Steering Committee

THE WAY PROJECT Steering Committee

Members of the Steering Committee are listed below in alphabetical order.

Chairman Dr. Eugenie LEUNG Acting Dean of Student Affairs, HKU Members Prof. Cecilia CHAN Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, HKU Ms. Peggy CHAN Director, Education for Good CIC Ltd Prof. Nelson CHOW Emeritus Professor, Department of [...]

Project Development Stages

THE WAY PROJECT Project Development Stages

WAY is a pioneering project with the overall objective of developing replicable solutions for social capital development first in the Southern District and eventually throughout Hong Kong. In order to develop a replicable model in four years, WAY will take a programmatic approach with four stages:

Stages 1 & [...]

Project Model

THE WAY PROJECT Project Model

The project model is designed to take advantage of tertiary institution’s capacity to facilitate positive changes in the Southern District and achieve the aims through close collaboration with district-based social groups and partners. The project model will also support HKU students, staff and alumni to apply their knowledge and skills [...]

Objectives

THE WAY PROJECT Objectives

The design principle of WAY’s framework is to build a district-based community network to empower the community to accumulate social capital and improve social mobility. The framework emphasizes on the mobilization and exchange of resources among different social groups in the Southern District to achieve mutual benefit. Through this exchange [...]

Background

THE WAY PROJECT Background

In 2012, the Chow Tai Fook Charity Foundation donated $10M to The University of Hong Kong to implement the “We Are With You Project” (WAY).

The WAY Project is a four-year community-based social capital development project in the Southern District. The objective of this project is to build a district-based community [...]