Past Projects

Project Mingde continued collaborating with Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Comparative Literature and World Vision Vietnam to launch a Vietnam Summer Internship Program from 10 June to 26 July 2019. 16 undergraduates (10 from Department of Civil Engineering, 5 from Faculty of Social Sciences and 1 from Department of Comparative Literature) participated in this program, which consisted of three components: (1) Participating in the construction works of swimming pond; (2) Voluntary teaching to Vietnamese school children; and (3) Conducting needs assessment at local villages.

A rounded-edge rectangular swimming pond (32.5 meters times 25 meters in dimension) was built to enhance the safety and sanitation of the existing natural pond for facilitating swimming education for Trung Dung commune and supporting the child drowning prevention scheme. With the knowledge learnt in-class, our students put understandings into practice. Throughout the construction, they gained some hands-on experiences, had a full understanding of the entire construction procedure, and played a role as resident site staff to communicate with different stakeholders of the project. In addition, they offered six child injury prevention lessons to the local school children, and conducted an assessment of the library we built last year to evaluate how it improved students’ reading habit.
 

Students actively participated in the construction works of the swimming pond

Participants gave voluntary teaching classes to Trung Dung Secondary School students

Some children were attending their swimming class in the new swimming pond

Group photo of HKU students and Trung Dung Secondary School students

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