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Jockey Club Volunteer Team cooks up recipe of love

05/05/2011

Dedicated to serving the community and fostering a caring culture, The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s CARE@hkjc Volunteer Team will ride on this year’s Mothers' and Fathers' Days to spread love and care in the city. In addition to handing out 20,000 cookies they have made, the Volunteer Team members will send personalised messages of encouragement to elderly singles, orphans, and single and grassroots families to spread joy and warmth in the festive season.

The 20,000 cookies to be distributed have been hand-made and wrapped by 50 Volunteer Team members with the support of experienced handicapped students of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals’ iBakery – putting the value of social integration championed by the Club into practice.  

The programme has been designed with those in mind who might not otherwise be able to share the festive warmth.  The Volunteer Team hopes it will help them feel special in this annual celebration of love, and be a part of a caring community.  Between Mothers' and Fathers' Days, the Volunteer Team members will be visiting elderly singles, people from single families and orphans in Sham Shui Po, Yuen Long, Tin Shui Wai, Tung Chung and Kwai Chung to show their care and love not only through the hand-made cookies, but also through a message of endearment to cheer them on:

 

A bite of warmth, a breath of care, just for you!

 

The Hong Kong Jockey Club

Founded in 1884, The Hong Kong Jockey Club has become one of Hong Kong's best known and respected organisations, providing the public with world-class sporting entertainment as well as being the city's major non-Government community benefactor, now donating more than HK$1 billion a year to charitable and community projects.  It has been a part of Hong Kong through good times and bad, sharing the city's growth and development with its people, and is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for future generations.

Photo 1, 2: Thanks to baking techniques and tips shared by TWGHs iBakerya£į?s handicapped students, CARE@hkjc Volunteer Team members learn how to make cookies that show love and care for the community.
Photo 1, 2: Thanks to baking techniques and tips shared by TWGHs iBakerya£į?s handicapped students, CARE@hkjc Volunteer Team members learn how to make cookies that show love and care for the community.

 
 

Volunteer Team members and students with disabilities spread warmth through the heart-shaped cookies.
Volunteer Team members and students with disabilities spread warmth through the heart-shaped cookies.

The cookies come with a message of endearment, specially designed by Volunteer Team members, to spread joy and warmth.
The cookies come with a message of endearment, specially designed by Volunteer Team members, to spread joy and warmth.

Photo 5, 6: Volunteer Team members deliver cookies of love to district organisations before Mothers' Day so that they can be distributed to elderly singles, orphans, and single and grassroots families.
Photo 5, 6: Volunteer Team members deliver cookies of love to district organisations before Mothers' Day so that they can be distributed to elderly singles, orphans, and single and grassroots families.

 
 

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