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Pepsi Charity Auction
We
are very grateful to PepsiCo for their
continuing support for the Federation's youth development
work. Immediately
after the remarkably successful PepsiCo Charity Concert
that took place on 20 December last year, PepsiCo generated
a net profit of RMB 92, 025 at the Pepsi charity auction
for the benefit of the Federation and The Dragon Foundation...click
to read more…
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Colors
your Summer - Youth Ambassador Program
In
a new collaborative venture the Federation will partner
McDonald's Restaurants (Hong Kong) Limited in
the Colors your Summer Youth Ambassador Program which
aims to provide
all-round job training to the students selected to take
part…click
here to read more...
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HKFYG's
Job Recruitment Day
Last
year's three Youth Careers EXPOs succeeded in attracting
more than 13,000 young people and received encouraging feedback
from the public. On 22 March 2005, the Federation is going
to join hands with the Labour Department to
organize a fourth EXPO in Tuen Mun…click
here to read more...
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Youth Forum on "Looking Northward - Career Prospects in China"
The
Standard Chartered Bank and the Hong Kong
General Chamber of Commerce are our partners in a forum entitled
"Looking Northward - Career Prospects in China". It will
be on Monday 21 March 2005 from 6-8pm in the Auditorium of
the
Hong Kong Council of Social Service. There will be discussions
between participants and a panel of guest speakers on employment
opportunities on the Mainland…click
here to read more...
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The
Unlimited Potential of Youth
Microsoft
is in the limelight at the Federation this year. As one of
the Caring Companies we nominated for their Unlimited Potential program,
they have made a generous commitment to Hong Kong, donating
HK$5.6million in cash plus software, training packages and
support services. The total value of their support for our
young people's technical education is HK$15 million.
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Alexander
Huang, Rosanna Wong, Teri
Ng
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"The
Federation is one of our treasured partners in the community
affairs area, sharing our missions and values," said
Teri Ng, Microsoft's Director of Law and Corporate Affairs,
Far East Region. 18 fully equipped IT training centres called
Cyber SPOTs will be set up within our Youth S.P.O.Ts to help
to bridge the digital divide between Hong Kong's rich and poor.
The one at Tsuen Wan has already trained 1000 young people
who would otherwise have found great difficulty affording the
courses.
"HKFYG
is serving as a best practice showcase for next-generation
wireless-enabled IT learning centers in implementing and
sustaining technology training programs on the district level,
with its advanced resources, curriculum and technical expertise."
Naturally,
we are very happy to have feedback like this and look forward
to keeping readers up to date with progress in implementing
the three phases of the programme.
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Ideas for sustainability
Sustainable development is a phrase we see often in the media but
what does it actually mean? The Federation devised a competition
called the HK Public Policy Innovation Award (PIA): Strategies
for Sustainable Development to stimulate young people's interest.
We run it with the collaboration of the Hong Kong Policy
Research Institute and the sponsorship of the Sustainable
Development Fund and have been talking to two of the award winners.Click
here to read about it
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Equal
or not
Last Tuesday was International Women's Day - a good time to find out what Hong
Kong's young people think about gender equality and the role of women in our
society...click
for some recent figures...
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Smoke-free
zones
The recent
news of the ban on smoking in public places as of mid-2006 is
very good news. It comes just after University of Hong Kong researchers
showed that second-hand smoke alone costs the city HK$1.2 billion
in health care every year... click
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