Aide et Action Hong Kong

Buy our cookie, help change a mother's destiny - Kick-off ceremony

Top left: Cheque presentation to AEA by Hang Seng Bank representative
Top right: Guests wrote the word "福"(Fortune) on cookies
Middle left: Ambassadors Tse Suet-sum, Ka-wing and Ngo Ka Nin tasted the freshly baked cookies
Middle right: Ambassadors learned to make cookies with baking teacher, Louisa Ho
Bottom left: Ngo Ka Nin accompanied Ms. Hui Pik Ngor to share her illiterate experience
Bottom right: Hang Seng Bank volunteers took group photo before cookie baking

Aide et Action(AEA) hosted a kick-off ceremony for the coming Mothers' Day cookie charity sale event today at The Institute of Culinary Arts, Cheung Sha Wan to raise public awareness on women illiteracy issues in Mainland China, as well as to promote the coming cookie charity sale event in May.

83-year-old illiterate grandma Hui Pik Ngor attended and shared her experience of being an illiterate mother which reminds us to value the free education granted nowadays. Grandma Hui is of Chaozhou origin and grew up in a rural village. Due to the outbreak of war, she was never able to attend school. After marriage, she migrated to Hong Kong with her husband who was a sailor, leaving her to care for their three children alone. Being illiterate, only knowing a few words that her sister taught her during the war, Grandma Hui faced many difficulties in daily life. For example, she has to seek others' assistance in writing letters to her relatives back home and she also dared not to travel away from her community.

This meaningful event was made possible by the generous support of Hang Seng Bank and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, and AEA would like to express its warmest gratitude to them for providing sponsorship and volunteer team to help with the cookies baking and charity sale. AEA would also like to thank Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School students for helping in organing this event. Together with Ms Margaret Kwan, Head of Cards and Unsecured Lending of Hang Seng Bank, they officiated the kick-off ceremony and also baked cookies, manifesting their stand to fight against women illiteracy and also appeal to the public to donate generously during Mother's day.

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