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Volunteers
help 5th Harmonica Festival
The
Federation's Youth Volunteer network (VNET) helped recruit
and train 400 young people as volunteers in the 5th Asia
Pacific Harmonica Festival 2004 in Hong Kong
click
here to read more...
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Nurturing
young talent in recreational management
The
Federation's Youth Employment Network (YEN) www.yen.org.hk
is collaborating with Sino Estates Management Limited...more
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Schools
and voluntary services
The
Quality Education Fund has kindly provided a sum of HK$2.5
million for a voluntary service learning program
more...
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Invest in
Youth has changed its name, but not its purpose. Youth Matters
echoes our mission to help and nurture young people to reach their
potential and we continue to seek public support, encouragement
and partnership in this endeavour.
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This year approximately
114,000 Form 5 students sat the Hong Kong Certificate of Education
Examinations (HKCEE). The results have just come out and it's been
high anxiety time. Six passes is the basic entry requirement into
Form 6 and barely 42% made the grade. Of those, only 67% will get
a sixth form place so naturally many see the exams as a significant
hurdle and thousands* turn to us for
counselling.
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Dr.
Rosanna Wong, DBE,JP
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In order to
help them cope the Federation runs a special large scale service
called Form 5 Broadband 27771112 whose staff conducted a survey
to find out how they were feeling. Over 25% said they became ill
or could not sleep, such was their exam anxiety. 100 Federation
counsellors do shiftwork during this peak period, talking to them
and their parents, raising realistic hopes for employment and further
education options and giving comfort and reassurance to the minority
who are suffering emotionally. Fortunately, making it into the 6th
form is not the only way forward and just a tiny minority have seriously
debilitating symptoms so for those who need distraction we also
lay on some fun. This year it was a Rap session at the Fringe Club
- a great way to forget all about exam result stress.
*See Youth Issues below for more details of
F5 Broadband 27771112
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Tommy: Glued
to the box- a tale of computer addiction
Online computer
gaming is enticing and entrancing if you're lonely. 31% of HK secondary
school students spend over 4 hours on the Internet a day according
to a recent survey. The line between fantasy and reality blurs and
the game becomes a substitute for real life. It's a growing problem
for teenagers and a 15-year-old committed suicide here last year
after losing an online game. We'd like to share with you a story
of a boy who got hooked. His schoolwork started to fall apart but
he came through as a result of counselling by a Federation social
worker. Read on…
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