ARM yourself with insect repellant, take a stick to beat back the encroaching flora and crawl through the undergrowth for a few metres into Sai Kung country park.
Surprise! Just minutes from the main road but hidden from view and totally overgrown is the shell of an old village school, windows broken, walls cracked.
Stop for a moment, breathe the fresh New Territories air, watch the butterflies quietly flitting and imagine how idyllic it would be to clear back the shrubbery revealing a playground, renovate the two-classroom building and equip it for 100 or so pre-school children to play, indoors and out.
For Sophie Firmin this is no gigantic leap of imagination, it is almost a reality. The Hong Kong Pre-School Playgroups Association (PPA) has just been granted the lease of the dilapidated Pui Choi school in Pak Tam Chung, Sai Kung at the nominal rent of $1 per year.
Now all the education charity has to do is transform it into a living, playing pre-school group. It would seem a daunting task to the fainthearted. But Mrs Firmin, a PPA volunteer charged with fund-raising, and herself a mother of five, including seven-month-old twins, is anything but that.
She runs her finger down a list of things to be done: clear the forest from the site, fence off the area, build a concrete footpath from the road, waterproof the roof, replace all the window frames, re-wire, re-plumb, tile. The list goes on.