Life Education Ambassador Programme 2024/2025

In recent years, Hong Kong has seen a concerning rise in its suicide rate, reaching 14.5 in 2022 – significantly higher than the international average of 9.0. This alarming trend underscores the pivotal role of life education initiatives.

To address this issue, the Student Affairs Office is organizing the “Life Education Ambassador Programme 2024/2025.” The programme aims to train students to become life education ambassadors through a series of training and service-learning experiences. These ambassadors will then promote a positive outlook on cherishing and respecting life to the public.

The programme themes are centered on the different stages of life: “Birth,” “Aging,” “Illness,” and “Death.” This approach allows the ambassadors to engage in meaningful discussions on life issues with secondary school students, visit and take portraits for the elderly in care homes, support patients and their families in hospitals, and embark on a life and death exploration trip to Taiwan to reflect and learn. Finally, the ambassadors will share the programme outcomes with the public, helping to raise awareness and foster a greater appreciation for the value of life.

[Programme Content]

1. Participate in a series of training activities organized by the SAO, becoming student leaders and putting life education into practice.
2. Visit secondary schools to share life education topics, and explore the meaning of life and establish a positive outlook through classroom activities with teenagers.
3. Take individual and family portraits for the elderly, leaving them with cherished memories.
4. Serve hospital patients and their families, allowing them to temporarily set aside their worries and bring positive energy to their lives.
5. Go on a life and death education exploration trip to Taiwan, exchange and share with different groups.
6. Organize a life education exhibition to raise students’ awareness of life education and provide a space for them to reflect on life.

[Exposure]

1. Become a life education ambassador through training and service-learning, develop leadership skills, enhance communication, and achieve holistic development.
2. Understand social issues through service-learning, respond to needs through action, and cultivate empathy and civic responsibility.
3. Meet like-minded peers and participate in community service together.
4. Receive a commendation certificate from the SAO, which will give priority to participate in other service-learning overseas exchange programmes and training activities.

[Who Can Join?]

All full-time undergraduate students who are interested in life education are welcome to join. Cantonese proficiency is required for this programme. To complete the programme, participants are required to attend all training sessions and services.

[Programme Schedule]