"Hopefully Yours", a video series produced by our Communications Centre on handling adversities in life, was launched last year. While we continue to fight against SARS, we hope to use the sequel of this series to encourage the people in Hong Kong.

The sequel of "Hopefully Yours" is sponsored by the Community Chest. It includes 8 4-minute episodes of various people's stories. The stories reflected the effects that SARS had on individuals from different walks of life. The series were stories of a front-line medical staff, a cleaning staff, a hospital chaplain, an employee who had to work under no-pay-leave, a recovered patient, family members of a SARS patient, a volunteer worker and people from the general public, especially women who suffered as a result of SARS.

The production team not only uncovered the stories of the above persons, it gave a platform for professionals from different fields, such as psychologist, social worker, university lecturer, coordinator of worker's association and hospital chaplain, to sound their opinions through interviews. The series were made to bring to the audience messages from constructive angles. Since SARS has had an extensively broad effect on all people despite their socioeconomic and ethnic background, we invited Mr Lee Kam Hung, a veteran news commentator, to host the series hoping to bring an in-depth reflections of life through those real people' stories.

To date, we still cannot cure SARS, but we hope to encourage people to strive to be healed from their pain and trauma resulting from this deadly plague. In one of the episodes, Rev. Josephine Siu, Hospital Chaplain of the United Christian Hospital stated, "Everyone needs the spirit of power to overcome, we should support one another in gaining such power, and Hong Kong as a whole, more than ever before, needs such spirit of power." "Hopefully Yours" video program is what we hope to help Hong Kong people regain such spirit of power to emerge from fear, anxiety and stress.

The broadcast of "Hopefully Yours" series will be on public transport buses via "Roadshow" as well as on our web. Please note the different show dates on our website. Copies of VCD will be given out on request in later days.