HKUAA Ontario

SPECIAL PROJECTS

The HKUAA (Ontario) Chinese Cultural Heritage Award Fund

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Hong Kong University Alumni Association of Ontario

hereby acknowledges receipt of

Dollar Twenty Thousand only ($20,000) in Canadian Fund,

from Dr. Dexter Hung-Cho MAN

being donation to

our Chinese Cultural Heritage Award Fund

Thank you Dr. Man for your generosity!

In following its alma mater's example and tradition as a great learning institution, our Association aims to promote better understanding and closer ties among people, nations and cultures through learning about each other. Ontario is an increasingly diverse community. The Chinese-Canadian population is growing fast. It is important therefore to create a good understanding of the Chinese culture among citizens, not only to recognize heritage and build racial harmony, but also to develop a vision and capacity to effectively respond to the challenges of a multi-cultural society.

The Award Fund is committed to sponsoring post-secondary students and graduates in the promotion or pursuit of Chinese culture and heritage. The awards are given in the form of financial assistance to individuals and groups, irrespective of age, race and nationality, whose activities, studies or work (locally or overseas) identify and support the goals of the Award Fund.

With the proceeds raised, the Award Fund has provided scholarships to the winning teams of the Ontario Inter-Collegiate Chinese Debate Competition. The competition promotes maintenance of the use of Cantonese language and the art of debate amongst post-secondary students in Ontario.

The Award Fund has also established annual and perpetual scholarships with the International Student Exchange Office of the University of Toronto and York University. Each year and forever thereafter, a total sum of $3,000.00 is awarded to exchange students from University of Toronto and York University to study at the universities in Hong Kong including Hong Kong University. The recipient may be of any race, age or nationality.

Any individual or organization or program interested may make an application by sending the application form to our Association by mail and by fax to (905)-475-2494.

Ontario InterCollegiate Chinese Debate Competition (OCDA)

The Hong Kong University Alumni Association of Ontario has been a sponsor of the debate competition for 15 years.

The competition is organized by the Ontario InterCollegiate Chinese Debate Alliance (OCDA) that consists of eight Ontario universities, namely University of Toronto, York University, University of Western Ontario, University of Waterloo, McMaster University, Ryerson Univeristy, Queen's University and Wilfrid Laurier University. Their objectives are to promote Chinese culture, to enhance analytical mind and communication skills of the participants and to encourage academic exchanges among universities.

For more information of this competition and OCDA, please check out their website: www.ocda.net

If you are interested to participate or to get more information, please contact Augustine Chan at suzukirh.augustino@rogers.com .