YMCA of Hong Kong was established in 1901 as a

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, headquartered in Salisbury Road,

Tsim Sha Tsui Tsim Sha Tsui, often abbreviated as TST, is an urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed from the Hung Hom Bay now east of Tsi ...

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. It is dedicated to the furtherance of

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and

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in the Hong Kong and international community. It serves the community with cares for the people in needs and provides sponsorship for the events in Hong Kong. It is well known with its service of toy recycling for children.

History

YMCA of Hong Kong is different from Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong. They are two independent organisations in Hong Kong. Both of them can be traced back to the same

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founded by George Williams in

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, but founded differently in Hong Kong and provide different directions of service. When YMCA of Hong Kong was established in the early 20th century, most of its members were foreign nationals. With its role set as an "''International YMCA''", it will further be distinguished with the Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong and the

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of Hong Kong due to different target groups of serving. Its founding director was Mr. Charles Montague Ede, and its

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was Mr. John Livingstone McPherson from 1905 to 1935. The recent general secretary is Mr. Peter Ho.

Centres

The Salisbury

The Salisbury located in Tsim Sha Tsui was built in 1924 as a five-storey square building. It was rebuilt in July 1989 as a 16-storey building. Sports facilities include water sport facilities, indoor comprehensive sports hall (1 standard basketball court, 4 standard badminton courts and gymnastics facilities), 2 standard squash courts, dance studio, fitness centre, health centre and indoor rock climbing. Special sports include floor curling. The Salisbury hotel with 303 rooms and 62 suites is also among them. It has become one of the best hotels in Hong Kong with Harbor View Suite which is not so pricy and suit tourists with budget plans. The dining at the hotel is popular. File:YMCA_of_HongKong_TST_HQ.jpg, The Salisbury File:The SalisburyYMCA of Hong Kong 201706.jpg, Lobby of The Salisbury File:HK YMCA TST Club Foundation Stone HK Governor Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs Jan-1924 a.jpg, YMCA of Hong Kong Tsim Sha Tsui Club Foundation Stone launched by the

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Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs in January, 1924 File:Salisbury Road in 1930s.jpg, The Salisbury Road Center in the 1930s, with Old Kowloon Fire Station and

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Cheung Sha Wan Center

YMCA Cheung Sha Wan Center is located at Cheung Sha Wan. It was put into service in December 1998. The main service targets are children and young people, parents, the elderly,

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, people in need,

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n and low-income families in Sham Shui Po. The Centre has a computer resource centre, a multi-purpose computer training room, a home and home helper training room, a hotel room staff training room, a vocational skills training and testing centre, a dance and recreation room, a classroom and multi-purpose activity room, an auditorium and counselling and parent-child park.

Education

Continuing Education

YMCA College of Continuing Education is located in the 6th floor of The Salisbury in Tsim Sha Tsui, a non-profit education founded in 1992. It also hold various of projects for educating young people about environmental protection.

Secondary school

YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College (), abbreviated as YHKCC, is a secondary school located at Tung Chung, Lantau Island, Hong Kong operated under the Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) of the Education Bureau. It is the first secondary school sponsore ...

is a

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located at

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Lantau Island Lantau Island (also Lantao Island, Lan Tao) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located West of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, and is part of the New Territories. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands Di ...

operated under the

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(DSS) of the

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. It is the first secondary school sponsored by the YMCA of Hong Kong. This school was founded in 2003. The school develop based on the principles of YMCA, which include the aspects:

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, aspiration, resilience,

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and service. The five core values of the school include building a community that cares, serving one another in

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ing ourselves and others, being responsible and acting with

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. The school provides flexible homework to students. This school is said to be ''an

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at low costs'', i.e. a

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DSS college offering international learning environment and

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curriculum. In the international atmosphere, 73% of the students in the school are international students, who come from over 40 countries. Over 40% of the school's teachers are from overseas. File:HK_YMCAOfHongKongChristianCollege.JPG,

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can be found in the rear side of YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College

Primary school

San Wui Commercial Society YMCA of Hong Kong Christian School is located in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon. It was co-organised by the YMCA of Hong Kong and San Wui Commercial Society. Since 2013, it was an English co-educational private primary school. From 2016, the school provides local curriculum for

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and

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, and international curriculum for

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and other subjects, as well as

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subjects. Recently, the school practices ''Learn by doing'' corresponding to the

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Kindergarten

There are currently four non-profit-funded full-time

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s operated by YMCA of Hong Kong, namely: *''YMCA of Hong Kong Christian International Kindergarten'' at Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui opened in 1992, *''YMCA of Hong Kong Christian International Kindergarten (West Kowloon)'' at Cheung Sha Wan,

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opened in 1998, *''YMCA of Hong Kong Christian Nursery School (Farm Road)'' at Farm Road,

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opened in 1999 and *''YMCA of Hong Kong Christian Kindergarten (Kai Ching)'' at

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, Kowloon City District opened in 2015. All of them are located in Kowloon. They provide pre-school and primary leisure education services like arts and cultural courses.

References

External links

* {{Yau Tsim Mong District Charities based in Hong Kong

Youth organisations based in Hong Kong YMCA buildings Protestantism in Hong Kong 1901 establishments in Hong Kong