Community Projects
Engaging Youth in Chinese Tea Culture Project
This two-year tea art promotion project sponsored by the Tin Ka Ping Foundation aims to promote and inherit Chinese tea culture, enhance the youth's understanding and interest in traditional Chinese culture, and improve their etiquette, cultivation, and health habits. The program organises various activities that reach universities, secondary schools, and communities, promoting social interaction and exchange among individuals of different age groups through the shared experience of traditional Chinese culture and lifestyle.
The main objectives include increasing awareness and interest in Chinese tea culture, promoting traditional Chinese culture, enhancing spiritual cultivation, fostering etiquette, encouraging the consumption of Chinese tea for health benefits, and cultivating talent for the Chinese tea industry. The program's activities range from basic tea art courses and lectures on Chinese poetry and tea culture to workshops aimed at engaging students in Chinese cultural practices and promoting tea art within the community.
![Engaging Youth in Chinese Tea Culture Project](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/CHITEA%20Logo.png)
Engaging Youth in Chinese Tea Culture Project
![Understanding Types of Tea Leaves](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/Tea-1.jpeg)
Understanding Types of Tea Leaves
![Understanding the Functions of Tea Sets and Etiquette](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/Tea-2.jpeg)
Understanding the Functions of Tea Sets and Etiquette
![Learning Tea Brewing Techniques.](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/Tea-3.jpeg)
Learning Tea Brewing Techniques.
![Lecture on 'Chinese Poetry and Tea Culture'](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/Tea-4.jpeg)
Lecture on 'Chinese Poetry and Tea Culture'
![Students and Happy Ageing with Chinese Medicine Project](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/920c690/SHACMP-logo.png)
Students and Happy Ageing with Chinese Medicine Project
This 3-year project is funded by Tin Ka Ping Foundation, which will train up young people to become “Health Ambassadors of Happy Ageing with Chinese Medicine” and “Promotion Leaders of Chinese Medicine” to provide community services to elderly, and organise talk series on Chinese medicine to community members, which aims to promote traditional Chinese culture and knowledge of Chinese medicine across all age groups.
Students and Happy Ageing with Chinese Medicine Project: Celebration of Achievements Ceremony
Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Promotion
![Acupoint Introduction](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/920c690/%E5%AD%B8%E7%94%9F%E4%B8%AD%E9%86%AB%E6%A8%82%E9%BD%A1%E8%A8%88%E5%8A%83_%E5%81%A5%E5%BA%B7%E6%8E%A8%E5%BB%A3%282%29.jpg)
Acupoint Introduction
Care for Carers: Intergenerational Services and Research Project
Lingnan University Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies (APIAS) has received donations from the "Thanksgiving Elderly Research Fund" and funding from the "Research Matching Grant Scheme". Starting from March 2020, the Institute will launch a two-and-a-half-year project called "Caring for Caregivers: Inter-generational Service and Research Program" (the Program). The Program aims to train LingU students to participate in research projects to understand the stress of caring for elderly individuals with chronic illnesses and physical and mental disabilities. It also aims to integrate a set of support service recommendations tailored to the needs of caregivers, and to introduce relevant support service information to caregivers through home visits. Additionally, the Program will regularly organize online seminars for caregivers to enhance their health knowledge and skills, as well as to access community support information, in order to strengthen their caregiving abilities and confidence.
![Report on Social Support and Needs of Caregivers for Mental Illness and Cancer](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/Carer%20Book.png)
Report on Social Support and Needs of Caregivers for Mental Illness and Cancer
View detailsStudent team goes to the elderly care centre to serve caregivers.
![Alleviate Caregiver Stress through Art Therapy](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/22112022-2_edited.jpg)
Alleviate Caregiver Stress through Art Therapy
![Chat with caregivers](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/221117_1_edited.jpeg)
Chat with caregivers
Chat with caregivers
Life Stories of Older People Project
Life Stories of Older People’ is a one-year project funded by The Board of Management of The Chinese Permanent Cemeteries (BMCPC). It aims to help young people strengthen their resilience and build an optimistic outlook in life through learning the life experience of the elderly. By reviewing and narrating life events, the elderly will learn to accept their past and enhance their sense of self-identity. Young participants will create life education booklets to pass on the positive messages from the older generation to the younger generation, as well as to encourage other elderly to live a happy life.
![Interview with the Elderly about their Life Stories](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-02-03%20at%2010.04.11%20AM.jpeg)
Interview with the Elderly about their Life Stories
![Book: Life stories of older people](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-02-03%20at%2010.05.06%20AM%20%282%29.jpeg)
Book: Life stories of older people
View details![Senior social worker explains interviewing precautions to students.](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-02-03%20at%2010.05.06%20AM.jpeg)
Senior social worker explains interviewing precautions to students.
![Life Story of Older People Project Recognition Ceremony](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-02-03%20at%209.58.25%20AM%284%29.jpeg)
Life Story of Older People Project Recognition Ceremony
![Professor Dickson Chan, Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies, delivers the opening speech.](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-02-03%20at%209.58.25%20AM.jpeg)
Professor Dickson Chan, Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies, delivers the opening speech.
![Elderly and students sharing their experiences of participating in the event.](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-02-03%20at%209.58.25%20AM%282%29.jpeg)
Elderly and students sharing their experiences of participating in the event.
![Elderly people share how to overcome adversity](/apias/hssm/f/page/79387/827p466/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-02-03%20at%209.58.25%20AM%283%29.jpeg)
Elderly people share how to overcome adversity