Campus Digest

HKBU holds Naming Ceremony of Tsim Sha Tsui District Kai Fong Association Activity Centre

19 Mar 2014

(From left) Professor Albert Chan, Mr. Cheng Yan-kee, Mr. So Chung-ping, Mr. Lam Cho-kwong and Dr. Wilfred Wong officiate at the ceremony (From left) Professor Albert Chan, Mr. Cheng Yan-kee, Mr. So Chung-ping, Mr. Lam Cho-kwong and Dr. Wilfred Wong officiate at the ceremony
(From left) Professor Albert Chan, Mr. Cheng Yan-kee, Mr. So Chung-ping, Mr. Lam Cho-kwong and Dr. Wilfred Wong officiate at the ceremony

 

HKBU held a ceremony today (19 March) to name activity rooms located on the 6th floor of Oen Hall Building (East Wing) on HKBU’s Ho Sin Hang Campus the “Tsim Sha Tsui District Kai Fong Association Activity Centre”. The ceremony was held to honour Tsim Sha Tsui District Kai Fong Welfare Association’s generous donation of HK$3 million in support of the University’s development.

In his remarks, Professor Albert Chan expressed his gratitude to the Association for their recognition of the ethos of HKBU and their long-term support to the University’s development since the mid-90s. Among these, the Association had supported HKBU in establishing the Tsim Sha Tsui District Kai Fong Welfare Association Scholarship to provide financial aid to students in need. HKBU and the Association also jointly launched an HKBU Chinese medicine clinic at the Association’s building, providing a wide range of Chinese medicine service to the community.

Officiating at the ceremony were Mr. So Chung-ping, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Tsim Sha Tsui District Kai Fong Welfare Association; Mr. Lam Cho-kwong, Chairman of the Supervisory Committee, Tsim Sha Tsui District Kai Fong Welfare Association; Mr. Cheng Yan-kee, Chairman of the Council and the Court, HKBU; Dr. Wilfred Wong, Chairman of the HKBU Foundation, and Professor Albert Chan, President and Vice-Chancellor, HKBU.

Of the total amount donated by the Association, HK$2 million has been designated for the establishment of the Service Learning Student Activities Fund to encourage students’ participation in service learning activities and community service, thereby cultivating their service leadership abilities. The remaining HK$1 million will support a clinical research project newly launched by HKBU’s School of Chinese Medicine on the efficacy of acupuncture and Chinese medicine in the treatment of dementia.

HKBU is committed to promoting the development of Chinese medicine in teaching, research, clinical service and technology. In order to provide better service to the local community, a project has been launched to ascertain and quantify the efficacy of acupuncture and Chinese medicine in the treatment of dementia, aiming to further enhance the effectiveness of the treatment based on statistics collected from clinical treatments.