Page 72 - URA Annual Report 2021-22

CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY
Grooming Our Next Generation
The ‘oUR Amazing Kid Band’, a URA initiative to strengthen the social network of participating kids and their families in To Kwa Wan, continued to conduct weekly online classes and parent-child classes during school suspension amidst the pandemic. Comprising 46 band members, of whom over 60% were residing or had resided in the URA’s project sites, the Kid Band in 2021/22 strengthened its community presence by giving public performances and virtual visits to elderly centres operated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church Social Service and Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (TWGHs).
Parent-child classes help strengthen the family bonding of Kid Band members.
‘oUR Amazing Kid Band’ members give auspicious greetings to the elderly along with festive sing-songs at virtual visits to an elderly centre during the pandemic.
Through music performances and training, Kid Band serves to strengthen the social network of participating kids and their parents who live in the URA project area.
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