The 19th Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Hong Kong's largest participatory annual sporting event, is scheduled on 25 January 2015 (Sunday). Similar to previous years, an IET Hong Kong running team is formed to participate in the “10km” race route. It includes 8 runners and 14 cheering team members from Branch Committee, Management Section, Younger Members Section and Students Sections.
On Marathon day, with high spirit, sufficient warm up and support from cheering team, our running team finished the “10km” race successfully in one and a half hour. The team was warmly greeted when passing through the finishing line. All of us enjoyed this annual event very much with a lot of photos taken during the race and fun of course.
Apart from participating in the meaningful race, the IET Hong Kong is committed to serving the community and supports those in needs by directly donation to ORBIS, Hong Kong Paralympic Committee & Sports Association for the Physically Disabled and The Hong Kong Anti-cancer society through Marathon Charity Program. We have ultimately achieved the objective of this activity – promoting IET in Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon and strengthening the connection among committee members. Lastly, we would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to all donors and helpers for support and assistance.
Let’s run again together in 2016!
Technical Visit to AsiaWorld-Expo
The Technical Visit to AsiaWorld-Expo was successfully held on 31st January, 2015. Mr. Steve Cheung, Head of Facility Management & Event Technical Support Services of AsiaWorld-Expo, delivered a presentation about the strengths and advantages of AsiaWorld-Expo, the challenges and opportunities raised by the Lantau Development Plan and their advanced facilities with flexible management to provide world class services.
The site walk in AsiaWorld-Expo covered the major exhibition halls and their thermal storage plant room. Mr. Cheung has shared the successful experiences on the application of textile duct, thermal storage system and other special features in exhibition halls to facilities flexible event management.
Participants were actively interacted with speaker during the visit, they were amazed by AsiaWorld-Expo’s experiences in managing various type of events. They responded this event has expanded their horizons by having a glimpse on the exhibition industry.
On behalf of Younger Members Section, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Mr. Steve Cheung and Mr. Ekmanson p*** for their supports to make the event successful.
Destitution elderly families’ visit
The elderly families visit was successfully held on 31 January 2015 (Saturday) in Sham Shui Po area with a total of 7 participants. The event was conducted by Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service, who was a community serving children, teenagers and families.
In the visit, Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service introduced the elderly families who lack of caring from their families, they have economic dinner fee in the Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service canteen and are distributed social workers for site visit every week. We understand their situations and those elderly families would like to talk and listen what outside happens.
Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service sent us to elderly flats doing house clean up by each group like windows, wash room, floor and kitchen cleaning. We IET YMS team were honour and had a memorable experience in this event.
This was a valuable experience to understand through the destitution elderly familiesi visit to make a better society by charities and had a warmest gathering with other IET members.
