Hong Kong Connect

Mission and Vision

Mission Statement

To be the empowering bridge for all cultures through teaching, training and sharing in order that they live transformed lives to fully contribute to their communities.

Vision Statement

We passionately believe in the freedom, and the power of people to grow, thrive and flourish interdependently.

Aim

We are the empowering bridge to facilitate immigrating Hong Kongers (and other races and cultures) to connect, learn, grow and give back, through teaching, training and sharing cultures, knowledge and languages in cross culturally communities.

Objectives

1. Empowering people
   • • We connect all Hong Kongers, new and old; and connect the Hong Kongers to the local British community and visa verse.
2. All cultures
   • • No matter who they are or where they are from, we want the new immigrants to feel welcomed, respected, appreciated and accepted.
3. Learn, train and share
   • • We aim to teach English as an Additional Language (EAL) and Cultural Orientation, to facilitate the process of acculturation and adaptation into understanding the British Core values to be a fully interpreted part of the British community.
   • We aim to facilitate different training programmes, vocational skills and certificates to enable the individuals to enter the work place successfully.
   • Sharing – we encourage the synergy between cultures to share in festivals and celebrations; sharing life together as family.
4. Give back
   • We aim to establish a ‘3+4=7’ scheme where individual learn and receive for the first 3 years and the give back into the community in the next 4 years.
   • Giving back will be in the form of time, volunteering and finance to facilitate others coming through.
   • 7 is the perfect number anthropologically speaking for an individual to adapt and become bi-cultural.
5. Cultures and knowledge sharing
   • We share resources and knowledge of the Hong Kong Spirit and Culture in harmony with the British Culture and values, welcoming other cultures to share in this harmonious interconnectivity. Celebrating the shared cultural values and strengthen the links between them and others.
6. Transformed lives
   • We aim to assist Hong Kongers, and other cultures, to comfortably adapt to British life restoring their identity, self-esteem and dignity whilst looking forward to a future of freedom, hope and destiny.
   • For Hong Kongers to reconnect with their roots and heritage to feel truly British Hong Kongers again.
7. Fully contribute to community
   • We aim to encourage all individuals to contribute back into society, helping people in the local community, and reaching back to help others, as they themselves move forward.
8. Interdependence :
   • We aim to encourage synergy in relationships where we teach, train, support, enable and encourage one another. Greater is the whole than the individual sum of its parts. We are greater together than as individuals working separately alone.
9. Freedom and Power
   • To have a voice again, to be heard, to have the right to a democratic vote and to be free.
   • To have individual liberty, mutual respect, tolerance of all beliefs and religion, the Rule of Law and democracy.

Trustee team members 2022/23

1. Carl Johnston
2. Carolyn Elizabeth Maria Cole-Rodrigues de Souza (Carolyn)
3. Wai Chi Chong (Charles)
4. Lai Kwan Wong (Daisy)
5. Sin Kwan Chung (Sini)
6. Pui Yu Melody Fung

Committee team members 2022/23

1. Chairman : Charles Chong
2. Vice Chairmen : Carolyn Cole and Daisy Wong
3. Secretary : Sini Chung
4. Finance : Melody Fung
5. The consultants : Mohammed Alam and Carl Johnston