Where: 2/F, 121 Tung Lo Wan Road, Causeway Bay
What: Founded in 1978, the centre provides a wide variety of activities for residents, students and young people in Causeway Bay. It aims to help them become mature individuals who can contribute to the community. It serves schools and provides counselling, personal development, community services, after-school care, summer programmes and services for the elderly.
Volunteer: Shirley Chan Ching-wai, 23, is a final year psychology and counselling student at Shue Yan College. She has been doing volunteer work for the youth centre for nine years.
'At first, I visited elderly and mentally handicapped people. Then I took calls on the centre's hotline for HKCEE students. I now mostly help organise training courses and camps for new volunteers.
The hotline service starts the day before the HKCEE results are released and ends in mid-August. I once received a call from a girl who was so nervous about her exam results that she hadn't slept for the past 20 to 30 hours. We spent more than a hour talking and I asked what her favourite hobbies were. By the end of our talk, she sounded less nervous and more relaxed.
