Summary Works by Build & Wish Voluntary Team

25Sept2021 – “Dim Sum Paper” Help Each Other within the Same District

Thank you for everyone (Referrer, pick up station responsible person, packing volunteers & caring drivers) who have contributed to success & smooth operation of the Dim Sum Paper”

Rebecca & Helen who helped the Referrer & at the pick-up station

Shirley & Teresa who coordinated with the supplies & coordinating with the suppliers.

Bonnie who helped with the poster.

Sarah & Virginia who helped with packing the supplies & important documents at each station

Ada who helped with the operation of Octopus

Moon who helped with coordinating the supplies at the co-office

Karman & Esther who helped with data processing, team who worked before the scene with receipt preparation, Action Day Emergence Support

Winsome as the caring drivers coordinator

Rebecca & Alex as the warehouse coordinator

Monique as packing night coordinator

Veronica as the Financial Control, supplier payment & settlement at each station

Dicky as our “Dim Sum Paper” Event chief coordinator. Leading the team; organizing the monthly schedule, ordering suppliers, poster, online shopping, checking & quality control of supplies, understanding the operation of the station….etc.

Last but not least, thank you every volunteer for their selfless contributions!

22Sept2021 – Training Year

With “Footprint Volunteer Team”& Social Career, we have arranged 12 house maintenance classes.

 Besides house maintenance class, we also have “pest control class” (bedbugs, flea…etc).

Thank you for Brother Joe for leading the team & other master volunteers for their dedicated teaching, the response has been tremendously encouraging . There are hundreds of attendees each time (due to covid-19, we can only draw 20 people to attend class physically though)

 In the “Youth Leadership Program” we can feel the enthusiasm & motivation of the teenagers. They show their potential & they are working on the “Coupon Plan” at the “Dim Sum Paper” event.

We have an“Online Miss & Sir”project – with today’s technology, kids can talk & communicate with the teachers easily. We have completed the first stage of this project & we are working on the Second stage, thanks for Principal Ray.

Thanks for Moon’s coordination, the “English Remedial Class” has completed the first trial (8 classes + training camp) & formulate the teaching model.

There are already 10 volunteers teachers going to 10 organizations in different regions in HK  to teach primary school, secondary school students as well as adults in this enjoyable way to learn English.

In the “Volunteers without Border – Native English speakers” project, a couple university students are working on recruiting overseas volunteers to provide one to one Zoom class conversation with local student. They are working on posting at overseas discussing panels & websites.

 With “Green Grass Music Note”   working with “Kangaroos Action”- thank you William for teaching kids with special needs to learn daily tasks through “strangers”!

Sometimes, it can be more effective than teaching from their parents.

 Through the most update “Secondary School Student Ambassadors Program”- From making decorative artwork (little bamboo stall) for soul cleansing & for the helping each other project….the art work will be put in each region for fund raising purpose.

A Volunteer Training Class for “Children Story Telling” will be rolled out soon; thanks to senior teaching masters, Helen & Rebecca.  

The goal is to let kids from different districts to learn English & Chinese through listening to stories & to add to their knowledge.

Summary of major Works by Build & Wish Voluntary Team in the past 5 years since establishment (as at 10 Oct 2020)
1.       Home Improvement Works: for more than 500 cases
2.       Furniture Recycling for more than 8400 pieces of furniture/home appliances including matching, free collection, free delivery to the underprivileged houses
3.       Furniture Recycling for Newly Established Housing Estates: 4 operations with over 500 furniture/home appliances
4.       Debugging Works for over 120 underprivilleged houses with serious bed bug attacks
5.       Debugging Training : for more than 1000 social workers and volunteers for more than 50 classes,
6.       Debugging Kits: over 500 bags, including free debugging materials to be collected by trained social workers for underprivilleged families with bed bug attack.
7.       Free Ride: over 100 cases free ride for wheelchair people to achieve their dreams
8.       B&W Caring Drivers: over 300 operations by the voluntary drivers to take up the free delivery of free materials to the underprivilleged
9.       Mask collection and distribution: Distribution of over 200,000 masks kindly donated by different people in Hong Kong and distributed over 40 rounds to the needy via over 1000 social workers in over 200 social welfare institutes
10.   Sharing of Funds: in early March 2020, sharing of portion of our donation collected for over 60 social welfare groups in Hong Kong for immediately to purchase the medial gears/tools/materials for the staff and underprivileged
11.   Little but sincere Crowd Fund: over 200 donors supporting the fund raising for small scale social welfare groups
12. Sanitizer Dispenser in Tenement Houses: over 1900 tenement were installed since March to Jun 2020 with sanitizer dispenser by over 1000 volunteers and being cared by 1900 residents (one resident living in each tenement basis) and on going refilling of sanitizers assisted by over 140 restaurants close to tenement houses.
13. Home Cleaning Services: Since kicked started in Jun 2020, the programme is serving over 58 times in the first two months with jointly organized with different NGOs.
14. Kangaroo Action: Jointly organized with Green Grass Notes: Mothers with kids requiring special need to assist in home caring services for mothers also with kids requiring special need(kick start in Oct 2020).
15. Kids Home Improvement Programme: To improve the living spaces for kids living in tiny sub-divided flats in HK (kick start in Oct 2020).

Very much appreciated to the wonderful works by our working partners: Foot Print Voluntary Team, Social Career, HK Church Network for Poor, TY Caring, St James Settlement Voluntary Repair Works Team, Green Grass Notes, Ciif.

Installation of Sanitizer Dispensers for Tenement Houses in 18 Districts in Hong Kong , the statistics:
1.       Over 1900 tenement houses had been installed
2.       Over 1900 residents, one in each tenement house, are assisting the caring and refilling works
3.       Over 50 executive volunteers to do the planning, preparation and coordination works
4.       Over 1000 volunteers are help installing the dispensers within 13 weeks
5.       Over 140 restaurants/hair salons/shops around the tenement houses are acting as refilling stations
6.       Over 1000 volunteers are installing the dispensers within 13 weeks
7.       Over 20 social welfare centres are acting as temporary materials collection points for the volunteers to pick up the gears for the installation works
8.       Serving over 100,000 residents in the Community
9.       Over 200 free Build & Wish Caring Drivers operations for delivery of materials to different material stations and refilling stations
10.       Totally 3 Refilling of Sanitizers in Refilling Stations as per July 2020  
Thousand of thanks to everyone involved, making a wonderful team to fight against the Covid-19!

2nd Aug 2020
Build & Wish team’s work bringing hand sanitiser to disadvantaged communities amid Covid-19 earns Spirit of Hong Kong nomination

Working in groups of three, the volunteer effort has seen sanitiser dispensers mounted in the hallways of more than 1,900 older buildings in the city
‘Our volunteers come from all walks of life,’ charity’s leader says of more than 1,100 residents who turned out to help with the initiative

Build & Wish team members Hin and Gary (left to right), fill a hand sanitiser dispenser they installed at a housing estate in Sham Shui Po. Photo: Jonathan Wong
As Hong Kong battles a devastating third wave of the coronavirus those living in decades-old tenement blocks across the city are now able to more easily clean their hands to protect themselves from infection – thanks to a specialised team of volunteers.
Working in groups of three, members of the Build & Wish Voluntary Team, have fitted wall-mounted hand sanitiser dispensers in the hallways of more than 1,900 older buildings.
On each errand, they first sounded out residents’ interest in the hygiene-promotion project, before then installing the dispensers and recruiting neighbourhood helpers to refill them.

The Build & Wish Voluntary Team has been nominated for this year’s Spirit of Hong Kong Awards for their work bringing hand sanitiser to disadvantaged communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Hin, who serves as the group’s chairman, said that 1,126 Hongkongers, mostly recruited through mobile-messaging platforms, had taken part in the initiative over the past 13 weeks.
“Our volunteers come from all walks of life,” he said.
The veteran volunteer, who requested only part of his name be disclosed to keep a low profile, said his group was formed in 2015 with the aim of helping the city’s needy, including the elderly.
He said the Build & Wish team began its operations with home improvement projects, because most of the founding members were in the building sector.
As the charity grew, Hin and his teammates have broadened their mission into used furniture recycling and pest control.
The team also recruits volunteer drivers, who provide free transportation for wheelchair users.
Their work has earned the team a nomination for this year’s Spirit of Hong Kong Awards.
Service partner Li Hin-man of the Footprint Voluntary Services Association recommended the Build & Wish team for this year’s Spirit of Teamwork award, which recognises unsung groups that embrace their roles as socially responsible corporate citizens.
Hin, from Build & Wish, said the wider range of services his team was now providing illustrated the grim reality of the difficulties faced by underprivileged families on multiple fronts.
The annual event, co-organised by The South China Morning Post and property developer Sino Group, celebrates the accomplishments of remarkable people whose endeavours may go unnoticed.
Gary, who joined the Build & Wish team about three years ago and is now responsible for human resources, explained how he had once helped fix a household’s windows, only to find that one of the family members living there had special needs.
“The primary school pupil was affected by attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,” said the volunteer, who also wanted to keep a low profile for the charity work he did.
“I wanted to help them with their emotional needs as well as home improvement.”
Hin said his team worked closely with social workers to ensure an effective allocation of resources, and expressed gratitude for the support of such NGO partners as Social Career, TY Caring Foundation, Footprint Voluntary Services Association, the Hong Kong Church Network for the Poor and the DIY Voluntary Team.
“We collaborate on our projects and do our best,” he said.
Link:
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3095657/build-wish-teams-work-bringing-hand-sanitiser-disadvantaged

Up to end of Jun 2020, Build & Wish had collected and delivered free of charge for more than 8400 furniture and home appliances to the underprivileged in the light of matching works by over 200 social workers. Thousand of thanks also to the retired voluntary team in the Endeavourers HK Bert James Young Neighbourhood Elderly Centre to carry out follow up calls after the free delivery of furniture/home appliance to the needy’s homes.

10th April, 2020 Hand Sanitizers Programme - Build & Wish Voluntary Team
https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/Hong-Kong-s-army-of-volunteers-disinfects-the-city-house-by-house2

Gillian Wong, a petite, semiretired accountant in her sixties, leads the way into the dilapidated buildings, her eyes struggling to adjust to the dim light. Yan, a kindergarten teacher, follows, her bag weighed down by a 5-liter bottle of alcohol rub. The last member, Keith Tse, a construction worker on leave due to a leg injury, comes late but well-prepared, carrying a portable fan in one hand and a torch on his head. Both soon come in useful as the trio trudge up the stuffy, narrow stairways of the old tong lau -- tenement buildings -- of Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong.
Armed with a glue gun, bottles and posters, the volunteers are on a mission. They are among 80 teams spread out across all 18 districts of Hong Kong to install hand sanitizer dispensers at tenement buildings. These were built before the 1970s and as early as the 19th century, and are often poorly managed and in squalid condition.
Over two weekends in March, the initiative, run entirely by volunteers, reached 635 of 4,000 such buildings in the city. Red pins are scattered over the digital map the volunteers share, marking every block that has been covered. Their goal is to reach 1,500 and keep them supplied for at least two months.
However, the organizer, the Build & Wish Voluntary Team, now finds itself in a race against time as the number of new coronavirus cases soars in Hong Kong in a second wave of infections. Confirmed cases have gone from 100 at the start of March to over 900 now.

31st Jan 2019

Our 2nd Hand Furniture Works summary as at end of year 2018.

9th Jan 2019
Email to Food and Health Bureau to appreciate their staff for helping our free debugging works for the needy.

9th Jan 2019
DIY Voluntary Team/Build & Wish Voluntary Team - installation of railing for a family with two elderly.

5th Jan 2019
Multicultural Voluntary Team
Kick started of Multicultural Voluntary Team (organised by Build & Wish Voluntary Team/Foot Print Voluntary Team/Social Career) on 5th Jan 2019 !

1st Jan 2019

We are grateful to the Fu Tak Iam Foundation Limited for their sponsorship of the Furniture Recycling Project.

13th Dec 2018

Multicultural Voluntary Team

We are building up a multicultural voluntary team for the English speaking volunteers, working hand in hand with our volunteers, to serve the underprivileged families referred by the social workers. Our services include Home Improvement Works (home repair), Free furniture delivery services and debugging works.

Please invite your friends to join us by filling the below link! 

https://socialcareer.org/amphtml/job/detail/910007167?lang=en

Introduction:-
We are Build and Wish Voluntary Team comprising of volunteers from all walks of life, welcome!
We are all volunteers without any staff, without any office, without any administration cost as a result! Build and Wish is a non-profitable, non-religious, non-political charitable organization registered in Hong Kong (IRD no. 91/14666)

Mission: Through our services, we gather resources, gather financial supports, gather volunteers for the needy in the community.

Our major services including the following:

1. Home Improvement Works
We are doing home improvement works for the needy referred by the social workers of different social welfare institutes in the community. Since Build and Wish started Home Improvement Works in 2015, and up to April 2017, we had completed over 200 cases.

2. Free 2nd hand furniture/home appliance Free Delivery to the Needy
In doing the Home Improvement Works, we had alerted that there are plenty of 2nd hand furniture/home appliance available in the internet for the needy on one side, and there are also a lots of needy requesting for the same, but the two groups were not coordinated and the needy are not well off to pay the delivery cost.

Build & Wish have taken up the coordination role and assisted the needy for the 2nd furniture and home appliance and offered free delivery and installation works to the needy home direct, from the donor (what we called A) and needy (what we named B), ie from A to B direct, without any storage cost. The delivery relies on our volunteers and public donations and donations from charitable foundations.

In our whatsapp group, there are over 100 social workers/staff of different social welfare institutes together with voluntary team from Footprint Voluntary Team, the needy families from elderly, single families, people with disabilities, physical or mentally illness, rehab, drug addicts, families suffered from violence, ethnic minorities, and others.

Since it kicked started in Oct 2016, for the short period of few months, we have delivered over 900 furniture/home appliance to the needy in the community, zero administration cost relying on the greatest efforts by the volunteers/social workers to coordinate and match the needy families, and the delivery team. Deepest thanks for every single donor! The programme cannot be resourcefully operated without their kind donations.

3. Debugging Works

 Build & Wish Voluntary Team is also doing the free debugging works for the underprivileged with serious bug attack for years without any help anywhere, under our “Debugging Works - for the needy with the needy by the needy Programme”

Contact Us, Joining Us and Kind Donation:-
If you want to learn more about our services, join our voluntary services, donate furniture/appliance:
Please contact our volunteer  Jan (9609 0399)
For monetary donation, please bank in to Hang Seng Bank Account No. 789-261-872-001.
Please keep the receipt for the tax reliefs (donation $100 or more, Charitable IRD no. 91/14666) and contact our volunteer (Jan 9674 7510) for the arrangements.