ABOUT OUR ORGANISATION
The Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation ('The Foundation') is a charitable organisation that was established to leverage the economic growth opportunities made possible by the Greater Bay Area concept. Guided by our mission 'For Our Youth For Our Future', the Foundation seeks to promote exchanges and support Hong Kong youth in their studies, careers and entrepreneurship in the Greater Bay Area.
YO PLACE is an integrated online and offline youth platform developed by 'The Foundation', that provides Hong Kong youths with information and services related to further their employment and achieving their dreams in the Greater Bay Area.
YO PLACE integrated platform mainly operated under a membership scheme, aiming to create close connection with young people in Hong Kong.
Members of YO PLACE can browse the information of the Greater Bay Area on the online website, learn about the services provided by the Foundation, apply to participate in related activities and rent offline facilities.
The offline platform is a centre that provides venues with multimedia facilities, ie. LED wall, projector screens and shooting equipment for youth activities, such as KOL live broadcast, training courses, workshops, cultural exhibitions, etc.
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With its tremendous development, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) offers endless opportunities to Hong Kong Youth. The “New Life in the GBA” lucky draw launched by the Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation (the Foundation) ran from April to September this year aimed to support the development of young people in Hong Kong in establishing new lives in the GBA. The lucky draw received positive responses from young Hong Kong residents aged between 18 to 45. All eligible participants held a valid Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macao Residents, had successfully registered as a YO PLACE member and held a “GBA Youth Card”. 521 prizes were drawn live at YO PLACE yesterday on 25 October.
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To mark the third anniversary of the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation (the Foundation) is delighted to launch the “New Life in the GBA” Lucky Draw (Lucky Draw), in order to strengthen the connection between Hong Kong youths and the Greater Bay Area (GBA), and to support their development in the region. The grand prize, sponsored by Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation, is a decorated residential apartment in Zhongshan City, valued at approximately HKD2.5million. Other prizes include spending credits up to HKD20,000 as well as travel allowances for all entrants.
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The prevalence of online shopping has created selling through live streaming into a new trend of e-commerce. In order to train Hong Kong youths to become a new generation of live streaming marketing practitioners, the Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation (abbreviated as Greater Bay Area Youth Foundation) and Television Broadcasts Limited (abbreviated as TVB) co-organise the “Top Sales 2 Live Streaming Academy” (《識貨2直播營銷學堂) which provides free live streaming marketing training courses to Hong Kong youths aged 18 to 35. Participants will have the opportunity to join the internship in the Guangzhou live streaming base. After six months of professional training, practice and assessment, outstanding students will be recruited to work in TVB for one year to explore further opportunities in the Greater Bay Area. The course is trained by professional coaches and star streamers in the industry including elites from Yowant Education, a subsidiary of Hangzhou Yowant Network Company Limited, one of the leading e-commerce training institutions in Mainland China, which compiles the course content appropriate for e-commerce industry in Hong Kong. Mr Wong Cho Lam, Chief Creative Officer of Television Broadcasts Limited will also share his live streaming marketing experience with the participants.
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"Dubbing Academy", jointly organised by the Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation (abbreviated as Greater Bay Area Youth Foundation) and the Television Broadcasting Limited (abbreviated as TVB), provided a free professional dubbing experiential course to Hong Kong youths who wish to pursue a career in the dubbing industry and helping them equip themselves to realise their dreams. The course was recently completed, the 20 participants being selected from the 100 qualifiers had smoothly finished the 10 dubbing classes and successfully graduated.
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Dubbing contest and star reality show “Dub of War” had been highly popular, with the performances of star contestants well received and intensely discussed among audiences and netizens. The show revealed the professional and rarely-known aspects of dubbing to the audiences. In view of this, Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation (abbreviated as Greater Bay Area Youth Foundation), with the mission of “For Our Youth, For Our Future”, has joined forces with Television Broadcasting Limited (abbreviated as TVB), which has been committed to professional talent training in the performing arts industry, to co-organize “Dubbing Academy”.
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To encourage young people with grassroots background to pursue their dreams of being animators, The Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation sponsored the “Hong Kong Youth Animator Development Project”, a one-year programme run by Act Plus Education Foundation. Students overcome numerous difficulties and challenges brought by the epidemic, including moving to online learning, having to use mobile phone for online classes since they have no computer at home and spending four hours in traffic for school. 26 students completed the programme with flying colours, some found their life goals in animation, and some are willing to cut their salaries by half just to become an intern at Act Plus. The “Hong Kong Youth Animator Development Project” ignites students’ enthusiasm in learning, develops their talent in art and sets the direction for their careers.
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In order to recognize and encourage local university students who demonstrate excellent academic performance with diverse development and a strong commitment to community service, the Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation has launched the 'For Our Future Scholarship'. This inaugural scholarship received nearly 300 applications from 13 educational institutions. The Scholarship panel judges include: Mr. Daryl NG, Chairman of the Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation; Mr. Tommy YUEN, Commissioner for the Development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau; Professor Lap-Chee TSUI, President and Founding Member of The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences; and Dr. Allan ZEMAN, Chairman of Lan Kwai Fong Group. The 15 finalists are all high achievers in their studies and are multi-talented. The panel judges were so overwhelmed by the remarkable quality of all 15 finalists that our foundation decided to extend the original number of awards from 10 to 15 to give our encouragement and support to the outstanding university students. Each student will be awarded a scholarship of HK$50,000 to support their academic studies and future development.
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Hosted by the Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation and the Greater Bay Area Homeland Investments Limited, supported by the Shenzhen Bell Education Group, ’GenRobo’ AI course is now recruiting students with a goal to provide them with free basic training in robot building, programming and artificial intelligence for 2,000 Form 1 to Form 3 students in Hong Kong. In addition, 200 students who excel in the basic course will have the opportunity to take the advanced course. They will then participate in a local competition and the winners will be able to join the national robot competition to connect them with the bigger world.
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The kick-off ceremony of the Run to Greater Bay Area Research Trip was held at Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Tuen Mun) on 25 November 2020. Sponsored by our Foundation and co-organised by the Up Knowledge Association and Ju Ching Chu Secondary School (Tuen Mun), the project took young people on research trips to the Greater Bay Area. The aim of the project is to arouse their interest in sports technology and deepen their understanding of the industry, with the ultimate goal of having Hong Kong students continue their studies or develop a career in the Greater Bay Area.
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The epidemic has lasted for months and affected people from all walks of life. In order to support organisations to maintain their youth services in times of adversity, Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation has launched the Anti-Epidemic Support Fund in April. Due to the continuance of the epidemic, another phase of the Anti-Epidemic Support Fund 2.0 with a total of HKD 2.1 million was granted to 21 youth organisations. Each has received HKD 100,000 in October. The beneficiary organisations cover a wide spectrum of youth services, including sports, career planning, science education, music, leadership training, culture and arts, such as Hoops for Hope Basketball Asia, Hong Kong Life Planning Association, Hong Kong Youth Science Academy, Gip Percussion Ensemble, APAC Youth Development Foundation and Sky Dancers.
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