Lee Wai Chung received the 26th Outstanding Social Worker Award

Date: 20/01/2017

Congratulations to Mr. Lee Wai Chung (Chung Sir) of our Kwun Tong Happy Teens Club for being awarded the 26th Outstanding Social Worker Award organised by the Hong Kong Social Workers Association. The award presentation ceremony was held on 20 January, officiated by the then Acting Secretary for Labour and Welfare Bureau, Mr. Stephen Sui, JP.

Chung Sir has been rooted in Integrated Children and Youth Service for the past 20 years, with an innovative mind he has many breakthroughs in caring for the needy and the deprived. He launched the pioneered “Mobile Adventure Service” for the mild to severe grade mentally handicapped persons; for the low motivated and withdrawn overage youth, he launched the "Back to School Project" to help them back to school. He once used a basketball to build up a youth development platform for children from low-income families in the neighbourhood. He lined up various corporate resources and introduced hot meals to poor families and children lacking in care. Recently, he pioneered in a new housing estate to provide mobile services in the streets when no office premises available - he mobilised residents of Anderson Estate to integrate into this new community. These innovative, thoughtful and practical services are Chung Sir’s devotion to social work profession.