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Volunteer in Hong Kong

The next service days

A service day is a few hours of volunteering: being useful to somebody else, with the rest of the club beside you. These are the next ones. Put your name down and we will write to you with the details.

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

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

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These are joint days with the Rotary Club of Hong Kong Island East.

  • Date to be confirmed

    Community service day

    Saturday 24 or 31 October 2026

    • Hong Kong, place to be confirmed

    A day of community service, shared with our sponsoring Rotary club. What we will be doing is announced with the date.

    The date is still being fixed. Sign up now and we will tell you as soon as it is.

  • Date confirmed

    Ocean Park day

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

    • Ocean Park, Hong Kong

    We spend the day accompanying pupils of Haven of Hope Sunnyside School round Ocean Park.

    It is a Friday, in working hours. Please check that you can come before you sign up.

  • Date confirmed

    Ocean Park day

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

    • Ocean Park, Hong Kong

    A second day accompanying pupils of Haven of Hope Sunnyside School round Ocean Park.

    It is a Friday, in working hours. Please check that you can come before you sign up.

Also in the calendar

  • Tuesday 27 October 2026, 21:00

    Club meetingOnline

    This month’s club meeting. Ask us for the link.

    Write to us
  • 8 to 14 March 2027

    World Rotaract WeekWorldwide

    The week each March when Rotaract clubs all over the world celebrate Rotaract. What we do that week has not been decided yet.

Six windows in the wheel, six areas of service

Turn the wheel. Each window is an area of service, with what this club has done there. The dates in each list are from the record; the photographs are from the club’s own public posts.

Use the left and right arrow keys to turn the wheel one window at a time. With a pointer or a finger, drag it or flick it.

  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.

Elders

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

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
A person in a purple padded waistcoat, seen from behind, reads from sheets of paper to a room of seated people who are listening.
December 2014 · Christmas service and visits to elders

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

Children

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

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
A hand strokes the head of a golden retriever wearing a collar of red and gold tinsel and toy antlers.
December 2012 · Christmas party at the Duchess of Kent Children’s Hospital

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

Students and careers

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

A speaker in a black dress holds a microphone in front of a whiteboard.
February 2013 · Vocational talk
A lecture hall full of seated people facing the camera; the people in the front row wear suits and corsages.
February 2015 · Joint Rotaract vocational talk

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

Animals

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

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
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

From the record

  • 2021: a project for abandoned dogs
  • 2021–2022: service at a stray-dog shelter, and its renovation

Neighbours in need

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

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
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

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

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.

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
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

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

On the day

How a service day runs

No two are the same. The shape is.

  1. 1

    Meet

    We meet at a named place at a named time. Both reach you by email before the day.

  2. 2

    Brief

    Whoever is leading the day explains what we are there to do, who it is for, and what each of us will be doing.

  3. 3

    Serve

    The work itself, alongside the rest of the club. Nobody is left to work it out alone.

  4. 4

    Eat together

    Afterwards we sit down to eat, and talk over how the day went.

A school or organisation with a day in mind

If you run a school, a home, a shelter or a community group and could use a team of young volunteers for a day, write to us.

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Service is the first of four things a Rotaract club does

Joining gets you the other three as well.

  1. Service
  2. Professional development
  3. Leadership
  4. Friendship

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