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Spreading Love in the Festive Season – Privacy Commissioner’s Office Volunteer Team Visits the Elderly

As the Mid-Autumn Festival is around the corner, the Volunteer Team of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) made home visits to elderly couples and elders who live alone on 4 September. The Volunteer Team prepared 100 Mid-Autumn Festival gift bags, celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with the “old pals”, and shared with them tips on fraud prevention.
 
The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Privacy Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, said, “I am very grateful to the Wan Chai Methodist Centre for the Seniors for their support of our visit. Respecting the elderly is a traditional virtue, and I hope that the PCPD’s Volunteer Team, by visiting a group of ‘old pals’ before the Mid-Autumn Festival, could express our care and warm wishes for the festive season, and help foster a caring and harmonious society.”
 
The Privacy Commissioner and 15 members of the Volunteer Team visited the elderly’s homes in groups. In addition to chatting with the elderly and offering blessings, the team shared some anti-fraud tips and videos to enhance the elders’ awareness of fraud prevention. The Volunteer Team gave each elder a Mid-Autumn Festival gift bag, which included low-sugar mooncakes, festive fruits and some daily necessities.
 
Established in 2022, the PCPD Volunteer Team has made multiple visits to elderly centres to raise awareness of fraud prevention among the elderly. Recently, the Volunteer Team also helped prepare meal boxes for the needy. The Team donated anti-epidemic medical supplies to various social welfare organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Privacy Commissioner, Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling (fifth from the left of the first row), and members of the Volunteer Team prepared 100 Mid-Autumn Festival gift bags for the elderly, and took a photo with Ms Carolyn NG Lai-kwan, Service Head of Elderly and Health Service (fourth from the left of the first row) and Ms Peggy HA Suk-yee, Senior Manager (first from the right of the first row) of the Wan Chai Methodist Centre for the Seniors.


The Privacy Commissioner (middle) and the Volunteer Team visited the elderly door-to-door and shared fraud prevention tips with them.


The Privacy Commissioner (second from the left) and the Volunteer Team visited the elderly door-to-door and shared fraud prevention tips with them.