Civil Service Newsletter October 2023 Issue No.115
Housing Department Volunteers Corps joined hands with the community to build a greener Hong Kong in the Hong Kong Tree Planting Day

Housing Department

More than 100 volunteers of the Housing Department Volunteers Corps took part in the Hong Kong Tree Planting Day together with their family members.
More than 100 volunteers of the Housing Department Volunteers Corps took part in the Hong Kong Tree Planting Day together with their family members.
THE Housing Department (HD) has been striving to achieve the department’s core value of caring by founding the Housing Department Volunteers Corps (Volunteers Corps) in February 1997. The Volunteers Crops and now has more than 500 members coming from different disciplines in the department who serve the community in their spare time.

The Volunteers Corps aims to serve the elderly residents living in public rental housing by organising activities such as home visits, afternoon gatherings and Chinese festive food preparation for them in traditional festivals. Moreover, the Volunteers Corps demonstrates the spirit of social contribution by participating in a vast array of community activities.

On 29 April 2023, it mobilised more than 100 volunteers to participate in the Hong Kong Tree Planting Day after a 3-year break due to the epidemic. The event, which was held at Tai Tong, Yuen Long, was supported by various organisations, with more than 2,000 volunteers planting over 8,000 tree seedlings to promote the green messages of nature and tree preservation, and environmental protection. The volunteers of HD planted tree seedlings together after walking uphill in hot weather so as to cultivate a greener countryside.

Volunteers actively participated in the tree planting activities.
Volunteers actively participated in the tree planting activities.

One of the volunteers, Assistant Housing Manager, Mr Cheuk Shing-wai said, “Volunteer work gives me the opportunity to devote love and care to the community. The tree seedlings that we planted represent our heartfelt wishes to make Hong Kong a greener and better home.”

Volunteers joined hands to plant more than 8,000 seedlings.
Volunteers joined hands to plant more than 8,000 seedlings.