HKMU Best Buddies Programme - Building Friendships with Intellectual Disabilities 2023/2024

The student recruitment and selection for the HKMU Best Buddies Programme – Building Friendships with Intellectual Disabilities 2023/2024 has concluded. The chosen students have been designated as “Best Buddies” and have successfully completed a series of training sessions and communication skills workshops on 23 Sep 2023. These workshops was facilitated by the participants from the previous year’s programme who now serve as mentors for this year’s cohort.

HKMU Best Buddies also have started their companion services with their assigned buddies from the Ngai Shun Home, a residential care home for intellectual disabilities. The selected students have also commenced their first companion service by fostering friendships with their assigned buddies from Nagi Shun Home on 7 Oct 2023. They built friendships through icebreaker games, arts and crafts, singing, and dancing and there were even tears of farewell from their buddies, showing the strong bond they have formed. Each Best Buddy is eagerly looking forward to the next activity, which will be planned and led by HKMU buddies again.