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Child Development Fund Sixth Batch NGO Operated Project (Hong Kong Island):

Step Up 6 – Life Guiding Project

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Operating NGO:

Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service

Room 1501-1505, 15/F, Lancashire Centre, No. 361 Shau Kei Wan Road, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong

Hong Kong East Family Development Services Centre

Project highlights:

  • Recognise and reward mentors for attending all training programmes and maintaining monthly contact with their mentees
  • Launch a subsidy scheme to support families who cannot achieve the monthly savings target due to temporary cash flow problems
  • Set up a hotline to provide counsel and support to parents and mentors
  • Create CDF website, Facebook and WhatsApp groups to strengthen the communications with all stakeholders, including participants, their parents and mentors

Activities at a glance:

For participating children
  • Financial management workshop
  • Social skills training
  • Community services
  • Trainings on self-understanding, life planning, personal development and career guidance
For parents / guardians
  • Financial management workshop
  • Parenting skills seminar
  • Life planning seminar
For mentors
  • Training related to roles and responsibilities of mentors, youth developmental needs, communication skills, life planning and relationship with parents
  • Sharing and gathering for mentors

Target recruitment number:

100

Application deadline for participants and mentors (Quotas are available on a "first-come, first-served" basis):

28 February 2017

Enquiry and application:

Telephone : 3188 9004
Email : cdf@bokss.org.hk

For more information please refer to the Project Leaflet and Website.

Mentor recruitment

The "Step Up 6 – Life Guiding" project welcomes applications from those who meet the following criteria:

  • Aged 21 or above, with Form 5 education level or above
  • Having integrity, strong moral principles and a sense of responsibility
  • Commit to youth work and the three-year project
  • No criminal record in Hong Kong or overseas(Mentors are required to complete and submit the "Declaration of (Non) Conviction of Offence")
  • Meet your mentee at least once a month
  • Completion of the basic mentor training programme
  • Willing to work under supervision of Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service
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