International Service Leadership Programme

Background

'International Humanitarian Service Leadership Program (ISLP)' nurtures university students as youth humanitarian leaders with global humanitarian vision and actions within their ability. The program facilitates students to develop caring and concern projects on humanitarian issues. As a group of new power, they spread the message about humanity to their peers and the general public in Hong Kong so as to raise their awareness about different humanitarian issues. They can then present positive impact to change the world.

Feature

ISLP provides an open and self- initiative platform, aiming at allowing university students to initiate various care and concern actions by themselves, from exploring on humanitarian issues, to planning, organizing and implementing services locally and overseas services, so as to nurture the youth as a power of humanitarian service.

ISLP past and existing concern and care projects

Since 2005, International Humanitarian Service Leadership Program (ISLP) has collaborated with numerous universities in Hong Kong and National Red Cross/ Red Crescent Societies in other regions to facilitate various student initiatives related to various humanitarian issues such as on refugees, left-behind children, water safety and hygiene etc. Both participants and institutions have positive feedback on the international and local services of ISLP

Cooperative Institutions	Project Name
Hong Kong Baptist University	Caring for the South Asians in Thailand BU Sri Lanka Psychological Enhancement Scheme
The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Vietnam Agent Orange Caring Project
The University of Hong Kong	Step To Embrace People in Sri Lanka (STEPS)
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Embrace Africa
The Education University of Hong Kong	Cambodia landmine victims caring project Refugee Concern in Ethiopia
Hong Kong College of Professional And Continuing Education (PolyU CPCE)	Heyuan Voluntary Teaching and Community Service Project
The Open University of Hong Kong	Yunnan Voluntary Teaching and cultural study project Heyuan Voluntary Teaching and Community Service Project
ISLP Volunteer team	Sichuan Caring Project Yuan Liu Voluntary Teaching Project Nepal water safety and hygiene project “WASH” Vietnam water safety and hygiene project

"Refugee Concern in Ethiopia"
Since 2008, ISLP has co-organized "Project Infinity Cambodia Trip" with The Education University of Hong Kong. It aims to let students explore the landmine issue and also understand the poverty problem being suffered by the Cambodian children. In 2009, the students formed "Refugee Concern" for further studying the refugee issues. They visit local refugee center and also communicate with local Students on refugee issue. It can advocate peers to provide care and support to refugees in both Ethiopia and Hong Kong. Now, the project is still in progress.

Refugee concerned group from The Education University of Hong Kong carried out their care and concern project in Ethiopia and visited the local Refugee Service Center

Volunteers were having an exchange session with volunteers of Ethiopian Red Cross Society.

Volunteers were having a humanitarian issues exchange session with Ethiopian youth.

Refugee concerned group from The Education University of Hong Kong carried out their care and concern project in Ethiopia and visited the local Refugee Service Center

"Heyuan Voluntary Teaching and Community Service Project"
ISLP and Hong Kong College of Professional And Continuing Education of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University launched the "Heyuan Voluntary Teaching and Community Service Project" in 2005. Thereafter, participating students have gone there regularly for voluntary teaching in schools. They are concerned about the living and studying environment of local left-behind children, and also hold different local community service such as visiting elderly who living alone.

Volunteers from the College of Professional And Continuing Education of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University visited Guangdong Heyuan and express their care to Elderly who living alone.

Students visited Guangdong Heyuan and express their care to stay-behind children.

Volunteers bring a new learning experience to left-behind children by providing activity approach lesson.

"Yunnan voluntary teaching and cultural experiential project" and "Guangdong voluntary teaching project"
Since 2016, ISLP co-organized humanitarian care and concern actions in mainland China with OUHK. The scheme mainly serves children of rural areas. In the first year of the scheme, 35 volunteers from OUHK participated in the voluntary teaching and cultural experiential activities in a primary school of Yunnan. After back Hong Kong, volunteers would like to extend their teaching spirit to more places in China. So, they form a new "Guangdong voluntary teaching program" and it aims to extend their love and care to everywhere.

Students from The Open University of Hong Kong taught at the Primary School in Yunnan and shared joyful moments with left-behind children.

"Water safety and hygiene concern project"
Since 2014, ISLP volunteers started to concern about water and hygiene problem in developing country. They visited Nepal and Vietnam before, which aimed to reduce the illness caused by water pollution and poor hygiene environment by promoting hygiene and water safety knowledge to local citizens and children. In 2019, ISLP volunteers would like to start a humanitarian service project in Nepal again to achieve protecting human life.

"Vietnam WASH project" is conducted by ISLP volunteers, aiming to provide water hygiene education and community cleaning service.

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