顧積善堂COVID-19疫境送關懷計劃
Koo Foundation – COVID-19 Special Needs Care Fund Project
June 2020
In view of the outbreak of the coronavirus since late January, Schools have temporarily suspended their classes. Thousands of families are under tremendous stress, particularly those with SEN children/youth. It is worrying that such disruption of their training and other supporting services may adversely affect the future development of this disadvantaged group.
To provide immediate relief to the needy families with SEN children/youth, the Koo Foundation, in partnership with the WiseGiving of HKCSS, has launched a special project in the summer of 2020. The COVID-19 Special Needs Care Fund Donation Ceremony was held on 27 June 2020 and a total of 7 finalist projects were selected.
The Koo’s Giving Charitable Foundation is pleased to announce a total of 7 finalist projects were selected. We appreciated with their efforts and passionate to support the needy families in this challenging period of times. The Foundation believed by supporting different forms of training services could relieve the stress from hundreds of families during COVID-19 pandemic.
協康會 「特殊需要學童「裝備升小」教材套」
Heep Hong Society – Primary One Adaption Kit Giveaway for SEN Families
Heep Hong Society has distributed 150 training kits, set up online parent workshop and mock up primary class to K3 student to adapt the coming primary school life in September. The training will give them an introduction about primary school and the differences they will come across, the Foundation believes this will assist these pre-primary students to blend into the new environment smoothly.
We aim to enhance their overall development during summer holiday and assist parents to understand and overcome the challenges that children may encounter in new environment.
聖雅各福群會 <在家滿 Fun> 特殊學習需要兒童及家庭支援計劃
St James’ Settlement has distributed 300 home learning kits to underprivileged SEN families. The kits will provide children with training materials while schools are closed due to COVID-19 pandemic.
The packs included exercises to build up their hand-eye coordination, social skills and improve the level of inattention. Parents are able to train their children at home during summer holiday. We believe home learning is essential as the longer that SEN children are out of school, the less likely they can catch up the lesson when return school in September.
蕊展計劃 – 香港教育大學「SO FIT 親子活動頻道」
Project Aspire – The Education University of Hong Kong – So Fit Channel
Project Aspire has designed and uploaded total 20 training video to their YouTube channel. These videos will be teaching 115 SEN families to complete different sets of exercise through fun games, it will improve their physical health and social skills while staying at home during COVID-19 outbreak and summer vacation. The aim of these videos is to improve their physical and psychological well-being. These videos will be accessible anytime, parents can arrange their time to complete the activities with the children.
To increase the children’s motivation to complete the activities, a reinforcement plan will be introduced to reward gifts to children who have successfully finish all the activities. Participants commented that these videos did help parents and children to improve their relationship by working closer together to enjoy physical exercise and learn social skills through interesting games and art and craft activities.
For more details of the So Fit Channel, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRviaiZs3uqz_g1cCsOEz6Q/videos
循道衛理觀塘社會服務處 「樂學繽Fun計劃」
Kwun Tong Methodist Social Service– The Happy Fun Learning Project
KTMSS is a districted based service agency, who serves in Kwun Tong. Since all the schools are suspended due to the outbreak of COVID-19, SEN parents feeling exhausted to handle their children without any external support.
Therefore, KTMSS has designed a summer enhancement project for 40 SEN children to minimize the negative impact of the pandemic on their behaviors and emotion problems. A series of development training, parent counselling and academic support programme will be provided to help on completion of summer homework. Parents were happy that their children enjoyed the online lesson rather than stuck at home to play video games, and able to talk with classmates to gain better interpersonal skills.
香港基督教女青年會 快快樂樂兒家行」- 寓學習、訓練及遊戲一身的支援計劃
Hong Kong Young Women’s Christian Association – Happy Learning Programme
Under the influence of the COVID-19 epidemic, many local underprivileged families have to deal with extra financial burden. Parent-child relationship is also prone to problems as parents generally spend more time to take care of their children who do not need to go to school. Therefore, HKYWCA launched the “快快樂樂宜家行” project. The project gave away training materials to 300 SEN families, with the teaching materials and tools in the home-based training kits, parents can better grasp the skills in conducting training for their children and enhanced their parent-child relationship.
HKYWCA has recruited social workers to provide private academic support to SEN children via video calls or WhatsApp, they w help with summer homework to prevent these children fall behind their peers after the long holiday.
香港宣教會恩霖堂 – 童你不同步
Schools are closed as part of safety measure to prevent spreading of virus, it is particularly difficult for SEN parents to teach their children on their own. Therefore, Hong Kong Evangelical Yan Lam Church designed 6 weeks home-based programme with the training packs to 44 SEN families.
The self-study materials for kindergarten & primary school students, containing Chinese, English, Math and social studies exercises for children to work on while at home. It also included games to improve their behavior, emotion and problem-solving skills with parents. Social workers followed up with each family twice to analysis their progress and ensure the users are fully engaged in the materials.
The Foundation believes it is important to help children to find a comforting routine while their normal lives are disrupted, setting a daily training routine can help children find a sense of normalcy and reassurance, and ready to school in coming September.
傳恩惠您– Family Online COVID-19 香港 SEN 學童及年青人「網絡教材套」及「Online 訓練」
Honor U Ministry – Family Online Training Programme
The ban on face-to-face teaching at Hong Kong schools has been extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the support of The Foundation, Honor U Ministry provided training to 40 SEN youth ages 15-25 to learn the SEN Edutainment Tailor-Made IT & Multimedia Programs. The team will be taught and produced 15 series of animation videos, which will be more interesting for SEN children to learn at home via online platform, the training materials will be translated into various languages, and therefore the Ethnic Minority community in Hong Kong will also benefit.
Every SEN youth has their own talent, and they need a positive encouragement and opportunities to galvanize their potential. This project will give them guidance to support and nurture their strengths through appropriate training programme.
We hope these youth who are equipped with IT skills could expand their job opportunities and improve the employment prospect. Allowing these SEN youth to choose and work in industry they are passionate about and living in an independent life.