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Civil Service Bureau
The CSB Volunteer Team, established for more than 20 years, has always been in close contact with various social welfare groups and local organisations, and actively participates in community care activities to support people in need. The team, led by the Secretary for the Civil Service, Mrs Ingrid Yeung Ho Poi-yan, and the Permanent Secretary for the Civil Service, Mr Clement Leung Cheuk-man, participated in many volunteer services in the latter half of 2022.
On 9 July 2022, Mrs Yeung led around 20 members of the CSB Volunteer Team and the volunteer team of the Administrative Service Association to Lantau Island, Peng Chau, Cheung Chau and Lamma Island, partnering with outreach medical staff to assist the elderly and persons with special needs to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. Mrs Yeung and Mr Leung joined the outreach teams to visit Tai O to assist in the vaccination of the elderly and chatted with them to get better idea of their needs. Given the hot weather on that day, volunteers paid extra attention to the condition of supporting equipment and the storage of vaccine doses under the scorching heat. Helping out in remote locations was far from easy, but nothing could dampen the enthusiasm of CSB volunteers to serve the elderly. The results were very encouraging, with over 60 outlying island residents aged 70+ and more than 10 seniors aged 90+, including a female centenarian, getting vaccinated on that day.
Mrs Yeung led the CSB Volunteer Team to Gingko House, a social enterprise restaurant in Yau Ma Tei that advocates employment of seniors, to participate in its volunteer activity on 19 November 2022. The volunteers worked as a team to help prepare food in the kitchen, pack meal boxes and soup containers, and then distribute these “Love Rice Boxes” to around 150 elderly and people in need. They also provided information on COVID-19 jabs to those who had not yet got vaccinated and explained the enhanced protection that would provide them against COVID-19.
On 3 December 2022, Mrs Yeung and Mr Leung attended the “Children with jabs, parents with ease” carnival at D·PARK in Tsuen Wan to encourage more members of the public to bring their children and family members to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. A mobile vaccination station was set up at the venue with five kinds of COVID-19 vaccine provided, including the paediatric formulation and the toddler formulation of the BioNTech vaccine, for people of different ages to receive on site.
The CSB Volunteer Team also actively participated in the event by promoting vaccination at the mall and the mobile vaccination station, answering enquiries from members of public and assisting them to register for vaccination. The response from the crowd was overwhelming with many family members, young and old, learning about the significance of vaccination in a joyful way and getting vaccinated on site.
