The Hong Kong Award for Young People
- The Hong Kong Award for Young People
The Hong Kong Award for Young People, formerly known as The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, is one of the active members of the International Award Association. The Hong Kong Award was incepted in 1961.
The HKAYP, with its unique international principals, cultivates youngsters with perseverance and the spirit of self-challenge. The Award aims at encouraging and motivating young people aged between 14 and 25 to undertake a variety of voluntary and challenging activities. There are three levels of Award: Bronze, Silver and Gold. In order to complete the award, four sections must be completed: services, skills, physical recreation and expedition. Additionally, for the Gold award, a residential project is also required.
Currently, approximately 50,000 youth participants, 5,000 volunteers and 450 different schools, universities, uniform group youth organizations and community centers are running the Award Scheme in Hong Kong.[Cite web|url=http://www.ayp.org.hk/eng/stat.htm|title=HKAYP Website - About Us - Statistics|accessdate=2007-09-27] ]The Gold and Sliver Award of the HKAYP rank 3rd and 4th respectively under the Self Recommendation Scheme of the Joint University Programmes Admissions System[Cite web|url=http://leap.soa.org.hk/spr_sum06/main.htm|title=LEAP - Schools Operating Authority|accessdate=2008-06-10] . Since the inception of the Self Recommendation Scheme in 1999, 24 Gold and Sliver Award holders admitted to the Chinese University of Hong Kong through the Self Recommendation Scheme.]References
External links
* [http://www.ayp.org.hk HKAYP website]
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