INTER-DYNASTY COIN CHALLENGE 2018 – MONDAY 14 MAY

West Island School will be celebrating their first ever ‘Domestic Helper Day’ where we will be acknowledging, celebrating and saying thank you to the work that domestic helpers do, along with educating our students on Migrant Workers in Hong Kong.

This year we are responding to the desperate need of one of of newest community partners and Tang’s Dynasty charity; Bethune House. The Bethune House Migrant Women’s Refuge is a registered charitable institution under the companies ordinance in Hong Kong. It was established in 1986 under the Mission for Migrant Workers to provide charitable assistance and social counseling to the needy migrant workers and their families. Bethune House has recently lost a huge sponsor and with that, find themselves in a devastating financial crisis as of May 2018.

There will be a number of activities in support, however, the main event will see the return of our popular and hugely successful ID Coin Challenge. Last year, students competed in their Dynasties to raise over 30,000 HKD for our schools community charities!

Students will go about sourcing HKD loose change, bring into their tutor base and place into the Bethune House coin collection cans over the next few weeks. The event culminates with all the coins being laid out in a specially designed Dynasty area. Each Dynasty (year group) will be given a time slot where they lay as many coins as a tutor team as they can in their Dynasty stamp area, in the given time. Coins must be laid one at a time inside the marked out Dynasty stamp.

Once all of the year groups have placed their coins into the area and the time is up, the Dynasty who has laid the most coins (and raised the most money) in the assembly slot will be crowned the ID Coin Challenge champions of 2018 .

Students are encouraged to source any loose change that might be sitting in pots, shelves, pockets and bring with them on the day. The only coins that can be used in this competition are the following:
20c
50c
1HKD
2HKD
5HKD
10HKD

Dynasties compete to bring in the most money – We encourage our students to start looking for loose change now, and get those coins ready for your Dynasty charity challenge on Monday 14 May 2018.

Good luck!

Mr Madden