Housing Society Launches New Round of Community Care Campaign
with All-age Anti-stress Stretching Exercises to Set GUINNESS WORLD RECORDTM
The Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS) held a launch ceremony for its new round of Community Care Campaign focused on mental health at Lai Tak Tsuen today (10 December). Participants of all ages, including representatives of partnering organisations, residents of HKHS's rental estates, members of the HS Academy Alumni Club as well as student nurses, jointly performed a set of stretching exercises to promote physical and mental health and fuel the community with positivity.
At the ceremony, nearly five hundred on-site and online participants performed together a simple stretch routine led by the instructor of InspiringHK, setting a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for the "Most People Stretching Simultaneously Online and in a Single Venue".
HKHS Corporate Communications Director Pamela Leung said, "Recent surveys have revealed that the people are encountering varying levels of mental health problems due to the prolonged pandemic. In the next three months, HKHS will collaborate with ten partnering organisations to launch a series of online and offline activities, covering individuals, families and communities, offering mental health information and organising workshops for our residents and the community. We will also arrange home visits to the elderly living in our rental estates for physical and emotional check-up, and sponsor family-based fitness training courses, in order to arouse greater awareness of personal mental health and community care, maintaining physical and mental well-being for a positive life under the new normal."
This new round of Community Care Campaign aims to improve everyone’s mental health. It is also extended from the "Community Care Campaign" launched in response to the fifth wave of the pandemic early this year, with the following major components:
For more information, please refer to the programme booklet here. Below is the list of partnering organisations of the Community Care Campaign (in alphabetical order):
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Christian Family Service Centre |
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InspiringHK |
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Mental Health Foundation HK |
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Mind HK |
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New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association - newlife·330 |
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RunOurCity Foundation |
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St. James' Settlement |
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The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong |
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The School of Continuing Education of Hong Kong Baptist University |
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TWGHS Wellness Express |