_{About the Programme}

Launched in 2011, the Programme aims to provide mid-late teenagers with critical life skills in financial literacy, sustaining positive and healthy relationships, and career and life planning. The Programme also offers parent and teacher workshops to ensure a strong support network is in place for our teen participants.

Many critical life skills are neither addressed within the school curriculum nor at home. The outcomes are evidenced by rising debt and excessive consumption amongst teens, anorexia and eating disorders, juvenile drug abuse, increased teen pregnancies and compensated dating.

The Life Skills Programme aims to provide adolescent girls and boys with financial literacy training and a greater sense of financial responsibility, guidance in positive well-being and healthy relationships, as well as career and life planning to empower them to reach their full potential. Our long-term objective is for the Programme to be incorporated as part of the regular school curriculum.

Our 2011-2012 pilot Programme targeted 400 Form 3 and 4 students from three schools and expanded to 2,000 Form 3 to Form 6 students from ten schools in 2012-13 school year, followed by 3,000 Form 3 to Form 5 students from fifteen schools in 2013-14. Additionally, we also launched our series of workshops reaching about 1,000 teachers, parents and social workers. Over the course of the academic year, students participated in 6-10 hour-long workshops integrated into the school curriculum and extra-curricular initiatives.

Building on our current successful experience, the Programme will operate in another three year cycle with the addition of our training kits for students and teachers, as well as an e-learning platform to be launched in the third year, we will reach a much larger population through this built-in sustainable model.

Providing Skills That Allow Youth to Flourish

The Women’s Foundation’s Life Skills Programme has touched the lives of over 7,000 students, parents and teachers. The report captured the key learnings from the first three years of the Programme and examined critical issues facing by youth today, facilitated interventions, and the outcomes. Most importantly, the report also highlighted important messages and learnings for the community at large.

Life Skills Programme

Back to Programme Index

Get Involved

Website Disclaimer

Privacy Policy

The Women’s Foundation (TWFHK) is committed to protecting your privacy and to ensuring that all personal data provided to us is handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO).

Purpose of collecting and keeping personal data
1. TWFHK will use personal data collected from you for the purposes for which it was collected.
2. TWFHK may use your personal data (including your name, job title, company name, contact details such as email, telephone and fax numbers, credit card or other payment details and other information collected in your profile such as the event(s) or programmes you participated in or wish to participate in, the areas of interest you indicated, reviews, feedback and opinions and any other personal data you choose to provide to us etc.) for one or more of the following purposes including, but not limited to:
(a) provision of services for donations, sponsorship, events, programmes and volunteers through this Website or any other means (including enquiries, and provision of any related payment, identification, registration, billing), administration, management and communications purposes including surveys, feedback collection and research whether via mail, electronic mail, telephone, SMS, fax or online etc.
(b) the provision of updates and direct marketing (via fax, email, direct mail, telephone or other means of communication including social media or e-newsletters) in relation to our programmes, research, courses, volunteer opportunities, workshops and events, promotions, offers, opportunities for sponsorship, networking and donations, advocacy campaigns, opinion sharing, news updates, information and other related services or benefits provided by TWFHK and/or other partners or organisations.
3. TWFHK will not collect any personal information that identifies a visitor to our website (or associated websites) (“Website”) unless specified otherwise (for example in the sign up to an e-newsletter, event registration, donation, download or access to research reports or other tools or resources). Your visit to our Website will record the server information including IP address and the pages visited. Such information will be used to prepare aggregate information about the number of visitors to the Website and general statistics on usage patterns.

Privacy of personal data and disclosure
1. Your personal data will be kept strictly confidential and securely kept.
2. TWFHK will not divulge, sell, trade or rent personal data to external parties for their own purpose.
3. However, TWFHK may disclose or transfer such personal data where such disclosure is necessary to satisfy the above purpose, or a directly related purpose, for which the data was collected (including without limitation debt collection or payment services, telecommunications. IT and computer services, marketing, communications, distribution or other services), to:
(a) any third party service provider and any other person under a duty of confidentiality to TWFHK including without limitation, TWFHK staff, agents and other organisations which have undertaken to keep such information confidential; and
(b) any person or entity to whom TWFHK is under an obligation to make disclosure under laws or guidelines issued by regulatory or other authorities.

Access and correction of personal data
1. The provision of your personal data to TWFHK is on voluntary basis.
2. In accordance with the Ordinance, you may request access to your personal data held by TWFHK. A charge may be imposed to cover the cost of photocopying personal data at the rate approved by the Secretary for Financial Services and Treasury.
3. You are entitled to request access to and correct your personal data held by TWFHK, and request us to cease to use of your personal data at any time without charge.
4. You may opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions contained in the marketing communications or contacting TWFHK at info@twfhk.org with your full name and contact details.
5. If you are in a EU Member State, you have the right, subject to certain limitations or restrictions, under the data protection laws in the EU to:
(a) request access to and rectification or erasure of your personal data;
(b) obtain restriction of processing or to object to processing of your personal data; and
(c) the right to data portability.
Individuals in the EU also have the right to lodge a complaint about the processing of their personal data with their local data protection authority.
6. Data access or correction requests should be addressed to us in writing to:
The Women’s Foundation
9A Chun Wo Commercial Centre,
23-29 Wing Wo Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.
Telephone: +852 2592 8265
Email: info@twfhk.org

Changes in this privacy policy
TWFHK reserves the right to update, revise, modify or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time as TWFHK deems necessary so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the Website. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose

Enquiries
Should you have any enquiries about TWFHK’s Privacy Policy and practices, please contact info@twfhk.org or +852 2592 8265.

May, 25 2018

About the Programme

Life Skills Programme

Get Involved

Search

Website Disclaimer

_{About the Programme}