{"id":21213,"date":"2018-04-15T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T03:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/?p=21213"},"modified":"2024-01-16T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:35:11","slug":"hsmc-fund-run-for-u-promoted-community-engagement-and-solicited-public-support-for-hsmcs-university-title-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/hsmc-fund-run-for-u-promoted-community-engagement-and-solicited-public-support-for-hsmcs-university-title-application\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHSMC FunD Run for U\u201d Promoted Community Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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15 April 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

With over 1,200 participants, \u201cHSMC FunD Run for U\u201d took place on 15 Apr 2018 (Sunday) in Shatin. Organised by HSMC, it was the first community engagement cum fundraising run held by local self-financed higher education institutions. There were two race categories, namely 10 km Challenge Run and 3 km Fun Run. The College was delighted to have received enthusiastic support not only from the HSMC community, but also the general public, corporations, secondary schools and non-profit organisations. HSMC was also indebted to the substantial support from all the sponsors who helped make the event a great success.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHSMC FunD Run for U\u201d aimed at promoting healthy living and positive thinking in the community. Non-profit organisations were also invited to join to promote the idea of \u201cCare for All\u201d. Donations received will be used for HSMC\u2019s strategic development while an application will be made under the \u201c7th Matching Grant Scheme\u201d for more funds to the College.<\/span><\/p>\n

The guests of honour who attended the kick-off ceremony at the Hong Kong Sports Institute included: Mr Bernard Chan, Non-official Convenor of the Executive Council, HKSAR; Ms Rose Lee, Chairman of HSMC Board of Governors; Dr Moses Cheng, Chairman of HSMC College Council; Professor Simon Ho, HSMC President; Dr Lam Tai Fai, Chairman of the Hong Kong Sports Institute Board of Directors and Honorary Advisor of \u201cHSMC FunD Run for U\u201d Organising Committee; Dr Patrick Poon, HSMC Governor and Honorary Advisor of \u201cHSMC FunD Run for U\u201d Organising Committee; Professor Roy Chung, Co-Chairman of \u201cHSMC FunD Run for U\u201d Organising Committee; Dr Jacky Cheung, Co-Chairman of \u201cHSMC FunD Run for U\u201d Organising Committee; Mr Ho Hau Cheung, Chairman of Sha Tin District Council; Mr Luke Yuen, Deputy District Commander (Shatin District) of Hong Kong Police Force; Ms Agnes Lo, Company Secretary of Dr Tzu Leung Ho Charitable Foundation; and Dr Ma Kai Yum, Chairman of Carrianna Group Holdings Co Ltd.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Moses Cheng stressed in his remarks that \u201cHSMC FunD Run for U\u201d aimed at raising public awareness of the College, promoting healthy living and positive thinking in the community.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Simon Ho expressed the College\u2019s gratitude to all the support received and reiterated that HSMC, a non-profit self-financed higher education institution, needs social capital and wisdom to support its sustainable growth and continuous contribution to society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apart from the race, a Fun Carnival was held with exciting game booths, exhibition booths, new sports experience, free consultation with Chinese medicine practitioners, brilliant performances, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

HSMC would like to express its profound gratitude to all the sponsors<\/span><\/strong><\/a> whose substantial support had helped bring a very successful \u201cHSMC FunD Run for U\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Officiating guests at the kick-off ceremony: (from left) Dr Jacky Cheung, Mr Ho Hau Cheung, Ms Agnes Lo, Dr Lam Tai Fai, Dr Moses Cheng, Mr Bernard Chan, Ms Rose Lee, Dr Patrick Poon, Dr Ma Kai Yum, Mr Luke Yuen, Professor Roy Chung and President Simon Ho<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHSMC FunD Run for U\u201d received enthusiastic support from corporations, organisations and secondary schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cFun Carnival\u201d featured exciting game booths, exhibition booths and new sports experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"15 April 2018 With over 1,200 participants, \u201cHSMC FunD Run for U\u201d took place on 15 Apr 2018 (Sunday) in Shatin. Organised by HSMC, it was the first community engagement cum fundraising run held by local self-financed higher education institutions. There were two race categories, namely 10 km Challenge Run and 3 km Fun Run. […]","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":21232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[98,146,10],"tags":[],"topics":[],"month":[314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21213"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21258,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions\/21258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21213"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=21213"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=21213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}