Inter-Dynasty Rice Race starts next week!

The Inter-Dynasty Rice Race 2018 is on! It is time again to collaborate with our community partner – Feeding Hong Kong (FHK), and help them in this year’s Inter-Dynasty Food Drive.

From 29 October to 9 November, students from each Dynasty will compete to have a total amount of rice (in kilograms) donated. The Dynasty with the most amount of rice by the end of two weeks will be crowned “Rice Race champions 2018”. Dynasty points will be added to the overall inter-Dynasty competition.

Reason for rice: Feeding Hong Kong (FHK) recently have not been donated sufficient amounts of rice from supermarkets and other suppliers. Compared to other surplus foods, rice is scarce and is important for FHK as it is a nutritious food that can be made into congees or meals for charities to redistribute. The decision to change our annual food drive into a rice race was made by the people in the FHK charity. Hopefully with this event, we would be able to contribute to this shortage and get rice out to the different charities as they help people in need.  

Therefore, we ask that students, parents and our wider community help support us in our drive for rice donations.

• Only rice is accepted, no other surplus foods will be accepted.
• Any brand of rice and in any amount is accepted
• The rice can be left in tutor rooms, and brought down any day of the week during lunchtime. Dynasty reps or assigned tutees can bring the rice down to MPH1. Students, part of the FHK CAS activity will be stationed at the MPH to collect the rice and sort them according to the Dynasty.
• For noticable donations by a single person or tutor group, credits will be awarded accordingly (E.g. 3 kg of rice = 1 credit given by tutors). Additionally, service certificates will be given by the CAS faculty to students who have gone above and beyond to help the cause.

We are aware that rice is heavy but even if it’s just 1 kg, it can feed a family for several meals.

The teacher in charge of this event is Mr Lancaster, and the student leaders are Amanda Nathan and Chi Chun Chan.