A. RAAS Talk on Food Waste and Environmental Protection
RAAS Environmental Program Sub-committee Chair President Mawin Cheung and Mr Billy Lee were invited to deliver this talk to 400 students and 10 teachers of Heung To Middle School on 23 October 2013, after the sponsoring club, Rotary Club of Hong Kong City North, had finished the regular luncheon meeting at their partnering school and had an Exchange Section with 6 students and 4 teachers.

B. Sports Day for All 傷健共融運動日 on 2 November 2013 at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sports Day for All programmes include Track and Field competition, Standing Long Jump, Golf (Putting and Chipping), Blind Football 5-A Side Tournament, Game Booths and Blind Experience Tour and the breaking of Guinness World Record of Longest Handshake Chain attempt. Please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEruh4dESs&feature=youtu.be for more information.
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A total of 15 game booths with different games and all sports items will be operated in the morning session while Lion Dance, singing and dancing, martial art performance and variety shows will be carried out from 12 noon till 2:30 p.m. After the Opening Ceremony officiated by Chief Secretary of Administration Mrs Carrie Lam and DG Eugene Fong, the breaking of Guinness World Record of Longest Handshake Chain attempt will then start. The Adjudicator will come to Hong Kong to witness the GWR attempt.
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A. Mock Legislative Council Debate on 26 October 2013 at Legislative Council Complex
DG Eugene Fong and Hon. Kenneth Leung Kai-cheong will be our Guests of Honour. There are 10 RAAS partnering schools with almost 70 participants have signed up to attend.

B. Sports Day for All 傷健共融運動日 on 2 November 2013 at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground
“Sports Day for All” Co-Chair PDG Tony Wong announced with great pleasure that due to overwhelming responses, despite our target was 3,000 participants only, we had over 4,000 people enrolled including Rotary Clubs and those under Rotary umbrella, Voluntary Services and Police Department etc.

The Organising Committee decided to stop receiving enrollment after the deadline 11 October and will choose to invite appropriate participants to attend this event. This difficult measure has to be made because we are confined by the maximum capacity accommodated in Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground. We shall keep you informed of the progress.
PDG Tony would like to express his sincerest gratitude to all of you and thank you so much for your tremendous support.
The promotional video clip has been showing in 3 outdoor LED TV displays in Mongkok, Tsimshatsui and Infinitus Plaza along Des Voeux Central till 31 Oct 2013 plus Asiaray at Worldwide House; Easy Group at Mini Bus screen; Touch Media at Taxis screens. All of which are entirely free of charge.

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A. Mock Legislative Council Workshop on 5 October 2013 at Legislative Council Complex

B. Sports Day for All 傷健共融運動日 on 2 November 2013 at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground Poster has already been displayed at MTR East Line, Hong Kong Island and Tsuen Wan started
from 16 September till 11 October 2013, all of which are free of charge.
In addition, 3 outdoor LED TV displays in Mongkok, Tsimshatsui and Central will be promoting this event, e.g. LED TV displays at Infinitus Plaza along Des Voeux Central 1 month from 1 Oct 2013 to 31 Oct 2013 Asiaray at Worldwide House; Easy Group at Mini Bus screen; Touch Media at Taxis screens.
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Time: 09:00 – 13:00 – Sports Competitions & Games for sighted and visually impaired, Blind Experience Tour
14:30 – 17:00 – Performances; Ceremony; Breaking the Guinness World Record
Venue: Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground (All areas in main sports ground)
Officiating Guest: Guests of Honour:
Mrs LAM Cheng Yuet-ngor, Carrie, GBS JP,
Chief Secretary of Administration
Mr Eddie NG Hak-kim, SBS JP, Secretary for Education
Dr. CHOW Yat Ngok, York, GBS JP, Chairman of Equal Opportunities Commission
Mr Peter SUN, MH, Chairman of Hong Kong Blind Sports Federation
Mr Eugene FONG, District Governor of Rotary International District 3450
Please visit the District facebook for the promotional video appealed by the popular artist Mr Cheung Chi Lam.
All visually impaired people, students & teachers, uniform teams and volunteer event helpers are at no charge. Kindly support this meaningful event by mobilizing your club members, youth, members of Rotary family to participate.
Please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEruh4dESs&feature=youtu.be
for the Rehearsal Clip for GWR (Guinness World Record) – Longest handshake chain
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It is in discussion on inviting the Adjudicator from GWR Beijing office to Hong Kong who will advise us on all the required procedures and will present the GWR Certificate on the event venue once we have broken the record on 2 November 2013.
Deadline for enrollment: 11 October, 2013
Enquiry: Please contact Sports Day for All Co-Chair PDG Tony Wong via email to tony@howai.com or at 91098899.

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A. Sports Day for All on 2 November 2013 at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground
The site visit originally scheduled on 2 August but postponed to 9 August 10:30 a.m. due to the bad weather. Rotarians are welcome to join in.
Since Hong Kong Jockey Club turned down the application for funding support due to timing concern and the nature of the event is different from the original application that HKBSF applied for 2 years’ financial support to direct benefit Visual Impaired people, the OC was advised to raise funds on its own. A fund-raising sub-committee chaired by Grace Chan, CEO of HKBSF was formed and Rotary will consider supporting.

B. Site Visit to Green Technology Consortium Campus (GTC) on 18 Aug 2-4 pm
GTC is located in the 120,000 sq. ft. Campus at Sheung Shui where displays various Green Technologies:
– Food waste processing centre: manage up to 50 tons daily including 60,000 to 120,000 lunch boxes
– Food waste machine training centre: display various machines from few kg. up to 100 kg.
– Urban Organic Farm: illustrate modern organic farming solutions inside city
– Japanese Experimental Farm: Japanese researcher doing R&B projects
– Hydroponic Farm: provide water farming vegetable
– GTC Green Room: display solar light and wind powered system, bamboo
flooring, chemical free cleaning solution

C. 2013 Hong Kong Student Calligraphy Exhibition cum Prize Presentation Ceremony on 21 September 2013 at 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. at Sheung Wan Civil Centre, Exhibition Hall.
DG Eugene and Mr. Edwin Tsui, Principal Education Officer (Kowloon) will be invited to be Guests of Honour. Exhibition of Chinese Handwriting Calligraphy will take place from 21 to 23 September 2013. You are welcome to visit the Exhibition.

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A. Sports Day for All on 2 November 2013
It will be held at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground with the
following aims:
– To promote public awareness especially to school students on the needs and
abilities of the blind in sports training and competitions.
– Through success in sports competitions to regain the self-confidence of blind and
visually impaired people.
– To recruit interested visually impaired people to take part in sports training.
-To recruit interested school students / teachers / their family members and
corporate staff as guides for visually impaired athletes.
– To break the Guinness World Record for the “Longest Handshake Chain” jointly
by people with and without visual impairment so as to build a harmonious society.

B. CDIA Official Launch Ceremony and Concert on 16 August 2013
– Child Development Initiative Alliance (CDIA) comprises of leading business and community organization, bearing similar belief and conviction to youth development.
– CDIA committed organizations to advocate the novel holistic approach in youth development.
-Together, we will raise social awareness of youth issues and enlist further support from all sectors of the society.
– Official Launch Ceremony will be held at 7pm on Friday, 16 August 2013 at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Jockey Club Auditorium

C. Postponement of Site Visit to Green Technology Consortium Campus
Due to the anticipating bad weather and raining during the coming weekend caused by Typhoon Utor, Environmental Program Sub-committee Chair President Mawin Cheung advised to postpone the captioned visit till further notice.

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