Youth Volunteer Network (VNET)

Introduction

The Youth Volunteer Network (VNET) is one of the service units of The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (HKFYG) and was founded in 1998. The aims of VNET are to promote the spirit of volunteerism in Hong Kong and to encourage the young people to participate in voluntary services and to serve their community. We warmly welcome anyone between the ages of 6 to 35 to join us.

On invitations, VNET helps to recruit and train volunteers for many large-scale activities, for example in 2004, 330 young volunteers from VNET helped for the 5th Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival and 150 volunteers for the World Children's Choir Festival in Hong Kong in 2005. Volunteers made the most of this valuable opportunity to broaden their horizons by receiving guests and participating groups from various overseas countries. Moreover, VNET has mobilized 6,800 young people to get involved in Global Youth Service Day in April 2005. 106 organizations/schools have joint in and provided volunteer services in their communities. In order to recognize the contribution made by the volunteers, VNET has developed a 5-level badges award system based on the number of service hours volunteered. Moreover, an "Annual Volunteer Awarding Ceremony" is being held every year to recognize the contribution made by the volunteers.

Since its operation, VNET has successfully established itself as a strong helping force to help the needy and improve the community. Up till March 2007, the number of volunteers registered has exceeded 110,000 and total service hours contributed by them was over 1.2 million in the year of 2006-2007. The VNET also organizes training courses for volunteer teams of commercial firms and government departments like Motorola, Citic Ka Wah Bank, Hong Kong Cable Television Limited, and Rating and Valuation Department etc.

VNET offers many opportunities for our young people to serve the community. Since its operation, the total service hours of our VNET volunteers has exceeded 3,900,000 hours by March 2007.

Contact us :
G/F, Tsui Shek House, Ping Shek Estate, Kowloon.
Tel : 2169 0032
Fax : 2893 3034
Email : yvn@hkfyg.org.hk
Website : yvn.hkfyg.org.hk