SPICE Programme (Hong Kong) 28 Nov 2018
This video was taken by the coordinator of the SPICE Programme which ran in HK this summer.
This video was made during the second of three 7 day English ‘camps’ that run each summer for disadvantaged children. This one was held in the port area of Kwai Chung.
(See the second part of the video for the really exciting activities!)
28th September 2019
Lisa was chosen as one of the UK volunteers for SPICE this year, she is now back at Edinburgh University…….. This summer I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to travel to Hong Kong to volunteer for 7 weeks alongside 4 other UK students. I was volunteering with SPICE, a summer English programme for […]
read more28th September 2019
The programme brought together 10 Hong Kong undergraduates and 5 UK undergraduates to run three 7-day fun English camps for a total of 240 children. Apart from competitions, activities and games in the classrooms they all spent the day at the Hong Kong Country Club, one of HK’s most exclusive members clubs as well as […]
read more28th September 2019
He reflects on the programme and has also prepared the short video below…….. The SPICE English programme makes so much difference to approximately 200 children over the 3 7-day long programmes which run through the summer, and it makes an enormous difference to the interns and volunteers involved too. It is a great opportunity to […]
read more1st January 2019
Amos who is from Singapore and studying engineering at Edinburgh joined other students from Edinburgh and Leeds in Hong Kong this summer and here he recounts his experience…….. What began as a mere ephemeral thought, became reality as I begun packing my bags for this two-month long adventure in Hong Kong. An adventure towards self-discovery, […]
read more28th November 2018
This video was taken by the coordinator of the SPICE Programme which ran in HK this summer. This video was made during the second of three 7 day English ‘camps’ that run each summer for disadvantaged children. This one was held in the port area of Kwai Chung. (See the second part of the video […]
read more24th October 2018
SPICE 2018 – Hong Kong It is safe to say that these past couple of months in Hong Kong will never be forgotten. Upon arriving, I was greeted by the other UK volunteers who arrived a couple of days before me and we walked back to our accommodation at the Wu Kai Sha YMCA Youth […]
read more23rd October 2018
Melanie returns to her studies in the UK and looks back on a summer at SPICE in HK…….. After spending two months in Hong Kong I have now returned to the United Kingdom. Being back home, I reflect on my time with SPICE and I wish to share personal thoughts about the programme as well […]
read more26th August 2017
Every Summer we take a small group of native English speaking volunteers to work with HK undergraduate interns to run the Summer Programme for Immersion in Communicative English (SPICE) for disadvantaged local children. This programme is made possible by the generous support of Chow Tai Fook Charity Foundation and the Chinese YMCA of HK. This […]
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