I spent one year as the International Service Director of the Rotaract Club of HKUST. Over this period, I helped organise multiple community service initiatives and led a service project. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rotary Pi: A program to teach lower SES children robotics skills through the Raspberry Pi device, upskilling them for the future and reducing the digital divide. We provided a safe place for these children to stay during the day as both of their parents would often be at work, and ensured that they didn't fall behind their more advantaged peers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- URA 学建关爱 @ 科大扶青: Many low income households end up messy as furniture and storage is low on the list compared to the other pressing needs that they have. This was a program where we visited lower income families to find specific home needs and created handmade bespoke wooden furniture to solve them. My case was a family which didn't have enough storage space in their home, but also desperately needed a study space for their daughter. We ended up creating a shelf with a stowable tabletop just like on an airplane.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jockey Club "Start with Soap" Empowerment Project Activity where we recruited HKUST students to learn how to recycle bars of soap, and hosted training workshops for them to understand the distribution network of a Phillipines based NGO. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------International Service Trip to Malaysia: As International Service Director, my job was to lead the annual International Service trip. My responsibilities included: In charge of organising an 8 service trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 20 HKUST students. Developed itinerary by reaching out to native community homestay building social enterprise in Malaysia. Liaised with sister club members in the University of Nottingham, Kuala Lumpur to arrange transport and accommodation. Collected participant information to ensure safety by purchasing travel insurance plans and coordinating dietary needs and health concerns.

With the HKUST Student Social Service Society, we organised activities for four consecutive saturdays at the Wai Ji Christian Service, Mei Tin Integrated Rehabilitation Services Center. This rehabilitation center was a place for people with Down syndrome to have a place to be safe space to live and go about their lives learning and having fun. However, providing this care is a labour intensive process, so in order to relieve some of the burden from caretakers, we scheduled weekly afternoon events were we would come in and play group games with the residents. We quickly found that the residents were actually very talkative, with some very distinct and quirky personalities. Apart from making sure to cater for their sensory needs, I found that playing with the residents was the same as playing with anyone else. Some of the activities we played included origami, towel folding, ball tossing, introductions, and more. The most memorable moment for me was when one of the residents talked with me. At the time, I had just returned to Hong Kong, and my Cantonese was still very poor. However, I still ended up in a long discussion wehre I found out we had a shared love for planes. I then found a piece of A4 paper and made the most beautiful origami paper plane that I knew how to make, and gifted it to him. The joy on his face when playing with it truly warmed my heart, and reminded me of something I would do when I was younger. We really weren't all that different him and I.