{"id":18358,"date":"2021-10-26T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/26\/celebrating-graduates-of-the-11th-citi-hkcss-community-intern-program\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T11:40:00","slug":"celebrating-graduates-of-the-11th-citi-hkcss-community-intern-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/26\/celebrating-graduates-of-the-11th-citi-hkcss-community-intern-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Graduates of the 11th Citi-HKCSS Community Intern Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HONG&#13;<br \/>\nKONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 26 October 2021 &#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b>The 2021 Citi-Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS)&#13;<br \/>\nCommunity Intern Program (CIP) has come to a successful completion, marking 11&#13;<br \/>\nyears since this unique cross-sector partnership began. The Recognition&#13;<br \/>\nCeremony shone a spotlight on the interns&#8217; achievements, acknowledging their&#13;<br \/>\nefforts and contribution to community affairs and their hard work in putting in&#13;<br \/>\nat least 160 hours of work experience and 20 hours of in-depth training with&#13;<br \/>\nHong Kong&#8217;s non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Over the past 11 years, CIP&#13;<br \/>\nhas nurtured Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) knowhow in 848 leaders of&#13;<br \/>\ntomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officiating at the recognition&#13;<br \/>\nceremony were Mr. Edward Yau, GBS, JP, Secretary for Commerce and Economic&#13;<br \/>\nDevelopment, Hong Kong SAR Government; Ms. Angel Ng, Chief Executive&#13;<br \/>\nOfficer, Citi Hong Kong and Macau; and Mr. Chua Hoi Wai, Chief Executive of the&#13;<br \/>\nHong Kong Council of Social Service. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Citi and&#13;<br \/>\nco-organized with HKCSS, the program is the first-of-its-kind cross-sector&#13;<br \/>\ncollaboration between academia, business and NGO sector and offers a unique&#13;<br \/>\nopportunity to students majoring in business studies to contribute their&#13;<br \/>\nknowledge and expertise to NGOs and help them build capacity. The aim is to&#13;<br \/>\ncultivate the concept of CSR in the students and provide them with a broadened&#13;<br \/>\nunderstanding of the needs of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The program gives future business&#13;<br \/>\nleaders the chance to work with local NGOs to tackle problems within the Hong&#13;<br \/>\nKong community. This summer, 78 business school students from 9 local&#13;<br \/>\nuniversities were selected and placed into 40 different NGOs, allowing them to put&#13;<br \/>\nthe knowledge they have gained at university to practical use.<\/p>\n<p>At the&#13;<br \/>\nceremony, Ms. Angel Ng, Chief Executive Officer, Citi Hong Kong and&#13;<br \/>\nMacau<b>, <\/b>said: &#8220;We at Citi are happy to have supported this great program&#13;<br \/>\nfor over a decade. Young people are our future leading Hong Kong to become a&#13;<br \/>\nbetter place in which to live and work. It is increasingly important&#13;<br \/>\nto empower our future leaders with the concept of Corporate Social&#13;<br \/>\nResponsibility (CSR) and a broadened understanding of the community and social&#13;<br \/>\nneeds. I hope the students will treasure this valuable experience and learn&#13;<br \/>\nfrom the insights gained during their internships, and that they will continue&#13;<br \/>\nthe concept of CSR wherever their careers take them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Chua Hoi&#13;<br \/>\nWai, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, added: &#8220;The&#13;<br \/>\nprogram has been devoted to nurturing future business leaders with opportunities&#13;<br \/>\nfor understanding and practicing Corporate Social Responsibility. They can get&#13;<br \/>\na grasp of various social issues and the actual needs of the placement&#13;<br \/>\norganizations. In view of the new normal and growing importance of big data, I&#13;<br \/>\nam delighted to know that the student interns did not only apply their market acumen&#13;<br \/>\nbut also applied their knowledge of business information to assist the works of&#13;<br \/>\nthe NGOs. I would like to express my gratitude towards all partners again for&#13;<br \/>\nsupporting the program for 11 years and hope that more students will unleash&#13;<br \/>\ntheir potential and contribute to the community. <\/p>\n<p>Five participants were given the &#8220;Grand&#13;<br \/>\nAward for Excellence&#8221; in recognition of their outstanding performance during&#13;<br \/>\nthe internships. They were Li Hoi Wan from the City University of Hong Kong and&#13;<br \/>\nTsoi Ka Wai from the University of Hong Kong who interned at Kids4Kids; and&#13;<br \/>\nChui Shing Hang from the Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Mak Chun Wai from&#13;<br \/>\nthe Hang Seng University of Hong Kong and Yim Sheung Ching from the City&#13;<br \/>\nUniversity of Hong Kong who interned at The Society for Truth and Light. <\/p>\n<p>Grand Awardee Chui Shing Hang of Hong&#13;<br \/>\nKong Metropolitan University said, &#8220;During my internship at The Society for&#13;<br \/>\nTruth and Light, I was responsible for animation production and educational&#13;<br \/>\nboard game design, and I assisted in organizing a seminar. CIP offered me the&#13;<br \/>\nchance to apply my business knowledge in the operation of a NGO and gain a&#13;<br \/>\ndeeper understanding of the community. I made plenty of breakthroughs and I&#13;<br \/>\nsincerely hope that I can utilize my business profession to contribute to&#13;<br \/>\nsociety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 78 interns served&#13;<br \/>\nvarious community groups, including low-income families, the elderly and&#13;<br \/>\npersons with disabilities, as well as helping with environmental conservation.&#13;<br \/>\nThey provided strategic and operational assistance to the NGOs in areas&#13;<br \/>\nincluding network and brand-building, fundraising, social business strategies,&#13;<br \/>\noperations and community service support. During the program, the interns&#13;<br \/>\nreceived 20 hours of in-depth training in NGO&#13;<br \/>\noperations and pressing community issues such as the poverty gap, the ageing population&#13;<br \/>\nand environmental concerns. They attended seminars on CSR and cross-sector&#13;<br \/>\npartnerships, visited non-profit and social enterprises, and were given opportunities&#13;<br \/>\nto interact with various underprivileged groups.<\/p>\n<p><b>Photos<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1vbXfJiRdtOzdpNrA2MDu2VQ498zBek66\/view?usp=sharing\">Photo 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Chua Hoi Wai (first row 5<sup>th<\/sup>&#13;<br \/>\nfrom left), Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS), Mr.&#13;<br \/>\nEdward Yau (first row 6<sup>th<\/sup> from left),&#13;<br \/>\nGBS, JP, the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, HKSAR Government,&#13;<br \/>\nMs. Angel Ng (first row 7<sup>th<\/sup> from&#13;<br \/>\nleft), Chief Executive Officer, Citi Hong Kong and Macau with Citi executives, representatives of business schools&#13;<br \/>\nfrom Hong Kong universities, representatives from placement NGOs, and interns.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1VqM34HWlUqnd8wFzqmU9RLxRGMeU2WtN\/view?usp=sharing\">Photo 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ms. Angel Ng, Chief Executive&#13;<br \/>\nOfficer, Citi Hong Kong and Macau, praises the&#13;<br \/>\nachievements and contribution of the student interns in her opening remarks&#13;<br \/>\nduring the Recognition Ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Ur1Ar8CkGWlOMesyKLnFYqLuegP8hRfE\/view?usp=sharing\">Photo 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Edward Yau (3<sup>rd<\/sup> from right), GBS, JP, Secretary&#13;<br \/>\nfor Commerce and Economic Development, Hong Kong SAR Government, and Ms. Angel Ng (3<sup>rd<\/sup> from left), Chief Executive Officer, Citi Hong&#13;<br \/>\nKong and Macau, pictured with the students who won the &#8220;Grand Award for&#13;<br \/>\nExcellence&#8221; and representatives of the NGOs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-26\/101018\/celebrating-graduates-of-the-11th-citi-hkcss-community-intern-program\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG&#13; KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 26 October 2021 &#8211;\u00a0The 2021 Citi-Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS)&#13; Community Intern Program (CIP) has come to a successful completion, marking 11&#13; years since this unique cross-sector partnership began. 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