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  1. Elders Time with older people: a project in a public garden, yum cha, and visits.
  2. Children Parties and days out. The Christmas party is the most repeated entry in the record.
  3. Students and careers Career talks and interview skills, for students a few years behind us.
  4. Animals Abandoned and stray dogs: a project, days at a shelter, and a renovation.
  5. Neighbours in need Whoever in the city is nearest and in need: families, people who are homeless, people short of a meal.
  6. Friends abroad Rotaract clubs exist all over the world. This club has hosted one from Japan, served in Chiang Mai, and taken part in a regional conference at home.

Rotaract Club of Hong Kong Island East Back, and ready to serve.

A club of young adults in Hong Kong, since the 1980s.

From the record

  • 1988: an anti-smoking campaign
  • 1991: career talks for students in Eastern District
  • 1993: a project for elders at Chater Garden
  • 1999–2001 and 2004: Christmas parties at a school for the deaf
  • 2004: the Asia Pacific Regional Rotaract Conference in Hong Kong
  • 2006–07: visits to low-income families in Tung Chung
  • 2006–07: hosting a sister Rotaract club from Japan
  • 2007–2012: a Christmas party every year at the Duchess of Kent Children’s Hospital
  • 2012–13: yum cha with 40 elders
  • 2012–13: ‘Ace an interview’, a talk for 60 students
  • 2016: visits to elders with St James’ Settlement
  • 2019–20: a visit to a home for elders in Yuen Long
  • 2020: a service trip to Chiang Mai
  • 2021: a project for abandoned dogs
  • 2021–2022: service at a stray-dog shelter, and its renovation
  • 2021: a night walk to meet homeless people in Causeway Bay
  • 2021–22: recovering surplus food
  • 2022: Hike for Hospice
  • 2025: a vocational talk
  • November 2026: the Ocean Park days

Who we are

A community-based club: we belong to no university or college. Our members can come from anywhere in Hong Kong, and what they share is the work. A new board was elected in September 2026, so there is room for you to shape what this club becomes.

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What Rotaract is

  • Service

    Volunteering: days spent being useful to somebody else, planned and run by the members.

  • Professional development

    Talks, skills and contacts for the first years of a working life.

  • Leadership

    A club small enough that you will be asked to run something.

  • Friendship

    People you would not otherwise have met, in Hong Kong and in Rotaract clubs abroad.

Ten people in white T-shirts with navy scarves stand in two rows, each raising three fingers of one hand; several are laughing.
September 2019 · Installation

Six areas of service

Six kinds of work this club has done before, and means to do again. Choose one.

Elders

Time with older people: a project in a public garden, yum cha, and visits.

From the record

  • 1993: a project for elders at Chater Garden
  • 2012–13: yum cha with 40 elders
  • 2016: visits to elders with St James’ Settlement
  • 2019–20: a visit to a home for elders in Yuen Long
Four people stand at the front of a room, two holding sheets of paper and one a microphone, facing rows of seated people seen from behind.
2014 · Visiting elders

Children

Parties and days out. The Christmas party is the most repeated entry in the record.

From the record

  • 1999–2001 and 2004: Christmas parties at a school for the deaf
  • 2007–2012: a Christmas party every year at the Duchess of Kent Children’s Hospital
  • November 2026: the Ocean Park days
A row of people in Santa Claus suits and white beards stand on the steps outside a building entrance; some wave, one rings a hand bell, and a green sack sits in front of them.
December 2010 · Christmas party at the Duchess of Kent Children’s Hospital

Students and careers

Career talks and interview skills, for students a few years behind us.

From the record

  • 1991: career talks for students in Eastern District
  • 2012–13: ‘Ace an interview’, a talk for 60 students
  • 2025: a vocational talk
A speaker in a black dress holds a microphone in front of a whiteboard.
February 2013 · Vocational talk

Animals

Abandoned and stray dogs: a project, days at a shelter, and a renovation.

From the record

  • 2021: a project for abandoned dogs
  • 2021–2022: service at a stray-dog shelter, and its renovation
Through the wire of a kennel, a pair of hands holds out a treat to a tan and white dog; a pale-coated dog stands beside it.
September 2021 · Service at a dog shelter

Neighbours in need

Whoever in the city is nearest and in need: families, people who are homeless, people short of a meal.

From the record

  • 1988: an anti-smoking campaign
  • 2006–07: visits to low-income families in Tung Chung
  • 2021: a night walk to meet homeless people in Causeway Bay
  • 2021–22: recovering surplus food
  • 2022: Hike for Hospice
Three people in face masks and work gloves sort leafy vegetables into white foam boxes in a kitchen; one wears a T-shirt printed HKIE.
September 2021 · Food recovery

Friends abroad

Rotaract clubs exist all over the world. This club has hosted one from Japan, served in Chiang Mai, and taken part in a regional conference at home.

From the record

  • 2004: the Asia Pacific Regional Rotaract Conference in Hong Kong
  • 2006–07: hosting a sister Rotaract club from Japan
  • 2020: a service trip to Chiang Mai
Several people paint a mural on a long wall: a blue sky with white clouds and birds, a green tree and a dark skyline; one crouches to paint the base of the wall.
January 2020 · Service trip to Chiang Mai

Back once again

Started again in 2010. And in 2019. And now.

3 times this club has been started again

  1. 2006. Five or six members, meeting on the Internet.

    2010

    Early in the year, no members at all.

    13 members within six months of starting from zero

  2. 2016–17. Nothing in the record.

    2019

    It starts again.

    15 new Rotaractors in 2019–20

  3. 2024. Nothing. The club is not mentioned at all.

    2026

    In September, a new board is elected.

    It is small. There is room in it.

Next service days

The next service days are on the calendar. Volunteer for one.

Countdown to the next service day

Ocean Park day · Friday 6 November 2026, 09:30 to 14:00

Ocean Park day · Friday 20 November 2026, 09:30 to 14:00

The next service day is waiting for its date.

  • Date to be confirmed

    Community service day

    Saturday 24 or 31 October 2026

    • Hong Kong, place to be confirmed
    • A joint day with our sponsoring Rotary club
    Tell me when the date is fixed
  • Date confirmed

    Ocean Park day

    Friday 6 November 2026, 09:30 to 14:00

    • Ocean Park, Hong Kong
    • A joint day with our sponsoring Rotary club
    Sign up for 6 November
  • Date confirmed

    Ocean Park day

    Friday 20 November 2026, 09:30 to 14:00

    • Ocean Park, Hong Kong
    • A joint day with our sponsoring Rotary club
    Sign up for 20 November
  • Club meetingTuesday 27 October 2026, 21:00 Ask us for the link.
  • World Rotaract Week8 to 14 March 2027 What we do that week has not been decided yet.
See the service days

Our numbers

Small numbers, and all of them true.

  • 130 children at the hospital Christmas party of 2007
  • 35 members by April 2013
  • 20 founding members
  • 6 areas of service
  • 4 Presidential Citations from Rotary International
  • 3 languages on this website
  • 1 Changemaker Award from Rotary International

Photographs

From the club’s own public posts, 2010 to 2022

Two people in work gloves crouch on a hillside planting a sapling; one wears a white hooded top with the hood up, and the other’s long hair hides the face.
2011 · Tree planting day
One person in a blue jacket fastens a ceremonial collar round the neck of another, who is smiling.
November 2014 · Installation
Four people sit together on rocks at the edge of a lake, their reflection in the still water; a wooded hill rises behind.
2015
A person in a blue polo shirt places a ceremonial collar over the bowed head of a person in a white T-shirt, in front of a projection screen.
September 2019 · Installation
A person in a cap and a work glove crouches to paint the foot of a mural with a fine brush, holding a cup of paint; a roller and tray lie beside them.
January 2020 · Service trip to Chiang Mai
In a tiled pedestrian subway, a person in a face mask bends down to set a jar on bedding laid out along the wall.
January 2021 · Night walk, Causeway Bay
Two people fit a white lattice panel to the front of a kennel; one, seen from behind, wears work gloves, and the other a cap and face mask.
2022 · Renovating the dog shelter

Our Rotary family

See how we fit together
  • Rotary Club of Hong Kong Island East

    Our sponsor since the club began. A Rotary club chartered in 1954.

  • District 3450

    The Rotary and Rotaract clubs of Hong Kong, Macao and Mongolia. We are in its Area 3.

  • Rotary International

    The worldwide organisation that Rotary clubs and Rotaract clubs belong to.

A seat with your name on it

Two fields and a tick. One of the board writes back.

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