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“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”

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With best wishes to Po Leung Kuk and the FCC Hong Kong Charity Fund, our partners in the Tai Wai Education Services Centres.

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We come together to help, in the short-term and the long-term.

Community organisations often have both shortterm and long-term needs. Short-term needs may be satisfied with cash grants – long-term needs often require more than that.

The Macquarie Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, addresses both. Since its inception in 1985, the Macquarie Group Foundation together with Macquarie staff have given more than $US200 million dollars to community organisations around the world.

These funds are used in diverse ways. In Hong Kong, our staff support Po Leung Kuk through donations

and fundraising (matched by the Macquarie Group Foundation) and volunteering in our mentoring program (pictured). The Macquarie Group Foundation also supports Po Leung Kuk with a three year grant from 2012 for its Sports Program. In addition, Macquarie is committed to supporting Po Leung Kuk and the Foreign Correspondent Club Charity Fund scholarship program.

We are proud to highlight the hundreds of Macquarie staff who donate thousands of hours of support to notfor-profit organisations, acting as volunteers, advisers and members of boards and management committees in every country in which Macquarie Group operates.

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The English Language Centre (ELC) is happy and proud to support the FCC/PLK Language Training Programme and Children’s Learning Centre.

The ELC helps PolyU students bridge the gap between their experience in tertiary education and their entry into the workplace. Our varied language enhancement provision helps prepare graduates to enter the workplace with the English language skills necessary for them to operate efficiently and effectively.

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To find out more about the work of the Centre, please contact Dr Viola Wong (ecvwong@polyu.edu.hk).

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