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Reconnect, founded in 2014, is a Hong Kong non-profit charity organisation with Section 88, specialised in creating green nudging programs to advocate for environmental policy and the implementation of sustainable development goals in Hong Kong.

We strives to empower individuals to adapt eco-friendly habits through our specially designed green social media app, workshops and outreach programs. Our key signature program is the “Jockey Club Visualising Program” series which has served over 100 local primary schools in Hong Kong providing innovative environmental education and games. The programs successfully introduced reward programs for promoting green behaviour serving over 30,000 students and family members.

OUR CAUSE

賽馬會家校「睇現」可持續發展目標計劃

計劃透過AI手機應用程式及自媒體的新趨勢向30間小學推廣與實踐聯合國可持續發展目標。透過【睇現】APP, 超過20,000名用戶。截至活動中期，能源消耗已減少了19%，節省了超過20萬度用電量，大約等於港幣20萬元。超過10,000條用家心得分享影片。

#AI手機程式 #AI數據分析 #可持續發展目標計劃 #環保APP #節省20萬元 #10,000用家影片

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環境及生態局－大嘥鬼隊長

本計劃與環境及生態局合作讓7間香港小學參與「都市固體廢物收費」計劃，預先體驗「垃圾袋徵收費」運作，學習訂購適量垃圾膠袋，實行從源頭減廢，並善用分類回收桶。

#環境及生態局 #環境及自然保育基金 #都市固體廢物收費

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賽馬會校園低碳「睇現」計劃

透過AI網上平台在學校內實行慳電好行為，並在家中參與衣、食、住、行大挑戰比賽，減低個人碳排放，建立低碳的生活模式。本計劃有30間香港小學參與，合共節省了70萬度用電量，大約等於港幣70萬元。計劃裡透過一系列有趣味的活動，讓學生們親身體驗環保挑戰。

#AI網上平台 #AI實時數據分析 #節省70萬元

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環境及生態局－睇現大嘥鬼

本計劃有7間香港小學參與，幫助環境及生態局讓學生透過「都市固體廢物收費」計劃讓學生減少製造垃圾，並妥善處理可回收物，達致源頭減廢的目標。

#環境及生態局 #環境及自然保育基金 #都市固體廢物收費

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無冷氣日宣傳推廣

目的是鼓勵公眾們成為少用冷氣推動者之一，用創意呼籲各界日常減少使用冷氣，改變依賴冷氣的生活模式。

#無冷氣日 #減少碳排放

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賽馬會家校【睇現】可持續發展目標計劃 – 街訪

【睇現】可持續發展目標計劃進行了一系列的街訪目的為了提高公眾對低碳生活，氣候變化等環保議題的認識。

#可持續發展目標計劃 #賽馬會慈善信託基金 #『睇現』環保APP

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低碳生活宣傳推廣

目的是鼓勵公眾們透過日常生活中一些小習慣從而做到低碳生活。

#SDG #環保APP

賽馬會校園節能睇現計劃

本計劃有10間香港小學參與，合共節省了超過23萬度用電量，大約等於港幣25萬元。本計劃透過在學校安裝電量監測儀器，監測學校實時用電量，同時讓同學們參加一系列環保挑戰活動，配合監測結果讓學生們能「睇」到和「實現」到慳電成果，學習於生活中建立和實踐環保生活模式。

#SDG #環保APP

家家『睇現』減碳計劃

香港賽馬會社區持續抗逆基金－家家『睇現』減碳計劃透過回收舊電腦，轉贈了302部可重用舊電腦予低收入家庭的學童，讓他們在疫情中可繼續接受網上授課。同時讓學生們更加明白到環保概念，積極參與環保挑戰，一起減低個人碳排放，建立低碳的生活模式，受益人數超過1000個家庭。

#香港賽馬會社區持續抗逆基金 #回收舊電腦

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賽馬會家校『睇現』可持續發展目標計劃頒獎典禮

通過AI手機應用程式「睇現環保」邀請小學生在學校和家中進行各種環保挑戰，讓參加者建立良好節能習慣，實踐可持續發展的生活模式。計劃自啟動以來，在短短一個月已錄得超過30,000名參與者，包括學生和其家庭成員。並有超過10,000 條用家上載的心得影片。

#AI手機應用程式 #AI數據分析 #可持續發展目標 #香港賽馬會慈善信托基金 #30,000參與者 #豐富獎品鼓勵環保行為 #10,000用家影片

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校園節能「睇現」計劃 10小學全年節省逾25萬電費

環保教育慈善機構灌橋(Reconnect) 早前獲香港賽馬會慈善信託基金捐助，展開「賽馬會校園低碳『睇現』計劃」，以遊戲方式及透過智能裝置提供實時反饋鼓勵學生積極參與慳電行動。大會於12月14日舉行「賽馬會校園低碳『睇現』計劃」開幕暨頒獎典禮，公佈計劃成果。

#校園節能「睇現」計劃 #香港賽馬會慈善信托基金 #節省25萬電費 #豐富獎品鼓勵環保行為

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低碳「睇現」計劃頒獎禮小學齊創省電佳績

計劃的獨特之處在於提供一個網上平台來幫助學生管理自己的碳排放，讓家長和同學們從低碳生活開始，合力做好環保工作。「整個賽馬會校園低碳『睇現』計劃」有30間小學參與其中天主教聖安德肋小學由今年9月到10月，進行了兩個有關學校的慳電活動，在短短2個月時間內節省了近30%耗電量，相等於$43,000電費。成果令人十分鼓舞。」

#低碳「睇現」計劃 #香港賽馬會慈善信托基金 #兩個月節省$43,000電費 #AI平台

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10所小學一年節省逾25萬電費

透過網上AI平台提供遊戲活動及數據分析，為小學提供家校合作的環保教育，並提供實時用量數據分析從而為學校節省20%－30%耗電量。

#AI平台 #香港賽馬會慈善信托基金 #實時分析 #節省20%－30%電量

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家家『睇現』減碳計劃

典禮上播放了不少家長心聲，有家長表示自己不懂得甚麼是低碳生活，孩子反過來建議要減少開冷氣、多用風扇。更有家長說小孩透過參與網上挑戰，近月幫家裏慳了不少水費和電費。而福德學校的許加路校長則認為肺炎期間，學生沒法回校，「睇現」這個網上平台，剛好填補了空缺，即使在家亦能實踐環保。

#香港賽馬會社區持續抗逆基金 #回收舊電腦 #節省65萬電費

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同途有心人訪問－賽馬會家校『睇現』可持續發展目標計劃

透過手機應用程式進行環保生活習慣挑戰，鼓勵家庭「睇現」具體可持續發展生活

#『睇現』可持續發展目標計劃 #環保 #同途有心人 #881903.com #商業電台 #2022

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柴灣角天主教小學

周凱恩校長
歐陽欣宜老師
戴俊樂同學
戴俊軒同學
林樂怡同學
戴仲言同學
戴太
林太

#柴灣角天主教小學 #用家回饋 #用後感

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基督教香港信義會葵盛信義學校

徐起鸝校長
賴德嫦老師

#基督教香港信義會葵盛信義學校 #用家回饋 #用後感

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大角嘴天主教小學

麥天賜校長
黃麗珍老師
陳太
何太

#大角嘴天主教小學 #用家回饋 #用後感

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同學分享遊戲心得

#『睇現』APP #用家回饋 #用後感

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余希橋同學分享遊戲心得

#『睇現』APP #用家回饋 #用後感

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黃泓銳同學分享遊戲心得

#『睇現』APP #用家回饋 #用後感

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陳㛓瑤同學分享遊戲心得

#『睇現』APP #用家回饋 #用後感

朱宥澄同學分享遊戲心得

#『睇現』APP #用家回饋 #用後感

曾皓朗同學分享遊戲心得

#『睇現』APP #用家回饋 #用後感

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AWARDs

GGEF Women Eco Game Changer Awards is the first and only awards in Asia that give recognition to women who are leading and inspiring change, making an impact in the community and environment through innovation.

The Scheme also helps corporations and social services organisations to know and understand one another at a much deeper level. This will create more room for working together to develop cross-sector community projects that focus on the needs of the community.

Carbon Audit provides a systematic and scientific approach for organizations to reduce GHG emissions.

The Jockey Club Incubation Programme for Social Innovation provides one-stop entrepreneurial services for young entrepreneurs who wish to find solutions for social issues through a sustainable business model.

Food Wise Hong Kong drives leadership in food waste avoidance and reduction through working with leaders in this field in order to formulate and oversee the implementation of the Food Wise Hong Kong Campaign.

The concept of fair-trade is widely publicized but few can fully appreciate the concept of trade behind without being involved in the process. As such, to fully appreciate the concept and the intra-generation equity principle embedded within, the students will learn by participating in a mock fair-trade game. The game takes form of a role playing game depicting the chain of effect that each role signifies. This exercise will enable the students to experience the difficulties and needs in exercising fair-trade by first hand making it an innovative approach for understanding.

The aim of the game is for players to understand some of the pressures facing poor farmers by trading under a non fair-trade system (no guarantee price due to fluctuation in world market price, unregulated high interest rate loan, once-off trading relationship between producers and buyers). The students will naturally learn the concept of fair trade and how it is still possible to be poor even if the farmers work very hard. There will be five groups representing different roles presented in the following table.Fair-trade game: roles and responsibilities
Role Responsibilities
Game leader

Teachers will guide the students through the process of making decisions (i.e. source supplier selection, e-platform trading) and support their moral and character development in parallel.

Farming families

A group of student is designated as local mushroom farmers that maintain livelihood through selling a produce (e.g. mushrooms).

Money Lenders
Students play the role as the bank to lend money at high interest rate to the farming families and are designated to oversee the “currency” in the game.

At the beginning of the game, each Farming Family will be given resources to grow a produce (e.g. mushroom – a suitable produce will replace mushroom depending on weather) but the amount may vary between families to reflect difference in resource distribution. During the game, there is a trading session each week in which the Cost-of-living Collectors will collect varying amount of money from the Farming Families for schools fees and/or other living fee. The Farming Families will sell the mushroom they grow to the Market Trader to earn sufficient money to pay for the bills. If the Farming Families do not make sufficient money, the Money Lender will lend money to them a high interest rate. The Game Leader will introduce different market fluctuation scenarios to the Farming Families to adjust the difficulty of the game on a weekly basis. The transaction will be recorded virtually on a web-based system in the form of an e-trading platform. Players will engage with the e-trading platform frequently, as a means of record keeping and a progression check.

Cost-of-living Collectors

Students are designated to represent vendors of food, clothing, electricity etc. who sells goods and services to the farming families.
Market Traders Students are designated for buying the organic produce from the Farmer Families and exchanging goods to other students.

An Energy Saving Tongue Twister competition with each line to be revealed over 12 days. This can be an ideal campaign to raise awareness during the festive season such as Christmas which coincides with the Twelve Night theme. Students can also be involved in creating their own slogan to win this competition!

Example: “Whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot; we’ll weather the weather whatever the weather. Whether we like it or not.”.

Each year during Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, many types of waste are generated. In particular, waste generated electrical lantern is on the rise due to the popularity of the product. To reduce electrical waste generated from lanterns, this workshop demonstrates how recyclable material can be reused with a LED lighting system coupled with a solar panel. Students can design and create their own solar lantern using recycled materials collected. Through this workshop, students can experience first-hand how solar power can be applied in their daily lives and the extent of the problem associated with lantern waste in Hong Kong. Students are encouraged to use their DIY lantern during the mid-autumn festival.

Paper waste accounts for 21.2% (1358 tpd) of municipal solid waste in Hong Kong1. In particular, tissue paper and paper bag accounts for the majority of the paper waste. To enhance the understanding how paper waste can be reused in our daily lives, Reconnect offers this Seed Ball workshop using recycled papers to make seed ball.

Farmers have traditionally used mud mixed with seed to make seed ball to help disperse seed for germination. To add an environmental flavor, paper waste is shredded and molded into a seed ball. Students can experience how this type of waste can be reused to become a product which we can use to grow plants. Students can also learn to identify various types of plant seeds and the process of plant germination. 1Environmental Protection Department (2016) Monitoring of solid waste in Hong Kong – Waste Statistic for 2016, Hong Kong SAR Government.

Biomimicry is an approach that seeks sustainable solutions to human problems by modelling on nature’s best ideas. Humans have created massive sustainability problems which could have been avoided through better design inspired by nature’s long-term tested solution found in animals, plants and microbes. Students are challenged to take inspiration from nature to develop new perspectives on design and better ways of creating innovation.

Reconnect’s biomimicry workshop brings to students in the work
• Animal – offering a chance for students to interact with our animals. Finding inspiration from nature through encountering our animals in the workshop.
• Learn how animals use their amazing skills such as ultrasound, infrared and temperature sensors to interact with the environment.
• Learn to use smart sensors to mimic animals’ inherent sensors
• Be inspired and learn how to build your own smart sensors.

Aquaponic is a food production system that combines hydroponics and aquaculture by allowing the chemical nutrients needed for hydroponic plant (vegetable) growth to be replaced with fish waste. The size of the aquaponic can range from a desktop size to a cupboard size. It can be small enough to sit on a desk or table for the purpose of creating an in-house diverse learning setting in a space limited classroom environment. With a small footprint, aquaponic is an excellent tool to demonstrate the concept of a balance ecosystem by demonstrating the return of the aquaculture waste for the vegetable growth.

This program is designed to improve science education by integrating hands-on learning with aquatic and hydroponic science. This is an ideal method to teach science in a fun and innovative way.
This family friendly workshop allows participants to DIY their own unique aquaponic system for learning the complex symbiotic interaction of various components in our ecosystem. Through learning to balance the harmonious relationship between the aquatic organisms and the plants, the users will gain insight to the importance of environmental protection.

The aquaponic system incorporates one integrated system that grows fish and plants together. The fish waste provides organic food source for the growing plants and the plants provide a natural filter for the water the fish live in. Aquaponics takes advantage of the benefits of fish waste and removes the drawbacks of fish waste which is a good example of sustainable living.

Food waste is a prevalent issue in Hong Kong with an astonishing figure of 3000 tonnes of food waste being disposed daily at the near-capacity landfills. In order to tackle this problem from its root, Reconnect develops students’ understanding of food loss minimisation at a pre-consumer level, by encouraging them to develop a habit of taking food inventory and food donation.
To do so, we ran a behavioural challenge program taking a course of 21 day at our partnership schools which is designed to instill good environmental habits pertaining to taking inventory of food items at home . A fun online game was developed for the students to donate food online to save the animal characters in the game. The online program scored the performances of the students as a measure of their effort. Concurrently, the students who signed the charter to donate food items online were encouraged to commit to their chartered statement. Over 450 primary students joined the program and as a result of this behavioural changing program, 56 students donated non-perishable items such as can food/packaged food. The collected non-perishable food items were sent to charitable organisations such as Tuen Mun District Women’s Association. A ceremony was held to reward the students who performed well in the online game and also shared their surplus resources. Great success was ascertained through this program as the program provided a platform for the students to donate food items which otherwise would have been sent to the landfill.

Set 1 HKD250
Size: 11.5 x 11 x 14.8 cm (WxDxH) with
High Transparency Clear Plastic
Set 2 HKD450
Size: 19 x 21 x 10 cm (WxDxH)
with glass
Set 3 HKD550
Size: 18.5 x 18.5 x 24 cm (WxDxH)
with High Transparency Clear Plastic and Filter

This program allows students to be exposed to the latest green technologies through the self-powered energy-efficient wireless sensor network, which monitored the environmental factors in relation to the soil moisture level, air humidity, sunlight intensity, carbon dioxide levels and temperature. The data was then recorded in a graph where students were taught how to further analyze the data. By acquiring real-time environment information from the network, the students were provided a platform to explore the science behind farming. The system gave the student the ability to monitor the plant growth closely and to alert the students to control irrigation and application of nutrients to plants as needed.

Food waste at schools is a challenging issue. Many school students opted to leave their purchased lunch unconsumed and the schools are posed with the challenge to deal with these food waste. This program demonstrates how food waste can be reused as a resourceful material as part of organic farming.

The students were requested to bring in fruit skins and waste bread from home. In conjunction, the food waste from unconsumed lunch was also used as compost. We installed:
• 3 small-scale food composting machine (5 kg) which can generate compost within half a day;
• 3 food composting box which takes 3 months to generate mature compost.
• The compost generated from the food composting machines were applied to the garden to grow vegetable. Freshly grown salad from the school garden was served to the students as afternoon tea. The students got to enjoy the fruit of their harvest and to experience the complete “loop” cycle of recycling food waste.

From the success observed in the previous 21 day challenge online game, we further developed another online game which encouraged students to finish all of their food for each meal. The concept of the game is for students to record daily the amount of food that they have eaten in their meals and further observe the amount of food waste that they create if they do not finish their food. The aim of this game is to change the wasteful behaviour of students and tackle excessive food waste from its roots.

In the game, students will be given a plate of food and when they click on the food that they have eaten, it will disappear leaving the leftover on the plate. Students are expected to record the food that they have not finished every day in order to observe the food waste that they have accumulated throughout the period of time that they have been playing. Through this game, we hope to promote a behavioural change in which students will develop a habit of finishing their food.

To do so, we ran a behavioural challenge program taking a course of 21 day at our partnership schools which is designed to instill good environmental habits pertaining to taking inventory of food items at home . A fun online game was developed for the students to donate food online to save the animal characters in the game. The online program scored the performances of the students as a measure of their effort. Concurrently, the students who signed the charter to donate food items online were encouraged to commit to their chartered statement. Over 450 primary students joined the program and as a result of this behavioural changing program, 56 students donated non-perishable items such as can food/packaged food. The collected non-perishable food items were sent to charitable organisations such as Tuen Mun District Women’s Association. A ceremony was held to reward the students who performed well in the online game and also shared their surplus resources. Great success was ascertained through this program as the program provided a platform for the students to donate food items which otherwise would have been sent to the landfill.

HK Registered Charity IR No 香港註冊慈善團體編號: 91/14322

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OUR CAUSE

賽馬會家校「睇現」可持續發展目標計劃

環境及生態局 －大嘥鬼隊長

賽馬會校園低碳「睇現」計劃

環境及生態局 －睇現大嘥鬼

無冷氣日宣傳推廣

賽馬會家校【睇現】可持續發展目標計劃 – 街訪

低碳生活宣傳推廣

賽馬會校園節能睇現計劃

家家『睇現』減碳計劃

PRESS & MEDIA

賽馬會家校『睇現』可持續發展目標計劃頒獎典禮

校園節能「睇現」計劃 10小學全年節省逾25萬電費

低碳「睇現」計劃頒獎禮 小學齊創省電佳績

10所小學一年節省逾25萬電費

家家『睇現』減碳計劃

同途有心人訪問－賽馬會家校『睇現』可持續發展目標計劃

USER FEEDBACK

柴灣角天主教小學

基督教香港信義會葵盛信義學校

大角嘴天主教小學

同學分享遊戲心得

余希橋同學分享遊戲心得

黃泓銳同學分享遊戲心得

陳㛓瑤同學分享遊戲心得

朱宥澄同學分享遊戲心得

曾皓朗同學分享遊戲心得

AWARDs

環境及生態局－大嘥鬼隊長

環境及生態局－睇現大嘥鬼

低碳「睇現」計劃頒獎禮小學齊創省電佳績