07 Nov 2009
Towngas Volunteer Service Team Celebrates 10 Years of Service
As part of its ongoing active involvement in community service, Towngas held its 10th anniversary celebrations for its Volunteer Service Team, by offering soup pack to over 200 senior citizens at Tsz Wan Shan.
Boasting a long tradition of caring for the community as part of its corporate social responsibility, Towngas established its corporate volunteer team in 1999. Since then, the Towngas Volunteer Service Team has dedicated more than 200,000 hours of voluntary service to the community and current membership stands at around 900 members. In 2004 and 2006 respectively, Towngas established the Towngas Customer Volunteer Team and the Towngas Hair-cutting Team, taking its overall number of volunteers to 1,063 to date.
In celebration of the annual Senior Citizens' Day held in November, Towngas invited more than 200 senior citizens and television artiste Wayne Lai to join the "10 Years of Service" event. Participants engaged in activities, took photographs and played games. Towngas volunteers handed out gift packs and soup packs to the elderly.
For years, Towngas has dedicated a strong focus to serving the needs of the elderly community, such as regularly delivering long-boiled soup to elderly who live alone, providing elderly people with free haircutting and photo-shooting services, as well as installing safety rails in their homes. Other events held for the community include the annual "Rice Dumplings for the Community" and "Mooncakes for the Community". Over the 10 years in which these programmes have run, over 930,000 rice dumplings, 570,000 heart-shaped mooncakes and 150,000 bottles of warm soup have been distributed. In helping to promote social integration, Towngas has also organised programmes for new immigrants such as the "Cooking for Fun" English learning classes, which have benefited over 2,300 children.
Towngas Volunteer Service Team has dedicated more than 200,000 hours of voluntary service to the community and current membership stands at around 900 members since its establishment in 1999.
