On April 23, our Club conducted our meeting online, the second time ever. This is in part a response to government’s social distancing guidelines and recommendations to avoid large group meetings, and in part a response to Rotary International’s recommendation to move all physical meetings to online platforms. Michael Yan, Charter President of our Interact Club of King’s College, joined our Zoom meeting to share with us his life as a university student affected by the current pandemic. According to Michael, many classes are moved online, with a lot of focus on pandemic and related topics. As a medical school student at HKU, he found it unfortunate that all the lab and hands-on training had to be postponed. As a Riccian, however, he found more time to spend with his fellow hallmates, and made sure he stays healthy by exercising lots. He even participated in our Amity Walk for Living Water 2020, and logged more than 20,000 steps on the last day of the Amity competition. He also managed to volunteer his time, including delivering surgical masks to homeless and elderly with Professor Lai Ching Lung and his volunteer team.
On April 18, Past President Grace, Past President WT, Past President Angela and Maurice, and Grace’s friend Yvonne distribute hot meals at Holy Cafe. Over 200 meals were distributed that day. Past President WT and Maurice used their engineering skills to assemble face shields, which were given to the elderly.
Our Club conducted our first-ever online meeting on Zoom on April 9. This is in part a response to government’s social distancing guidelines and recommendations on avoiding large group meetings, and in part a response to Rotary International’s recommendation on moving all physical meetings to online platforms. It turns out that many of our members are already quite familiar with the platform, and most had no issues logging on and joining the meeting. After the meeting room opened at noon, members started trickling in. Some arrived early to make sure that audio and video issues were addressed before the official start of the meeting at 1pm. Others just joined early to chat, just like our fellowship time before our physical lunch meetings. The Zoom meeting followed our usual agenda items, with members taking turns to report items of which they are in charge and/or managing. President Mark reported on the statuses of various District and Club events. Past President Grace explained and reported on the treatment of Annual Dinner Gathering Fund already received from members. Past President Webster explained the mechanics of Amity’s Walk for Living Water 2020, and reported that he already started to engage our youth to participate.…
Amity Foundation has launched “Walk for Living Water 2020”. The Walk aims to: (1) encourage exercises even as we stay home and/or keep social distance; (2) increase awareness of potable water shortage around the world; (3) raise funds for Amity’s future projects. One can participate in one of the following two ways: (1) Register as a participant in the walk. The participant then records and uploads a day’s activity to Amity’s Whatsapp account or Facebook. Those who register enough “steps” win certificates, while those with the most “steps” win prizes. There is no restriction on where to walk, when to walk and/or with whom to walk, except where government social distancing guidelines and restrictions apply. To register, please click here. The deadline to register is April 24. (2) Donate directly to Amity’s fundraising campaign. Our Club has a main fundraising campaign, while Past Presidents Webster and Lily have set up their own fundraising campaigns. If you are donating, please donate to any of these campaigns so that we can track how much our Club, as a whole, is contributing to this event. The deadline to donate is June 15.