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Asbury Methodist Social Service

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Where: 1 Sheung Kok Street, Tai Wo Hau, Tsuen Wan

What: Established in 1960, the group provides a wide variety of social services to children and youths as well as the elderly, the disabled and other disadvantaged people.

How: Call 2420 1073 or visit www.amss.org.hk for more information. The charity needs volunteers to carry out their services and to help with fund-raising activities such as flag selling, which will be held on March 18 next year. It also encourages volunteers to propose innovative and fun ways to serve the community.
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Volunteer: Fred Lui Hoi-leong, 20, is a social work student at Polytechnic University. He has been a volunteer for Asbury Methodist Social Service (AMSS) for about four years.

'My friends and I set up a volunteer group at AMSS. We started off by doing some basic social services, such as visiting elderly people or organising activities for teenagers. We later developed our own programmes and are helping to train new volunteers.

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About four years ago, I took part in a programme involving autistic children. The programme lasted for about four weeks, and towards the end of it, we showed the children how to entertain a group of elderly people.

The children danced and performed a drama for the elderly, and they all seemed very happy. After the programme ended, I decided that I wanted to be a social worker.

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