At the beginning of the new academic year, we believe you are keen on having a fulfilling and meaningful university life, making new friends and applying your classroom learning to contribute to the society in addition to working hard in your academic study.

SAO has established the “Me&U Community Caring Programme” for this purpose. Through partnering with different NGOs and external organisations, 4 service teams were initiated under the programme to unleash students' potentials and help contribute their knowledge by serving various vulnerable groups. We also encourage students' community engagement, nurture their positive personality traits and bring positive impact to the community. Apart from a series of training and services, students are required to draw the plan and execute their empowerment projects to facilitate their learning about specific social issues.

If you want to know a group of students who are dedicated to serving the community in the coming year and explore different social issues together, you are welcome to join us!(2024/25 Programme Highlights: HERE)

Learning Objectives

• Develop students' civic & moral responsibility through community services or projects locally or globally with on-going guidance
• Provide critical & structured reflection platforms to cultivate students' positive personality traits and personal development for self-actualization, such as integrity & ethics, empathy, self-management, forgiveness, gratitude, respectfulness, capacity to love or be loved and kindness
• Foster students' self-understanding and nurture students' social awareness and intelligence from diverse and open-minded perspectives on different local and/or global issues.
• Empower students to create positive social impact and benefit the community according to their service interests and personal abilities beyond academic boundaries.