharing Teachers, Eliza, Kitty and Juliet,
who share their talents in our line dance classes and the fees from our students
go to HER Fund as donation for making grants to support women and girls' rights
work. This volunteering by talent sharing started since April last year. In our last
Issue, we wrote about these three ladies' stories. Here you can listen to
RTHK
Radio 2 programme interviewing them (only in
Cantonese) |
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| 2010-11 Young Girls projects re-grant approved | |
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Young Girls
re-grant program has come to the 4th year with the support from our
partner women's fund, Mama Cash. 2010-11 Young Girls projects re-grant were
approved. They are "Gender Awareness Raising in Christian Community", held by A
Generation, and ""My Space" Community Education Project", held by YMCA Kornhill
Centre Integrated Service Centre. The aim of Gender Awareness Raising in
Christian Community Project is to empower young girls within the Christian
community to share their views and experiences on gender equality within the
current church practices and context. It aims to understand the role and status
of young girls in the church under the gender lenses and through workshops,
direct opinions from young girls will be collected in order to compile a report
for making young girls' voices heard. The aim of ""My Space" Community Education Project" is to empower young girls in
the Cyber Friendship Group to become ambassadors and share their views and
recommendations towards online friendship with students, parents, teachers and
community people. This project is a follow up action after they completed the
study on young girls Cyber Dating Research last year. |
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| Let's dance together | |
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Dancing and HER
Fund has been together since last year ! We have Eliza, Kitty and Juliet sharing
their talents by teaching in our fundraising line dance classes, Mandy and Roni
our voluntary yoga teachers for our yoga classes. A big thank you for their
contribution of their talents in raising donations for a good cause as the
entire tuition fees are donated to HER Fund. Now, Klub Raks is our new supporting partner.
Klub Raks is going to hold a Raks Unregulated Cocktail Party on 11th September, 2010 (Saturday) at 7:00pm in Causeway Bay. It is not only a belly dance/ dance fusion showcase, more, an international famous dancer, Karim Nagi will also perform in the showcase. All tickets sold by HER Fund will be donated to us. We are very grateful to Klub Raks for their generous support. The details of
the party are as follows: It is a chance for all of you to dance and to do good deeds. What you get in this party is not only fun and enjoyment, but also a chance to support women and girls' right and well being. Here, let's dance together! Please phone us at 2794 1100 or email: info@herfund.org.hk for purchasing tickets and enquiry. |
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| A Holistic, Peaceful Journey of Karma Yoga - class for all levels | |
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Mandy and Roni are two happy yoga teachers. They share their talents on
voluntary basis for HER Fund. They love to share the miraculous experience of
yoga with you. Come and join them on this ride. |
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| Belly Dance in September | |
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Our heartfelt appreciation to Devi for sharing her talents as our belly dance
voluntary teacher September class will start on 6th . The details are
as follows: |
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| 7th HER Fund Annual General Meeting |
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HER Fund's 7th Annual General Meeting will be held on 18th September, 2010 (Saturday) at 2:00pm at HER Fund's office (Room C01, 13/F, Hang Cheong Factory Building, 1 Wing Ming Street, Cheung Sha Wan). You are welcome to attend the meeting. |
| HER Communication Officer is with us now! | |
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HER Fund has recently employed our part-time Communication Officer, Ms Venus Hung to help the development of the Fund's communication work. Venus is experienced in media communication and working with welfare ngos. With her professional inputs and commitment, HER Fund will definitely strengthen our communication work and broaden our networking with the community. |
| Internship Completed |
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Our intern, Shanshan-Xu has finished her two-month internship and return to her home town Sichuan. She will then go to Japan for further exchange and after that, back to U.S.A to continue her study. Thank you for her contribution to HER Fund which brought us lots of new energy and inspiration! |
| Be Our Talent Sharing Teacher (TST) for a good cause |
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From the
successful experience of the line dance classes, yoga classes and belly dance
classes, TST is a great way of volunteering in HER Fund! You can be our TST to
help raising funds for a women rights cause! You can share your talents and your
specialty, such as cake bakery, handicraft works, teaching musical instrument,
or anything that you can name, and spare one or two hours a week to teacher for
HER Fund on a voluntary basis, then all the tuition fees will come as donation
to HER Fund to support women and girls' rights work. Share your talents, have
fun with your students and doing good deeds … all in one go in HER Fund!
If you are interested in being HER Fund
Talent Sharing teacher, please contact us at 2794 1100. |
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HER Fund is a member of the International Network of
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