Daniel Mak (1971 WYHK) recently shared with us the latest update on Tin Shui Wai English Tutorial Project:
Dear Mr. Julian Leung, Chairman of WYHK PSA and Mr. Raymond Chow, Chairman of WYK PSA,
Thanks for inviting me to your board meeting recently and agreeing to become a partner of the Free English Tutorial Project in Tin Shui Wai (TSW) initiated by the Class 1971 WYHK. I am writing to thank your Assn. for the relentless support and help you have tendered in the past year to make our project a continuous success and to, through you, pay tribute to those alumni and family members who have responded to your appeal for help and to call for even more alumni to come forward to participate in this very meaningful project to help more under-privileged students in TSW.
Up-to-date, we have three intakes of students since March 2015 benefiting together over 300 under-privileged students in eleven different schools. The latest intake started in Feb. 2016 and will end in June. Through publicity and appeal of your Assn., we have been able to recruit in these three intakes sufficient WY alumni volunteer tutors and substitutes who are willing to sacrifice their time and effort to help improve not only the English but, more importantly, the self-image of these under-privileged students. Their families are all receiving public assistance and therefore cannot afford to send their kids to private tutorial classes even if they are promising but are academically behind because of lack of proper guidance and support at home.
I would like to take this opportunity to make tribute to the following 26 alumni and their family members who come from different professions and have played an important part in the project:
School Yr. Name Profession Duty Wah Yan student family 19XX WYK 63 Lau Tak Sang retired tutor WYK 65 Choi Min Kong Francis mgm. Consultant tutor WYHK 71 Eng Tak Hoi, Tak banker sub-T WYHK 71 Shuen Pak Chin, Alex accountant sub-T WYHK 71 Leung Lai Sheung, Loretta accountant sub-T wife of Shuen Pak Chin, Alex WYHK 71 Tong Wai Kong, Henry accountant tutor WYHK 71 Cheung Kai Ying engineer tutor WYHK 71 Poon Chung Yin, Joseph banker sub-T WYHK 71 Mak Wah Hung, Daniel retired CEO co-ordinator WYHK 71 Ng Wai Shun, Chris engineer asst. co-ordinator WYHK 71 Kwan Lok Fong, Anthony engineer webmaster WYHK 72 Tso Yeung, Arthur solicitor sub-T WYHK 72 Wong Tze Chung, John marketing sub-T WYHK 75 Lam Wai Lun, Stephen engineer tutor WYHK 79 Chan Chi Fai, Herbert self-employ tutor WYK 79 Leung Po Man, Richard IT tutor WYK 79 Tam Kam Fai, Telly sales tutor WYK 79 Monique Yeung NGO tutor wife of Leung Chi Hang, Bertrand WYHK 83 Tsang Ho Fai, Thomas Doctor sub-T WYK 84 Ho Yiu Cheung, Gareth police officer sub-T WYK 87 Tsang Mun Chung, Tim banking tutor WYHK 87 Woo Wang Kee, Fred IT tutor WYK 97 Too Ho Man, Ivan hotel mgm. admin. ass’t 20XX WYHK 07 Lee Hoi Leong, Jack praisage tutor WYK 16 Wilson Or Management tutor father of Or King Yin, Austin WYK 16 Or King Yin, Austin Student admin. ass’t They are living example of alumni who have truly upheld the ‘Men For and with Others’ WY spirit to serve and and help the needy in society.
I hope, through your website and appeal to other alumni and family members, they can follow suit and come forward to become tutors of the fourth intake which will begin in Sept. this year and which we aim to expand to cover more schools and help even more students. Alumni who are interested to help can go to the following website in which more details of the project are given and contact me at the telephone and email address contained therein for enrollment:
http://tswetp.wahyanhk1971.org/
Last but not the least, we are also indebted to Fathers Alfred Deignan and Stephen Chow as well as the two WY principals, Dr. So Ying Lun and Mr. Warren Chung, for their unfailing support and regular appeal to alumni to join our project. My thanks also go to Mr. Sze Chung Fai, Jeff, a WYK alumni and the Political Assistant to the Secretary for Education for his valuable advice in setting up this project.
I hope our partnership will continue to flourish, more alumni will join our project and more under-privileged kids will benefit from our joint effort. Many thanks.
Cheers,
Daniel Mak
Class of 1971 WYHK