Date: 24/7/2013
Four property volunteer teams under Urban Group, namely the City One Shatin Volunteer Team, Riviera Gardens Volunteer Team, Belair Monte Volunteer Team and Pok Hong Volunteer Team recently awarded the Leading Caring Estate Certificates in the Caring for Our Community 2012 Campaign organized by the Steering Committee on Promotion of Volunteer Service of the Social Welfare Department (SWD) to recognize their substantial voluntary services performed over the past year.
The Leading Caring Estate Certificate was awarded to volunteer teams formed by residents of various properties who had accumulated substantial volunteer service hours over the past 12 months to recognize their services to the community. The four properties under Urban Group had accumulated over 1,000 voluntary service hours in the past year.
Dr Edmond Cheng, Managing Director of Urban Group reveals, "Urban Group has been a member of the Sub-committee on Promotion of Volunteering in Community Organizations under the Steering Committee on Promotion of Volunteer Service of SWD since 2000. We assist in promoting volunteerism to the people of Hong Kong through joining hands with SWD in a number of projects to spread the message of caring for the community to all walks of lives in Hong Kong."
"Moreover, we encourage our staff members and customers to participate in various voluntary services organized by SWD. We have been supporting the Caring for Our Community Campaign since 2005 to mobilize our customers in the 335 properties under our service to form their own volunteer teams to serve the community. In addition, the Urban Group Corporate Volunteer Team has been awarded the Appreciation Certificate for Volunteer Service by SWD, demonstrating our contributions in implementing CSR among our staff members and customers," added Dr Edmond Cheng.
Urban Group is a leading property asset and facility services group in Hong Kong. Currently, the Group manages 335 projects territory-wide and is serving 1 million people in Hong Kong. The Group plays an active role in shouldering corporate social responsibility and its effort in caring for the community has been well recognized.
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