Flag selling for singleton elderly (20 September 2003)

To raise fund for the Elder Ring and personal emergency link service, five of our volunteers joined others to participate in the flag day for Senior Citizen Home Safety Association.

After providing haircutting service for the psychiatric patients in Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, three bus captains of NWFB visited the elderly centre of Care & Services at North Point and Tsuen Wan to cut hair for some 20 elderly. Their commitment to serve on their day-off has been reported in the media and sets a role model for all volunteers.

Despite the bad weather outside, 27 volunteers played games and enjoyed shows with over 200 elderly at the the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration organized by YWCA Ming Yue Elderly Community Centre.

Since Atypical Pneumonia poses an unprecedented crisis to Hong Kong citizens, NWS Volunteer Alliance feels strongly obliged to help prevent people from contracting the virus. We joined Hong Kong Red Cross in its Campaign for Helping the Vulnerable and the Needy to Prevent Atypical Pneumonia, in which 100,000 hygiene kits were delivered to those frail and singleton elderly. From 11 to 26 April 2003, our volunteers provided assistance in packing sterilizing tablets, surgical masks, alcohol pads and SARS prevention guidelines into those kits.

Out of tight schedule, five volunteers from Millennium Engineering Ltd assisted in The Po Leung Kuk Hong Kong's banquet for some 1,000 senior citizens in celebration of the Lunar New Year. Throughout the event, they helped in crowd control, taking care of the elderly and pushing their wheelchairs.

As Lunar New Year's special greetings, limited edition "Greeting-Go-Round" Fortune Boxes of New World First Bus Services Limited ("NWFB") were sent to the elderly and the disabled people at the Riviera Elderly Centre (Tsuen Wan and North Point branches), St James' Settlement and YWCA Ming Yue Multi-Service Centre for the Elderly, respectively.