Report
Since 2016 HKTX has been participating in Project Worldwide. In 2016, participants of the Annual General Meeting 2016 donated a sum of money to Oxfam. In 2017, a number of alumni contributed some food gifts they received during the Chinese New Year and we donated the items to Food Grace. In 2018, two Interim Administration Unit (IAU) officers donated blood to the Red Cross in our Blood Drive.
This year, we organized a blood drive again for Project Worldwide in its 2019 edition. We asked our alumni in Hong Kong to donate blood to the Red Cross at any date within the month of February at any Red Cross Donor Centre. We asked them to send us a picture of themselves taken during the process.
5 alumni donated blood during February in response to our calling. The number is actually above our expectations considering the level of participation last year. We thanked each of the participants with a certificate of appreciation during the Texas Independence Day Dinner and Annual General Meeting which happened on March 2.
Invitation
“Texas Exes Project Worldwide” is Texas Exes’ community service initiative in which all Texas Exes chapters around the globe are asked to participate in a single day of community service anytime during the month of February. This international service initiative is an extension of an annual student-driven community service project on the UT campus known as “The Project” which also takes place in February and attracts thousands of UT students, alumni, faculty and staff to give back to the community.
Since 2016 HKTX has been participating in this initiative. In 2016, participants of the Annual General Meeting 2016 donated a sum of money to Oxfam. In 2017, a number of alumni contributed some of food gifts they received during the Chinese New Year and we donated the items to Food Grace. In 2018, two IAU officers donated blood to the Red Cross in our Blood Drive.
This year, we are organizing a blood drive again for Project Worldwide 2019. We would like to ask you donate blood to the Red Cross at any date you pick within the month of February at any Red Cross Donor Centre. We would like you to send us a picture of you taken during the process. We will make a collage with these pictures and will report our participation to Texas Exes.
To what we did for Project Worldwide before by clicking https://hktx.org/tag/project-worldwide/.
Support Project Worldwide, give blood, and may the ‘Horns be with y’all!
A list of the Donor Centres can be found in the following location:
https://www5.ha.org.hk/rcbts/enarticle.asp?bid=85&MenuID=5
Email address for photos:
mailto:projectworldwide2019@hktx.org