Daniel Mak (1971 WYHK) recently shared with us the latest update on Tin Shui Wai English Tutorial Project:

Dear Mr. Julian Leung, Chairman of WYHK PSA and Mr. Raymond Chow, Chairman of WYK PSA,

 

Thanks for inviting me to your board meeting recently and agreeing to become a partner of the Free English Tutorial Project in Tin Shui Wai (TSW) initiated by the Class 1971 WYHK.  I am writing to thank your Assn. for the relentless support and help you have tendered in the past year to make our project a continuous success and to, through you, pay tribute to those alumni and family members who have responded to your appeal for help and to call for even more alumni to come forward to participate in this very meaningful project to help more under-privileged students in TSW.

Up-to-date, we have three intakes of students since March 2015 benefiting together over 300 under-privileged students in eleven different schools. The latest intake started in Feb. 2016 and will end in June. Through publicity and appeal of your Assn., we have been able to recruit in these three intakes sufficient WY alumni volunteer tutors and substitutes who are willing to sacrifice their time and effort to help improve not only the English but, more importantly, the self-image of these under-privileged students. Their families are all receiving public assistance and therefore cannot afford to send their kids to private tutorial classes even if they are promising but are academically behind because of lack of proper guidance and support at home.

I would like to take this opportunity to make tribute to the following 26 alumni and their family members who come from different professions and have played an important part in the project:

School	Yr.	Name	Profession	Duty	Wah Yan student family
19XX
WYK	63	Lau Tak Sang	retired	tutor
WYK	65	Choi Min Kong Francis	mgm. Consultant	tutor
WYHK	71	Eng Tak Hoi, Tak	banker	sub-T
WYHK	71	Shuen Pak Chin, Alex	accountant	sub-T
WYHK	71	Leung Lai Sheung, Loretta	accountant	sub-T	wife of Shuen Pak Chin, Alex
WYHK	71	Tong Wai Kong, Henry	accountant	tutor
WYHK	71	Cheung Kai Ying	engineer	tutor
WYHK	71	Poon Chung Yin, Joseph	banker	sub-T
WYHK	71	Mak Wah Hung, Daniel	retired CEO	co-ordinator
WYHK	71	Ng Wai Shun, Chris	engineer	asst. co-ordinator
WYHK	71	Kwan Lok Fong, Anthony	engineer	webmaster
WYHK	72	Tso Yeung, Arthur	solicitor	sub-T
WYHK	72	Wong Tze Chung, John	marketing	sub-T
WYHK	75	Lam Wai Lun, Stephen	engineer	tutor
WYHK	79	Chan Chi Fai, Herbert	self-employ	tutor
WYK	79	Leung Po Man, Richard	IT	tutor
WYK	79	Tam Kam Fai, Telly	sales	tutor
WYK	79	Monique Yeung	NGO	tutor	wife of Leung Chi Hang, Bertrand
WYHK	83	Tsang Ho Fai, Thomas	Doctor	sub-T
WYK	84	Ho Yiu Cheung, Gareth	police officer	sub-T
WYK	87	Tsang Mun Chung, Tim	banking	tutor
WYHK	87	Woo Wang Kee, Fred	IT	tutor
WYK	97	Too Ho Man, Ivan	hotel mgm.	admin. ass’t
20XX
WYHK	07	Lee Hoi Leong, Jack	praisage	tutor
WYK	16	Wilson Or	Management	tutor	father of Or King Yin, Austin
WYK	16	Or King Yin, Austin	Student	admin. ass’t

They are living example of alumni who have truly upheld the ‘Men For and with Others’ WY spirit to serve and and help the needy in society.

I hope, through your website and appeal to other alumni and family members, they can follow suit and come forward to become tutors of the fourth intake which will begin in Sept. this year and which we aim to expand to cover more schools and help even more students. Alumni who are interested to help can go to the following website in which more details of the project are given and contact me at the telephone and email address contained therein for enrollment:

http://tswetp.wahyanhk1971.org/

Last but not the least, we are also indebted to Fathers Alfred Deignan and Stephen Chow as well as the two WY principals, Dr. So Ying Lun and Mr. Warren Chung, for their unfailing support and regular appeal to alumni to join our project. My thanks also go to Mr. Sze Chung Fai, Jeff, a WYK alumni and the Political Assistant to the Secretary for Education for his valuable advice in setting up this project.

I hope our partnership will continue to flourish, more alumni will join our project and more under-privileged kids will benefit from our joint effort. Many thanks.

 

Cheers,
Daniel Mak
Class of 1971 WYHK