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Feb 2017 - Jun 2017

New Employment Journey for Senior Citizens

District:Wan Chai

Organisation:
Wan Chai Methodist Centre for the Seniors

Key components:
  • Organise training workshops on job searching and interviewing skills for persons aged 50-69 and provide labour market information.
  • Provide employment training courses and placement opportunities on coffee-brewing, catering services and office support to persons aged from 50 to 69.
  • Organise age-friendly job expo to provide job information and on-site job interviews by employers, provide training courses information and on-site enrollment by organisations, invite elderly people successfully re-joining the job market and employers adopting age-friendly measures at workplace to share, and hold award presentation ceremony to recognise age-friendly employers.

AFC domains:
Communication & Information
Civic Participation & Employment
Number of direct beneficiaries:490 people

Approved funding:$ 300,000

Initiated and funded by:

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Project partners:

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • The University of Hong Kong
  • Lingnan University
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Jockey Club Institute of Ageing
  • Sau Po Centre on Ageing
  • Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies
  • Research Centre for Gerontology and Family Studies
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