Emails

__ Emails __ Here are some emails that we have sent to other people other than our mentor.

Dear Angelina, As you may already know the grade 5 at Hong Kong Academy explores an exhibition unit. Our topic, for the Exhibition, is on the Less Fortunate Children of Hong Kong. This group consists of five 5th graders that are very concerned about this topic. Our mission statement is: We, Alice, Anu, Katie, Monica and Julie Mei believe that every child has a right to a good childhood and a great future. That is why our mission is to help underprivileged children and make up for their lose of family and love.

We learnt about the HKSPC when you came to our school for an assembly and talked about the children there. We would love to interview you about your organization.

If you are available please see our attached schedule for our availability. The black squares are our specials, and we are not available then, and the white spaces are our free time.

Below is our Wiki. Feel free to explore! http://hkagr5-lessfortunatechildren-exhibition-2012.wikispaces.com/

We look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers, The Less Fortunate Children Group

Dear Hong Kong UNICEF,

At Hong Kong Academy, our school, we have been asked to choose a issue that we are concerned about. We, Katie, Alice, Julie Mei, Monica and Anu, are really worried about the children who have experienced family violence, loss of family and no education. That's why we have established the Less Fortunate Children group in which we were thinking of volunteering in orphanages and organizations.

Our aim is to go and volunteer at your organization but we would like to come with 6-7 people. We have checked your website for volunteering and have noticed that you only allow single volunteers. Would you be prepared to make an exception for our small group of willing volunteers? Also, we would like to know what type of volunteering you allow for 11 year-olds. In addition, where shall we have to go for the volunteering?

Please reply as soon as you can for we will be really glad that we will be able to help out at your huge organization.

Kind Regards, The Less Fortunate Children

Dear Julie,

I would be happy to be interviewed by your group for your project. I am free to meet you on Tuesday morning at 9:30am-10:05am if the school will allow me to park my car at the school. I have an appointment after meeting with you and need the use of my car. If you pass me a list of your questions, I can prepare any statistics you may require. On viewing your Wiki page I can see you have made a good start. I would happy to tell you more about HKSPC so you can update the information you have posted about the charity on your page.

Kind regards,

Angelina Lee

Dear Angelina,

We would be extremely happy to meet you on Tuesday at 9:30 - 10:00. We have organised a parking space for you at the HKA carpark.

We were wondering too, if it would be possible to come and visit and look at possibly helping out or volunteering in some way. We will meet briefly as a group today and will forward you our interview questions by the end of the day.

Regards, The Less Fortunate Group

Dear Monica, I look forward to meeting with you tomorrow morning. Thabk you very much for arranging a parking space for me. I have enclosed a copy of HKSPC's volunteer guidelines to hand to you. We can discuss what you would like to do, how many volunteers you expect to sign-up and what the age group is. Kind regards, Angelina

Dear Angelina,

We were so happy to have you come to our school to have a meeting with us yesterday. Unfortunately, our action needs to be completed by 30th March. It would be fantastic if you could organize so that we can come and volunteer before that day. If it’s not possible, thank you for your kind help and hard work to try to help us. Also, if we are allowed to volunteer after that due day, we would love to come and help some other time after March the 30th because we are still passionate and we all want to help the children.

Regards, The less fortunate group (Alice, Anu, Katie, Julie Mei and Monica)

Dear Angelina,

How's work? It's been a long time since we have heard from you, probably because you might be very busy setting up the volunteering for us. We really appreciate that.

We considered going to the Elderly home, in Kennedy Town, for a field trip. In fact, today we had a little activity session with them. However, we are still checking our emails everyday, hoping that you may reply. Seeing as you haven't replied, we have assumed that it is not possible to volunteer there.

Our Exhibition action is due on 30th March and we are concerned that we won't be able to complete this action as we wanted. We really wanted to help less fortunate children and are still hopeful that you will reply and help us to achieve our goal.

Please email us back as soon as you can. We may be free next Thursday and Friday, because next Monday we have another activity session with the Elderly Home. Again, we shall be hopeful if you can have us volunteer.

Kind Regards, The Less Fortunate Children Group

Dear Anupama and the Less Fortunate Group,

I have not forgotten your project completion date. I will hopefully have a reply for you by mid this week.

The centre staff is checking with the Nursery/Daycare closest to your school to ask if they can have the 5 of you visit their service so you can interact with the children in their activity. I have also mentioned to the centre coordinators, that you will write a report about your experience for your school project.

Thank you for your patience.

Kind regards, Angelina

Dear Less Fortunate Children Group, I have just heard back from Maggie, our centre coordinator for your volunteer visit. The Principal at our Nursery School in Mongkok centre advised that the 5 of you from the HK Academy Less Fortunate Children Group can come visit at __**Thursday, 29 March**__ between __**3-4pm**__.

The suggestion is that your group can prepare a little performance, song or story telling to show the children on your visit to 20 children at the centre. You may bring some healthy snacks, enough to divide amongst 48 children at the centre. On your visit you will get a feel for what children in the Mong Kok neighbourhood do at school. Many of these children can go to school because their school fees are paid for by the government and the programmes paid for by the charities funds. Your visit will be the highlight of their day.

You will need to be accompanied by an adult. Sorry, I will not be able to accompany you that day, as I have a prior commitment. Please kindly advise if the above arrangements are ok and Maggie, who is ccd on the email, will further confirm with the Principal.

Thanks and have a good weekend.

Kind regards,

Angelina Jane Sparks  KJH Teacher   Hong Kong Academy  http://www.hkacademy-k.info/kjh.htm  ||
 * [[image:http://mail.hkacademy.edu.hk/Icons/0 width="10" height="1"]] || Dear Exhibition group,   I would be happy to accompany you on your trip! We can talk about it on Monday when we meet.   Thanks Angelina for following through with the students at HKA's request. They will definitely be excited to be able to do this!   Regards   Ms. Jane

 Dear Ms. Jane,  You are welcome.  I take your email as a confirmation that the Less Fortunate Children Group accompanied by you will be going to the centre this coming Thursday.  Dear Maggie,  Kindly arrange the visit for them and liaise with Ms. Jane on any further coordination details.  Thank you.

 Wishing you all an informative visit. Good luck with your project.  Kind regards,  Angelina     Dear Monica and the Less Fortunate Children Group, Would just like to confirm with you the format of how we hope this volunteer visit can be carried out, we hope that your group can arrange to do some performances for the group of students at HKSPC (e.g. skits, song and dance, story telling etc.) The children at HKSPC will really enjoy the performance by the Less Fortunate Children Group. After your discussion and some planning, please kindly get back to me on your performance for the children as I will need to inform our teachers ahead of time as well. Thanks very much! Maggie

 Yes, 387 Portland Street Mong Kok Kowloon Hong Kong, is the address. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #aa24ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> Maggie, who iss ccd on this email, will welcome you at the centre lease also keep her direct phone number at hand, in case you need to reach her 31846677. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #aa24ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> The easiest way to the centre is to take the **MTR from Central going to Prince Edward station, get out at exit D**, which will indicate HKSPC. **Once on street level head right and you will see our centre at the crossing in front of you.**The choice of healthy snacks is very suitable. An further questions, Maggie will be happy to help you with.Hope you have enjoy the experience. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #aa24ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> All the best,Angelina ||
 * [[image:http://hkacademy.edu.hk/Icons/0 width="10" height="1"]] || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #aa24ff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">Dear Monica and the Less Fortunate Children Group,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"> Thanks, Less Fortunate Group (from Hong Kong Academy)     || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">   Dear Less Fortunate Group,     <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">        <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">    I am happy to hear you had a good visited and that HKSPC commemorative book was informative for your project. The book has been passed back to me. Thank you. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">       <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">    Thank you for inviting me to your exhibition. I would like to come and see it. Could I drop by at my own leisure to take a look either on 3 May in the morning? You would not need to accompany me, as I do not want to take time away from your class work. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">       <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">    If you can take some photos of your exhibition for Maggie to add to your centre visit record they would be nice to have. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">       <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">    Kind regards,     <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">    Angelina
 * [[image:http://hkacademy.edu.hk/Icons/0 width="10" height="1"]] ||     Dear Angelina and HKSPC,           Thank you so much for letting us volunteer at the Nursery Home. Our whole           group had a fantastic time with the children. Also, would you like to come           to our Exhibition? It’s on the 3rd and 4th of May. In addition to this, thank you for           letting us borrow your book. We have read through it and it gave us some           information about how HKSPC has changed over time and how it has become           better. We left your book at the Nursery home when we volunteered there.           You and HKSPC has been a great help throughout Exhibition.