2009年5月29日星期五

汶川特大地震徵文比賽

5·12”汶川特大地震,給與震中映秀毗鄰的銀杏鄉造成了巨大損失。在這次災難中,最為無助的無疑是那些在校讀書的學生和他們的家庭。無償資助是現今援助災區學生的主要(也許是唯一)方式,這在救災的早期無疑是不二的選擇。但如今已進入生產自救的重建階段,除了接受無償資助,我們更傾向于學生能以一種通過付出勞動、施展才藝的方式獲取資助。這即可以引導學生形成好學上進、健康積極的人生態度,發揮學生的創造力,也達到資助的目的。活動面向銀杏鄉所有在讀學生徵稿。學生圍繞“家”的主題寫一至兩篇文章,題目自擬。 按學生年齡段分成大學組、職高和中專組、高中組、初中組、小學組共五個組,分別設立獎項,頒發證書和獎金(或獎品)。
雖然現在正遇上金融海嘯的衝擊,還是深切希望各位善長仁翁,能本著四海皆兄弟的手足情誼,在這艱難時刻,幫上最小的兄弟的一把,讓他們也感受到人間有情,將來他們有機會時,亦可以把今天從別人領受的愛繼續分施出去。我相信,這也是大家的期望!

因此,當閣下看到上述呼籲後,請儘可能慷慨解囊,我相信無論多少,但只要是集眾人之力,相信最後也能成就。亦請大家將這個善願廣傳出去,讓目標可早日達成。

如有任何查詢,可直接電郵agnes-lee@newsoho.org.hk(發起人:李婉儀-新甦豪新生活協會執行委員)。
-- The SecretariatNew SOHOTel:8206 6016Fax:8206 6017

2009年4月22日星期三

The Seven Pillars of Health

Let us share with you guys. Don't you agree? How far can you reach, all 7 below or none . Share with all SOHO. be healthly physically at the age of fifty or approaching 50.



The Seven Pillars Of Health

1. Eat living (raw) foods as much and as often as you can.

You are a living body, so feed that body living food. Aim for a minimum 50% of your total dietary intake. Eat lots of fresh vegetables, raw or slightly cooked, and fresh fruit. Plants are filled with the nutrients, compounds and substances that promote life, something canned and frozen foods tend to lack. These essential materials allow the immune system to strengthen itself and work more effectively and more efficiently. Eat organic fruits and vegetables whenever possible to avoid pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and chemical fertilizers. Many of these residual chemicals are toxic or can't be digested, broken down or flushed out of your body. Pesticides and many chemicals bio-accumulate in the cells or bones in your body and eventually may trigger cancers or other toxic chemical disease reactions. Eat more salads. Salads are living foods. Every time there is a great discovery of a compound that helps cancer or other human maladies, it comes from the plant kingdom. You'll never find an amazing discovery that has been isolated in a pork chop. Eat light foods in the morning, preferably fruit or vegetables or juices. Go light at lunch. Lay off the heavy sweets in mid-afternoon. Don't eat heavy foods just before you go to sleep. Digestion requires more energy than any other function of the body, which is why you feel tired after eating, and why you rush to the coffee machine to perk you up. Eat a light breakfast. Leave about three hours without eating before you go to sleep. The body needs to rest, not work on digesting food that saps energy for healing.

2. Eat fruit correctly - alone - or before anything else.

Fruit is to be eaten alone. Alone, fruit turns into energy faster than any other food because it is the only food that does not require digestive energy. It should be eaten before anything else, not with or after a meal. When eaten alone fruit tends to be alkaline when it enters you stomach. However, when fruit is combined with wheat, meat, dairy or vegetables it turns to acid in your stomach. As a result, it doesn't get digested and instead ferments producing alcohol, which in turn promotes a build up of toxins over time, and is one of the primary causes of diseases. .

3. Reduce animal products in your diet.

Scientific evidence abounds showing that animal products, especially meats and poultry raised in feedlots with antibiotics and artificial hormones, are associated with more and more diseases. The human lymph system is not designed to break these artificial materials down so they can be washed away. They tend to remain and build up in our bodies, creating stockpiles of toxic chemicals that eventually can overwhelm the body's immune system. Dairy products are a real health hazard to many people. They contain no useful fibre or complex carbohydrates and are laden with saturated fat and cholesterol. Milk is often contaminated from pesticides, hormones, and antibiotics. Dairy products are known to be a major cause of allergies, constipation, obesity, heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. Many doctors including the late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's leading authority on child care, have spoken out against feeding cow's milk to children. Doctors have shown it causes anaemia, allergies, and insulin-dependent diabetes. More and more studies are showing that dairy products may actually cause osteoporosis, not help prevent it, since their high-protein content leaches calcium from the body. Dairy products create an immense amount of mucus in your body and your lymph system has to work overtime to rid the body of this unnatural product.

4. Drink lots of pure water every day.

The living body is about 70% water and through natural daily movement and evaporation your body loses 2 litres of water a day. You need to replenish water because your body does not manufacture it on its own. Drink about eight, 250 ml glasses a day to replace the 2 litres of water your body loses. The medical benefits of water are many - there are more medical miracles associated with water than any other substance known to mankind. It is the single most important food you can ingest and is known to help treat and even cure heartburn, backache, headache, upset stomach, diabetes, heart disease and even cancer. If you have any of these diseases, you may just be suffering from dehydration, along with 75 percent of the rest of the population.

5. Exercise & Sunshine daily. Exercise more and more every day till you change your lifestyle.

You can improve how you look, how you feel, and how much you enjoy every day. You'll get more energy from increasing how much you exercise even if you just start with a twenty minute walk every day. Physical activity is essential to get you heart pumping blood moving through your system to bring oxygen to your brain and flush toxins from your body. Movement and activity cleanses the lymph system. Find something fun and do it regularly. Get energized and spice up your life. Get sunshine on your body daily (early morning/late afternoon) with no sunscreen. Sunshine produces the highest quality Vitamin D in the world which has been proven as an effective preventative against many cancers.

6. Take fewer prescription drugs.

Medications are only necessary when you are sick. The rest of the time medications can compromise your physical and mental fitness. Drugs and medications may also interact with each other and produce negative side effects. The body can't break down many drugs easily. Like pesticides and hormones they build up in the muscle, bones, skin and cells of your body and interfere with normal body function. Study what you are taking and search out natural alternatives, and make the switch WITH YOUR DOCTOR'S GUIDANCE. Find a Natural Health practitioner to help you.

7. Think positive thoughts. Find the rainbow in everything.

You attitude is the most important factor that will influence what happens to you in your life. Develop and keep a positive attitude about everything. Be grateful for everything, for everyone and for every moment of your life. Wake up and start each day by repeating positive thoughts out loud fifty times! Watch what happens then! Ask who can I bestow love upon rather than who loves me or worse, who is out to get me today. Ask what I can do to make someone happy rather than why should I be happy today, or worse, who's going to yell at me and make my day miserable. Look for and focus on the good things around you. Choose to spend your time thinking about the good things you find. Take a "media break." Television and newspapers give an unbalanced, negative view of world events with a cute human interest story thrown in to make you feel better! See your life as a glass half full, rather than one half empty. Your attitude will make the difference in your life.


email from:Bob Cheung

2009年4月18日星期六

2009年4月29日東華三院獅友旅程啟動禮

2009年4月29日東華三院獅友旅程啟動禮






首批750貧童獲配對儲蓄
(星島)4月27日 星期一 06:30
(綜合報道)
(星島日報 報道)為培養貧窮兒童儲蓄理財習慣脫貧,政府推出的兒童發展基金先導計畫,七百五十名參加兒童本月開始首期供款,現有四個商界團體承諾配對捐款三百六十萬元,連同政府獎勵,首階段計畫已配對五百八十五萬元。有社福機構指,可替有特別問題如財困家庭調低每月二百元儲蓄目標,已安排四種不同供款金額。
  政府斥資三億元推動的兒童發展基金先導計畫,鼓勵每名兒童每月儲蓄二百元,商界以一比一等額供款,已有四個商界團體承諾配對捐款,全港七區首批七百五十名介乎十至十六歲兒童受惠,主要來自綜援 、低收入家庭及領全額學生資助的,本月起正式進行儲蓄,為期兩年。
  四個捐款的商界團體,分別為百仁基金、國際獅子會中國港澳三○三區、教會關懷貧窮網絡及英國 保誠保險集團,與六個社福機構合作及為兒童招募師友。
  勞工及福利局 發言人指,參加的十四至十六歲兒童佔七成,十至十三歲者佔三成,四個商界團體已承諾配對三百六十萬元,政府會在兒童完成計畫後,為每人提供三千元特別獎勵,即政府出資二百二十五萬元,首階段計畫已為貧困兒童配對五百八十五萬元供款。發言人又指,如遇經濟困難,兒童家庭可與有關機構商議,協定一個較低儲蓄目標。
  其中,英國保誠與香港青年協會 合作推伴我翱翔項目,青協督導主任鄧良順指出,在新界西已選出一百二十名低收入家庭兒童參加配對,由本月一日起儲蓄,青協已開設一中央銀行戶口予他們存入儲蓄,保誠兩年合共捐出五十七萬元。
  鄧良順指,本月未有家庭「斷供」,隨失業及減薪嚴重,家庭經濟壓力增,如有兒童家庭每月儲蓄二百元有困難,經會面了解,可酌情安排每月儲蓄低於二百元,即五十元、一百元及一百五十元,如家庭「斷供」一、兩期,事後需盡快補回,兩年後每名兒童獲共一萬二千六百元。
  獲百仁基金配對捐款的聖公會福利協會,已在東涌 區選出一百名兒童參加,一半人來自綜援家庭。協會指出,至今有一個家庭因成員有變而有供款困難,但未有家庭「斷供」。該會設有緊急基金,並可安排彈性供款。

http://www.cdf.gov.hk/tc_chi/whatsnew/wn_20090221_twgh.html

http://www.lwb.gov.hk/chi/speech/15082008.htm

http://www.hkcd.com.hk/content/2008-08/16/content_2139031.htm

2009年3月28日星期六

3月26日 巴菲特教了我們什麼剪影?

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出席者:Cindy Leung, Paul Wong, Barry Ngai, Antony Pany, Chris Chow,Summer Chan,

Mina Chan, Bob Cheung

2009年3月22日星期日

3-day Workshop on Traumatic Bereavement and Complicated Mourning: Concepts and Interventions by Dr. Therese Rando

資料來源:Joyce Tsui (New SOHO New Life Association Chairlady 2009)

3-day Workshop on Traumatic Bereavement & Complicated Mourning: Concepts & Interventions by Dr. Therese Rando

Dear all,
You are cordially invited to attend a 3-day Workshop on Traumatic Bereavement as a Form of Complicated Mourning: Conceptual Issues and Intervention Strategies When Trauma and Loss Suddenly Collide by Dr. Therese Rando organized by Centre on Behavioral Health, The University of Hong Kong and sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust.
Attached please find the pamphlet for your registration.

About the Workshop
This intensive, 3-day workshop investigates how the sudden, traumatic death of a loved one poses the mourner with challenging demands stemming from the volatile mixture of loss and trauma. The ensuing combination of grief and traumatic stress often severely disables coping, impairs functioning, and compromises adaptation. The dynamics found in sudden death from accident, disaster, suicide, homicide (including terrorism and war), and acute natural causes (from medical events such as heart attack or stroke, or from acute illness such as SARS or bacterial meningitis) typically lead to complicated mourning, which demands vastly different treatment approaches than if the death had been expected and natural. Drawing on cutting-edge information from the fields of clinical psychology, thanatology, and traumatology, Dr. Rando dissects the complex and often misunderstood experience of traumatic bereavement, and provides strategies and specific guidelines for effective clinical intervention.

About the Tutor
Dr. Rando is a clinical psychologist in Warwick, Rhode Island. She is the Clinical Director of The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss, which provides mental health services through psychotherapy, training, supervision, and consultation, and specializes in: loss and grief; traumatic stress; and the psychosocial care of persons with chronic, life-threatening, or terminal illness, and their loved ones. She also has provided expert witness testimony in legal proceedings involving illness or bereavement. Current professional foci include treatment of complicated mourning, loss of a child, the interface between posttraumatic stress and grief, anticipatory mourning, specialized intervention techniques in the treatment of traumatic bereavement, and the integration of EMDR into intervention with grief and mourning. She has published over 70 works pertaining to the clinical aspects of thanatology and has three upcoming books on treatment of traumatic bereavement.

Details of Course
Date: April 28, 29 & 30, 2009 (Tue-Thu)
Time: 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 4, Faculty of Medicine Building,21 Sassoon Road, HK Fee: HK$1,500
For details and registration, please refer to: http://cbh.hku.hk/ or contact us at 2589-0512 or email us at bhealth@hku.hk

Best regards,
Centre on Behavioral Health
PS : If you prefer not to receive any promotional emails from Centre on Behavioral Health, please reply to bhealth@hku.hk and you will not be included in future communication.

2009年3月13日星期五

東華三院獅友計劃領航員/義工招募

各位會員:

社會服務現正進行招募領航員/義工,服務對象為天水圍10至16歲青少年及其家庭,有關詳情,請參看附件。

預計活動日期:2009年4月(2年/20至24節活動)
領航員/義工可就興趣和相關的專長服務社區

東華三院賽馬會天水圍綜合服務中心
活動地點:新界天水圍天恆村停車場大廈6字樓2號單位
兒童發展基金先導計劃-----[獅]友旅程

項目
內容
理財教育:人力資源訓練、兒童理財、成人投資及理財


學術支援:英語運用、數學、中國語文、普通話、資訊科技


生涯 及 職業:行業/工作地點參觀、面試的談吐技巧、儀容衣著


個人成長發展:自我認識及人際關係、創意思維技巧、記憶力訓練


健康及生活管理:資訊科技、烹飪、運動訓練、音樂/藝術



預計招募人數:10至15人

新甦豪新生活協會將會被安排服務一間學校的學生,因此希望集合新甦豪會員專長和力量,一起籌辦活動,合共活動約20至24節(2年)。

現在計劃活動:
美善生命計劃將列入理財教育部份 (Fong Wong 及曾修讀美善生命學員)
學術支援:如何利用網上工具學習中英文(Mina Chan)
生涯及職業:人生新一頁/儀容衣著/面談技巧等等(Eric Tam
個人成長:待定(Summer Chan)
健康及生活管理:烹飪活動(Amy Wong, Pimer Kaw)、球類活動(Bob Sir/Sing 哥)

假如各位會員有興趣參與上述活動,歡迎與我們聯絡成為東華三院獅友計劃領航員/義工,或與我們聯絡!
Emil: newsohocommunityservices@gmail.com


Mina Chan
Community Services Director
9870 2508
http://newsohocommunityservices.blogspot.com/

2009年3月3日星期二

巴菲特教了我們什麼?

社區服務委員會 身心靈小組主辨 會員關顧委員會,商機研藝有限公司協辦


巴菲特教了我們什麼?

世界首富-巴菲特先生每年都慷慨地告訴我們他的'智慧之語',在面對金融海嘯的大潮,他又會給我們什麼啟發?我們從中會學到什麼?


日期:2009年3月26日(星期四)
時間:下午六時半(聯誼活動開始)
晚上七時(座談會開始)約八時半結束
名額:20人
對象:會員及非會員
費用:免費(隨緣樂助)
地點:新甦豪新生活協會會所
九龍新蒲崗五芳街31-33號
永顯工廠大廈三樓309室
報名:請電 8206 0616(秘書處)登記: 或電郵 office@newsoho.org.hk





巴菲特教了我們甚麼?-金融海嘯篇

新一年的開始,我們經歷了一個災難。我們的快樂被磨滅了,和平被威脅著,那可怕的金融海嘯影響了我們的家庭,我們的團體,我們的國家!每人都拼命地尋找那種可以治療他們的解藥解決那可怕而恐怖的金融危機。他們期盼著那些所謂的財務專家去拯救他們,但是卻忘記了造成這次金融災難的人就是那些專家!


在每一年,我也會以一些格言作為自己的座右銘。這個不成文的規定,卻能保証到我每一年都變得比從前更加睿智。今年,我在此正式地,誠懇地邀請你陪伴我一起學習,使我們在金融上的觸覺變得更加敏銳,投資的方向變得更加清晰,變成一個在金融上的智者吧!

文章來源:巴菲特
翻譯:Bob Cheung