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從咖啡杯種出一朵朵花(Chinese Only)

從咖啡杯種出一朵朵花(Chinese Only)

(Chinese Only)不少人工作忙碌,處理份內事已花上大部份心力時間,或許難以再花心思於工作上。   但負責協助弱能人士投入職場的職業康復導師梁海俊(梁Sir)不認同,工作內,他不惜花數月費唇舌,只為教導學員何謂有禮貌;工作外,他跑到老遠上咖啡課程,只為熟習職場運作,好讓學員更易掌握其教學。梁Sir說,「這裡不止是一份工⋯⋯教學員好像種花,埋下種子,等待發芽,時間可能漫長,但終有一天看到,那種開心,非筆墨形容」。   27歲的梁Sir是保良局夏利萊博士伉儷綜合復康中心的職業康復導師,約在三年前起接手中心內的咖啡閣,為不同程度的弱能學員提供實習機會,學習一般咖啡店及小賣部的銷售工作和技巧。   咖啡閣起初只是如小賣部一樣,賣汽水、零食、罐裝咖啡,沒有燒賣、魚蛋等熟食。但梁Sir認為,職場工作沒這樣簡單,便利店有蒸爐賣小吃,咖啡店最少也有咖啡機,遂與上司商量,引入相近的設備。他說,「部分學員在宿舍生活,對社會事物感疏離和陌生,設備貼近生活,希望增強他們與社會的聯繫」。   雖曾在大型連鎖快餐店任兼職,但梁Sir仍自覺不熟悉咖啡店流程,故自行報讀咖啡課程,每星期在葵芳的小山腰下班後,就跑到新蒲崗的工廈上課,上足3個月。由起初不懂分辨咖啡豆,到後來懂得各類咖啡的水和奶比例,梁Sir甚至可以為咖啡拉花。   努力裝備自己,梁Sir希望能為學員顯出示範作用。他說,咖啡課程中導師是看示範,再讓他們嘗試,故用同樣方式指導學員,並加以鼓勵。   輕度智障學員鄭偉新(阿新)2、3年前初來實習時,性格內向,未明白如要對客人「有禮」的抽象概念,梁Sir解釋,因「有禮」包含說話語氣、面部表情等,故他每次招呼客人時,都以身作則,細緻如「收你幾錢、找你幾錢、多謝」,他都會堅持講。談起阿新現時已可處理賣咖啡的流程,早前更成功親手為家人沖咖啡,本因受訪而緊張的梁Sir都展露歡顏。   硬件以外,梁Sir更關心學員心態。以往有學員抗拒與他人溝通,非常不喜歡和他談話,即使他關心學員為何戴口罩,該學員都是只回一句:「唔關你事!」但隨他堅持每日關心學員,半年後該學員最終變成「開籠雀」,經常主動與他分享日常所見所聞。   面對各學員不同情況,梁sir付出更多耐性,甚至帶點長氣,像「乾淨」、「落場」的概念,只要學員不明白,他都會不厭其煩地再三講解。梁Sir說,「學員們不理睬他,其實很面懵,但只要是真誠關心學員,他們都會感受到。這裡不止是一份工,不是8時45分打卡,5時33分就可以說拜拜⋯⋯教學員好像種花,埋下種子,等待發芽,時間可能漫長,但終有一天看到,那種開心,非筆墨形容」 。
The General Attendants of the Po Leung Kuk Kindergarten-cum-Nursery - Auntie Fan and Auntie Kwan

The General Attendants of the Po Leung Kuk Kindergarten-cum-Nursery - Auntie Fan and Auntie Kwan

Who is the most unforgettable person in your few years of kindergarten life? Teachers? Classmates? Or if you can remember, the General Attendants who made relentless effort to prepare your diets and clean up the kindergarten premises?    The work of Auntie Fan and Auntie Kwan, the General Attendants of the Po Leung Kuk Kindergarten cum Nursery, is just like any other attendants with the same duties, they are always the earliest staff arriving the school. Before lesson starts, they need to clean up all classrooms and teaching aids to ensure everything the toddlers touch are clean. After students coming back to school, they need to assist the chef in making refreshments, take the kids to toilets, as well as get the children to sleep and cover them with blankets during nap time. Auntie Fan and Auntie Kwan both joke about their roles are just like the kids’ mothers.     Full-time kindergarten students need to spend almost whole day at school. Therefore, their development and growth greatly rely on school education, in which General Attendants can fill in the gaps to the tasks that teachers do not have time to manage, such as leading the students through toilet training, tutoring them how to use chopsticks or washing hands. All the trivial tasks performed by the General Attendants create a more comfortable learning environment for the children.       Even though the work is busy, Auntie Fan and Auntie Kwan are still satisfied with their jobs. It is because witnessing children’s growth is a beautiful thing for them.   
Sum Miu, Welfare worker

Sum Miu, Welfare worker

Comprehensive residential care services bring colors to children’s life. “Why do the children need to be suffered at such a young age? Every child deserves proper care.”  Po Leung Kuk offers a variety of residential care services to children with family difficulties. One of them is the “New Comers’ Ward” at the Headquarters, which is the only gazetted place of refuge in Hong Kong providing urgent and short-term residential care for children who are under family crisis. It is common that children would feel nervous and anxious when they entered the new environment. The support and companionship of our frontline caregivers are therefore important to create the warmest shelter for the children.  Sum Miu is one of the welfare workers who has been working in the Ward for 3 years already. She has looked after more than 300 children with inadequate family care due to sudden family crises, divorce /decease /imprisonment / hospitalisation of parents, or child abuse. “Sometimes police rang the doorbell at 2 or 3am and brought the kids around. The top priority at that time is to prepare sufficient food and bed to meet the children’s physical needs.”  Emotional support is another crucial duty of the staff. Sum Miu pointed that the Ward has set up the “Golden 2 Hours” system. Each new-coming child will receive exclusive child care by a specific staff as their ‘Buddy’, who will answer their concern for living in the Ward so as to soothe their anxiety.   Emotional and behavioral problems are often found in the Ward’s children with complicated family background. It requires substantial effort to open up their hearts and educate them. “Patience is the key. For instance, if they were in temper, we will teach them to clench their fists, stand aside and try to calm down. Afterwards we will explain the reason to them and solve the problems step-by-step. I hope the children can leave with the knowledge learnt from the Kuk and develop the proper attitude to get along with people.”
Cheung Sir

Cheung Sir

  25 is simply the golden age of everything, some people work hard for their career, while some people are getting prepared to form their own families. But for the 25-year-old Cheung Ka Fai, he is already the “dad” of 14 boys. This Cheung Ka Fai is not the renowned actor we see on screen. He, dubbed as “Cheung Sir”, holds a Master of Social Work and is the “parent” of the Po Leung Kuk’s dormitory in Children Section, responsible for taking care of 14 “sons” regularly.      Cheung Sir needs to take care of 14 boys aged between 6 and 18 living in one of the Kuk’s dormitory. Every day, Cheung Sir the “dad” needs to wake up his sons for school, ask them to brush up and get dressed, make them breakfasts, tidy up, pick them up after school and teach them homework. But his role is not only limited to “dad”, when he got along with children in secondary schools, he treats himself like their “brother”, who can chit chat and joke around with them, or confide in each other, and built up their relationship in a comparatively casual way. Cheung Sir is also like a “tutor” in after-school care class, guiding them to study and finish their homework in the self-study periods. During weekends, he then turned himself into “fitness coach” to train up their physique and supervise them to do more exercise.    Being the parent of the dormitories need to work long hours, but the wish of spending more time with the new generations has triggered Cheung Sir to move from a student discipline teacher in secondary school to the big family of Po Leung Kuk. Children living in the dormitories cannot receive adequate cared for by their families due to various family problems, and often lack father’s care during their growth. Therefore, Cheung Sir hopes to give them care and love by the identity as a “dad”. He also mentioned that each child has a unique background underlying different family issues, it is necessary to adopt different tailor-made approaches to get along with each child, so as to establish relationships with them, gain their trust and give them a sense of security; but at the same time need to ensure everyone is being treated equally, in order to let them realise the common standard in dealing with serious problems.   Helping the children to understand themselves, explore their dreams, discover their ways of life, and among all to learn to be a good boy, are all the meanings for him to be a “dad”.