Name of Event: Green Minion Volunteer Training Workshop 2018 – Sharing Session (Last Lesson)
Date: October 26, 2018 (Friday)
Venue: TrailWatch Activity Room
For TrailWatch to receive feedbacks from participants and assess what they have gained, a special sharing session was organised at the end of the training programme. A Green Minion said that he enrolled in the course simply because he liked hiking, what he did not expect was the wide range of topics being covered – these were topics that did not grasp his attention nor interest him previously but now he desired to know more. The programme had made them feel more strongly about waste problem in daily live and taking actions to reduce at source. Other comments include: “ I will now bring a small plastic bag to collect trash while hiking”, “Scary! At the beach clenaup, I saw for the first time a plastic packaging with fish bite mark”, “it is very rewarding and beyond my expectation”, “I used to do trail run and seldom slow down to look at the landscape. I have now learnt to better appreciate the nature around me, I would even make a U-turn to pick up a plastic bottle which seems fascinating to my running buddies.”
Although Green Minions commented that each seminar was too short for in-depth discussion, the positive thing is that the programme has aroused their interest in the topic, and they had made a lot of reflections about their daily lives. It was beyond the expectation of TrailWatch that the participants were so devoted to the training and had become good friends after three months. We hope to see that they will apply their skills and knowledge to make positive impacts in different places, continue to take actions and carry out the mission to protect Hong Kong’s countryside.
