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HKU holds Equal Opportunity Festival 2016

27 Oct 2016

 

HKU is hosting the Equal Opportunity Festival 2016 with the theme “Think Differently, Embrace Diversity” focusing on disabilities discrimination and support for special educational needs from October 27 to November 11, 2016.  A series of event including talks, training sessions, exhibitions, seminars, and book exhibition will be held during the period.

An opening ceremony was held today (October 27) with Professor Alfred Chan, Chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission as the Guest of Honour. Professor Peter Mathieson, President of the University of Hong Kong, officiated at the ceremony.  The Inauguration Ceremony for the Equal Opportunity Student Ambassadors was also held on the occasion. Other participants in the event included Dialogue Experience, Hong Kong Guide Dogs Association, SAHK, Silence and Equal Opportunities Commission.

For details of the Equal Opportunity Festival 2016, please visit the Equal Opportunity Festival website: http://www.eounit.hku.hk/eofestival/2016/

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Melanie Wan of the Communication and Public Affairs Office at 2859 2600 or email to melwkwan@hku.hk.