Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) and Green Power, an environmental organisation, jointly launched a free mobile app Nature Rescue earlier to provide a social networking platform for the public to initiate and participate in nature clean-ups. As part of SHKP's Love Nature Campaign, the mobile app is developed with functions of rubbish blackspots reporting, Clean-up Checklist, Ecology Classroom and Activity Chatroom, latest news on environmental protection and activities can be released, thus promoting environmental protection to the public.
SHKP Executive Director Christopher Kwok remarked that in order to enhance public's awareness in environmental protection, SHKP's Love Nature Campaign produced online educational resources on the ecological environment for primary students and kindergarteners to encourage uninterrupted learning amid class suspensions during the pandemic. As soon as the pandemic eased, Nature Rescue organised a series of clean-up events and launched a new reward programme, encouraging the public to report rubbish blackspots, and to initiate clean-ups or participate in such activities. Meanwhile, the public can earn points to redeem star badges, and might have chances to get tickets to the sky100 Hong Kong Observation Deck, guided eco-tours organised by Green Power*, and other prizes. Please click here to download the Nature Rescue mobile app for further details.
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*Terms and conditions apply. For details, please refer to the Nature Rescue mobile app.
Amy Kwok, Executive Director of SHKP-Kwoks' Foundation recently signed donation agreement for a new phase of scholarship programme with Southwest University. The selection process of the third phase scholarship programme has successfully started, a total of 70 outstanding students with financial difficulties received the scholarship after undergoing an all-round assessment jointly organised by Southwest University Centre for Student Financial Aid and the Foundation. Since 2007, the Foundation has brought its total donations to RMB10 million benefitting 2,500 students of Southwest University. In the signing ceremony, Chen Shijian, Vice-President of Southwest University expressed his gratitude to the Foundation for its decade-long support for higher education in western China, which has allowed underprivileged students to have equal opportunities for advancement. Amy Kwok is pleased to see that the University has injected matching funds into the scholarship programme which now provides training on learning ability and subsidizes students' enrolments in professional training courses and public examinations. Looking forward, she hopes to join hands with Southwest University to explore innovative collaboration models to nurture more outstanding students to give back to the community.
