Mid-Autumn festival always emphasizes the importance of family gathering, but have you imagined that many elderly people maybe lack of such fortune to enjoy the festival with family members. 

YMC Community Services Group will cooperate with Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service to organize the Elderly winter home visit in the Fu Shan Estate. Our target is to show our care and concern to the live alone elderly before the Mid-Autumn festival and provide essential gifts to them to help them having a better enjoyment of the festival and living quality. It is also believed the share of past experience from the elderly during the visit can also give you some valuable advice to your life.   

If you can speak fluent Cantonese and willing to bring the joy to the elderly people, please come and join as the volunteer for this home visit.   

The Mid-Autumn Elderly Visit is free of charge and the number of participants is limited. The applications will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis with priority given to Registered Young Members. For registration, please register online at https://goo.gl/forms/lgQ0hqFTni8NZ9zU2. Successful applicants will be noticed individually. For enquiries, please contact Mr. Alan LAM via email: hkie.csg@gmail.com

Mid-Autumn festival is one of the most important traditional Chinese festivals of the year. The day falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month which traditionally believed when the full moon is the closest to ground, and Chinese people see the full moon as a symbol of perfection for family. People celebrate the day with family members reunion, appreciating the moon and the mooncakes together.

The Community Services Group of the YMC co-organised a volunteering event with Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service for home visits at Fu Shan Estate. The objective of the visit is to show our care to the elderly and deliver the gift bag with essential items for them to enjoy the festival. The event began with a brief introduction session from their staff, presenting our role of the day, important matters to be paid attention with and the programme of the day. The YMC team was divided into five small groups to ensure all the targeted elderly family could be served on the day.

While the visit took place before the super typhoon mangkhut hitting Hong Kong. The YMC team took special care on the precautionary measures against typhoon in the elderly’s homes and offered help to fix adhesive tape to the windows for those who had difficulties. The team had shown passion and love to the less fortunate through the delivering gift packs and interviews regarding their daily lives. 

Through the life experience sharing by the elderlies, the team noticed most of the elderlies would not have the luxury to celebrate the festival with their beloved families, while some with disabilities might even have difficulties to leave their homes. This reflects on how fortunate we are, while we still have health and opportunities to reunite with our families. At the end of the day, the priceless smiles on each of the elderly’s face had paid off the sweat and hard work inputted by the volunteers.