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Adopt-a-Beach
FEHD and Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB) have been organising various programmes and activities to promote the Clean Hong Kong message to students at all grades. The activities include:

incorporating the message on environmental hygiene into the primary and secondary school curricula;

organising school talks on health education;

arranging visits to FEHD’s Health Education Exhibition and Resource Centre at the Kowloon Park;

developing a home page on improving the school and neighborhood environment; and

organising beach cleaning programmes, e.g. “Adopt-A-Beach Scheme” and other extra-curricular activities.
http://www.fehd.gov.hk/pleasant_environment/chk/2000.html

Food Drive
It has been a tradition in Hong Kong Academy to connect with the local Hong Kong community through their annual Food Drive Event. During the food drive week, students of all grade levels bring in non-perishable food and drinks for donation to the local community in need. Older students will also gain an opportunity to go into the community involved, distributing food and interviewing the Hong Kong locals. In the previous years Hong Kong Academy have visited Hong Kong elderly home in Chai Wan, and have also visited the homeless shelter in Mong Kok under the Street Sleeper program ran by the Salvation Army.

Mao Ping Trip
Mao Ping One Country, Two Schools Hong Kong Academy and Mao Ping Primary School Lei Shan County, Guizhou Province, China Hong Kong Academy opened its doors in September 2000. A few of the goals of Hong Kong Academy related to community service were to: imbed students learning in the culture of its host country, China, so that students would have a sense of pride and respect for the country in which they were living, give back to the local community, educate students globally in order to help students develop an identity as a global citizen, and to nurture students that are open minded and work to understand different perspectives. It is the hope that by introducing students to the power they have to make a positive impact on the lives of others at a young age will increase the chance of these children continuing to execute this power into adulthood. As of spring 2002, Hong Kong Academy parents, students, and teachers have impacted the lives of the families in Mao Ping Primary School in Lei Shan County, Guizhou Province, China. It took three trips for the bond to be sealed, but it was clearly evident to all once it had happened. It was not known when this connection would occur, but it is so clear now, that others can be taking on such a project. Those first students will know that their impact has spread wider than they ever thought imaginable.