Vol. 3 2012 Thistle Magazine - Jardines

Wellcome Hong Kong Promotes Family Activities
To support ‘International Day of
Families’ and encourage parents
and children to share more quality
time together, Wellcome Hong
Kong joined Heep Hong Society
(HHS), a charity dedicated to
educating children with learning
difficulties, and mounted a second
series of ‘I Can Do It! Shopping
Day’ initiatives.
In this, the second year of working
with HHS, the number of activities
have been expanded from ten to
43. The first ‘ I Can Do It! Shopping
Day’ event involved almost 70 HHS
students and parents. Highlights
Wellcome Taiwan Supports the Disadvantaged
Wellcome Taiwan has been awarded
a certificate by the Taipei City
Government in recognition of its
support of the disadvantaged, as
demonstrated by the company
exceeding the Government’s targeted
quota for hiring handicapped staff.
The certificate system introduced
this year by the Department of Labor
aims to help handicapped people
have more job opportunities and
encourage more businesses to hire
handicapped staff.
included a stimulating parent-child
shared shopping expedition to the
Tseung Kwan O Superstore with HHS
and Wellcome volunteers.
Altogether the initiative will enable
around 800 children to learn
appropriate behaviour in a lifelike
supermarket setting followed by
a workshop. Purchasing goods
with parents, queuing up to pay
and redeeming special offers are
among the topics covered and
upon successful completion of
the workshop, each youngster is
rewarded with a commemorative
certificate and Wellcome coupons.
Participants pose outside Wellcome Hong Kong’s superstore at Tseung Kwan O during its second annual
‘Family Shopping Day’.
Gammon Helps
Butterfly Reserve
From left: Yau Wing Kwong, Chief Executive,
Tai Po Environmental Association; Thomas Ho,
Chief Executive, Gammon; and Man Cher Fai,
Vice Chairman, Tai Po District Council celebrate
the successful completion of the footpath.
Gammon Construction together with
the Tai Po Environmental Association
has completed a nine-month footpath
restoration project at the Fung Yuen
Butterfly Reserve, which is a ‘Site of
Special Scientific Interest’ and home
to more than 80% of Hong Kong’s
butterfly population.
Tapping its expertise in concrete
production, 233 pavers were produced
by Gammon to form the pathways
and steps of the reserve by reusing
ten tonnes of waste material sourced
from various Gammon construction
projects. Fifty-eight Gammon colleagues
participated in six half-day paver-laying
sessions, amounting to 330 hours of
volunteering over the nine-month period.
Engineers from Lambeth Associates,
Gammon’s in-house engineering
consultancy, also provided professional
advice on construction work.
“Gammon embraces corporate
responsibility as an integral part of its
business model,” said Gammon Chief
Right: Bella Wu, Employment/Administration
Deputy Manager of Wellcome Taiwan’s HR
Executive Thomas Ho, “and this project
Department, receives the certificate from
is a good example of how to make that
Yeh-shin Chen, Commissioner, Department of
Labor, Taipei City Government. work to everybody’s benefit.”
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