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| 15. 09. 2019 ISSUE 21 | |||
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List of Winners of S.I. Leadership Award |
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The Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK, which is an affiliate of this Centre, has introduced the S.I. Leadership Award for application by the CUHK students and alumni who are interested in social innovation. This award, paired up with training activities and team coaching, serves to encourage participants to advance existing services or products to meet social needs. The winning projects will each receive a maximum of HK$160,000 as seed money. In the last academic year, altogether 15 teams went through a half-year training and coaching. At the end, six teams were able to formulate their operation plans to compete for the S.I. Leadership Award. They attended the Project Presentation Day held on 4 July 2019 to introduce their projects to the judging panel comprised of the following: Ms. Irene Ng (Director, I·CARE Centre for Whole-person Development) The judging panel gave the teams valuable advice on their project ideas, feasibility and level of social impact. After serious consideration, the list of winners of the S.I. Leadership Award is set out below: Award Team Project Brief HK$80,000 Rolling Dialogue To preserve the culture uniqueness of the ethnic minorities and facilitate their Chinese language learning through a series of reading schemes and workshops. HK$55,000 The Wandering Voice To build an integrated community, which promotes cultural diversity and racial inclusiveness, through media and immersive programmes. Wildbreezes To encourage the children and youth to appreciate the beauty of nature through wilderness activities. For more information about the S.I. Leadership Award, please click here to visit the Facebook page of Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK. If you have any enquiry, please contact Mr. Or of this Centre at 3943 3227 (Tel) or timothycnor@cuhk.edu.hk (Email). |
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