Going into the Community and Sowing the Seeds of Change

Group photo of Ng Ji-yin, Bachelor of Theology students, Group 4 (Tai Kok Tsui). This spiritual practice day gave me the opportunity to participate in a community tour organized by Tai Kok Tsui New Blessing Ministries Association. This organization allows participants to learn first-hand the needs of poor people through "drop-in experience" and thus learn to respond appropriately to their needs. ...

Group photo of Master of Divinity student Tsang Jing-chong, Group 3 (To Kwa Wan). After the "Tujia" tour guide led a group of 20 of us to complete the guided tour in the old area of To Kwa Wan, he gave us an extra itinerary, which was to visit an old dilapidated building. 's rooftop. This rooftop is on the roof of a tenement building in the district. Since this place has been abandoned for a long time and the building is about to be rebuilt, the residents on the left and right sides simply regard this place as a garbage collection point and throw away all their old furniture and electrical appliances here to save the effort of taking them to the garbage station on the street. One day, some residents couldn't bear it anymore and decided to clean up the place. But there was a lot of rubbish, so they contacted the "Repair Hong Kong" volunteers who had been volunteering to help them repair electrical appliances to clean it up together. It is said that the volunteers spent at least seven full days of their spare time carrying the garbage in a human chain to clean up the large and small garbage. Now this place is very neat, painted with beautiful pictures, and has become a place for watching the sunset and for children to play. ...