2019 香港紅十字會「香港人道年獎」得獎感言 – 2019年9月28日

「人道精神，是一份同行的愛！這份愛，讓有特殊學習需要的年青人，可以跟普通人一樣，擁有一個公平學習與發展的機會；更重要的是，賦與他們能夠善用資訊科技的勇氣，突破身心殘缺與限制，改寫自己的未來。」

突破界限 與青年接軌

從事家庭輔導及IT社企的Tiffany，十多年來透過社交媒體，這個無分時空和地域界限的網上平台，她與患有自閉症、過度活躍症、讀寫、語言及智力障礙等有特殊學習需要(SEN)年青人家庭，建立了不一樣的互信關係。

SEN年青人學習進度較慢，職場上常被安排擔當一些簡單的工作，然而他們對感興趣的事物，却有非凡的天賦及創意！Tiffany認為，很多SEN年青人均極具IT潛質，只差了一個「被看見」的機會；她自2014年起，透過策劃「數碼共融職前培育計劃」，培養中港澳15至25歲的SEN年青人成為數碼時代的特殊人力資源。

發展潛能 創造未來

為協助SEN年青人提升職場團隊合作精神，Tiffany在IT培訓中加入了「職涯規劃」元素，並成立了三家IT社企；透過互聯網凝聚多達300名企業義工，為SEN年青人提供工作實習機會，提升團體合作精神，强化溝通表達與邏輯思維能力。

Tiffany鼓勵SEN家庭共同參與親子教育程式及卡通動畫製作，促進親子間彼此的深層溝通，寓教於樂。過去兩年，她帶領SEN年青人，以團隊模式策劃及製作了超過430個益智教育程式、功能遊戲及動畫視頻，用戶遍及全球221個國家。

 

“Humanity is a kind of love that shares among our peers and it helps adolescents with SEN to overcome their learning obstacles, making good use of IT and Multimedia to rewrite their future.”

Exceed limitations and connect with adolescents

Ms Tiffany Chan Wai-fun established one NGO and three social enterprises which specialises in family counselling and Information Technology (IT). For over a decade, through online social media that could go beyond time and location, Ms Chan has built a unique relationship of mutual trust with adolescents with Special Educational Needs (SEN) such as Autism, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), reading, writing, language and mentally challenged, etc.

Learning progress of adolescents with SEN are relatively slow-moving and they always being assigned simple tasks at work. However, they are showing remarkable gifted-talent and creativity when it comes to specific subject-matters which caught their advertence. Ms Chan considers many adolescents with SEN are gifted in IT, but missing opportunities to be fairly recognized. Since 2014, she has trained Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau 2000 adolescents with SEN aged 15 to 25 years old through systematizing wide range of specific “Digital Immersion Pre-employment Training Programs”, with a vision to transform them into unique human resources in the digital era.

 

Unleash potential and forge the future

In order to enhance the team spirit of adolescents with SEN, Ms Chan deployed behavioral compositions of “career planning” in the IT training and established three IT social enterprises. Through the internet, around 300 corporate volunteers were enlisted to provide internship opportunities for adolescents with SEN, in hopes of enhancing their team spirit, strengthen their communication and presentation skills, as well as their ability of logical thinking.

 

Ms Chan embraces parents to actively involved in her parent-child educational programs and produce cartoon animation, so as to learn through edutainment, and facilitate in-depth communication between parents and teenagers. In last two years, she had shepherded different teams of adolescents with SEN to design and co-create 430 educational programs, functional games and cartoon animation, with users in over 221 non-Chinese speaking countries.