Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups
Founded in 1960, the Federation has since been involved in providing activities and facilities for the physical, social, educational, cultural development of Hong Kong's youth.
[1] The goal of HKFYG is to help young people to fully live their potential and develop well physically, socially, educationally and culturally.
They have published magazines every half year reporting the findings of the research on the latest phenomena or trends among young people.
In 1989, the self-financed Tsuen Wan Indoor Sports Centre, a joint venture with the Hong Kong Housing Society, was established.
In 1996, two small group homes (兒童之家) were established to provide rehabilitation services for mildly mentally handicapped children and teenagers between the ages of 6 and 18.
[10] The Hong Kong Melody Makers (香港旋律), a youth choir, was formed in the same year with sponsorship from The Dragon Foundation.
[14] On 19 December 2008, its 28-storey headquarters, the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Building (香港青年協會大廈) located on Pak Fuk Road, North Point, was officially opened.
:青協大廈) is a 28-storey social service complex located on 21 Pak Fuk Road, North Point, Hong Kong, next to the Quarry Bay MTR station.
station to facilitate development in creativity and enhance interactions with the community through social media, as well as a LEAD Lab to provide a platform to learning through engineering, art and design.
By using the Internet, social and new media, the HKFYG connects with young people on their terms and through their chosen mode of communication.
The M21 Youth Production Team gives young people a wide platform for imagination and innovation, and offers them hands-on operational experience in production, which is then screened through the M21 Internet Radio and TV, a broadcast network linked up with campus TV and community channels for the public.
The Tsuen Wan Indoor Sports Centre was established in 1989 as a joint venture with the Hong Kong Housing Society.
The centre concentrates on nine series of training courses for its members, which included sports, dancing, music, wushu, academics, information technology, experiential learning, language development and creativity programmes for children.
[19] The HKFYG Hong Kong Melody Makers (香港旋律)is a youth choir formed in 2004 by the Federation with sponsorship from The Dragon Foundation.
Counsellors are professionally trained social workers, offering support through the telephone (Youthline) or the internet (MSN).
As a result, the Center was established on 1 February 2007 with monetary sponsorship from Ping Wo Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau to provide counselling and treatment services to pathological gamblers and their families members.
In addition, it is to promote the anti-gambling to the public, particularly the youth, to prevent them from addicting to gamble and to develop a healthy life by offering different activities.
Paths to Adulthood is a 3-year program co-organized by the Federation, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charity Trust, Social Welfare Department and Education Bureau.
The two Ching Lok Kindergarten cum Nursery (traditional Chinese: 青樂幼稚園 及 幼兒園) were founded in 1997 in Sai Wan Ho[24] and 1999 in Yau Ma Tei.
In April 2008, the Kindergarten in Yau Ma Tei was advised to suspend classes for one week upon receiving reports of 47 students and one staff having fever with respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms amidst outbreaks of influenza.
Every year, the Federation organized a number of international and regional schemes, competitions and exchange programmes to encourage youngsters to be creative and fulfill their potential, including: Youth Exchange Unit Over the past 20 years, hundreds of exchange programmes and study tours have been organized to the Mainland under the "Discovering the Dragon" series, and to overseas countries under the "Discovering the World" series, providing opportunities for young people to understand China and to build up global vision.
Six Family Life Education Units (家庭生活教育組) are established in Kowloon City, Tai Po, Yuen Long, Wanchai, and Kwai Tsing.
The Units intend to create harmonious and loving relationships among family members by teaching them communication skills and giving them support.
[30] To assure a deep understanding of teenagers, the Federation established a research centre that runs polls and studies.
Its aim is to promote the development of territory-wide volunteer service in Hong Kong and to encourage young people to participate in voluntary work.
[32] With a demand for all-rounded development of the youth, volunteer services are getting popular in Hong Kong to help establish the moral standard of teenagers.
[36] Under a similar societal background between volunteers and the activities participants, a friendly relationship is formed by mutually sharing their own experience.
[40] Besides, they are nominated as the youth ambassadors[41] to share their experience in providing voluntary service in school assembly to promote the spirit and encourage a wider participation of students.
Experts working in the program organize training courses for volunteer teams of private companies, government departments and public corporations such as Motorola, Citic Ka Wah Bank, Hong Kong Cable Television Limited Archived 2021-10-21 at the Wayback Machine and Rating and Valuation Department to teach volunteer management and improve the quality of the program, motivating teenagers with a heart to serve the public.
Topics usually cover public affairs or social issues, e.g. drug abuse problem, the potential development of our country, the opportunities of nowadays teenagers, to give a chance participants to develop their analytical mindset and critical thinking skills in different aspect of those issues.
