From: john@jho.com (John Ho)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Global Volunteer Database!!! (PLEASE READ)
Summary: Global Volunteer Database!!! (PLEASE READ)
Keywords: Global Volunteer Database
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:36:57 GMT
Organization: Software Programming, Inc., Dallas, Texas USA


Hi everyone,

	Every now and then, we all need some kind of help from someone in 
another city or in another country.  We need information on a degree 
program in another university thousands of miles away, we want to find
our long lost classmate in another city or we simply need travel information
in another state.  We have all seen postings after postings of that 
nature in SCHK, wouldn't it be nice if we have know someone who are
willingly to provide us with information when we need it?  This is what
the Global Volunteer Database (GVD) is all about.  GVD will consist of
SCHK netters from around the world who are willingly to help out
other netters.  The volunteers will answer questions for the school they 
are attending or provide info for the city where they reside.  It
is a pure volunteer activity and the volunteer will not charge a fee for
their service.  GVD are SCHK netters who are out there to help others.

	Thousands of students leave Hong Kong every year to persuade 
advance degree in US, Canada, UK and Australia.  The big majority 
of us do not know what to expect when we get on the plane.
Wouldn't it be nice if someone who is attending the univerisity that you are 
going to can answer a few questions before you jump on the plane?  Of course 
it will be nice if someone can pick up the new student from the airport. :)
It is always nice to know someone before you set foot on a total strange
land.  Our mission is to make available the GVD database to the Han Seng 
Oversea Study Center (soemthing like that) in HK, American Chamber of
Commerce in HK, the Institute of International Education in Hong Kong and
other organisations who assists students in HK to study aboard (give me
more suggestion here please).  I will pull a few strings and have 
some of our SCHK netters in HK to physically go into the center 
and give the counselors a lesson on how to use AT&T e-mail from HK to 
contact our volunteers thru e-mail.  The database will also be available to 
the "Breakthru" Magazine which they already have a similar services for 
a long time, only now it goes hi-tech thru Internet. :)

	I wish everyone of you can partcipate in this meaningful event.  As
the SCHK FAQ maintainer, I am honored to delicate this task to Kelvin
Leung in Dartmouth College.  Kelvin will responsible to maintain the
database and the GVD will be posted as part of the SCHK FAQ from now on.

	I also would like to see every Hong Kong Student Association in
all univeristies and colleges to have AT LEAST one volunteer in
the GVD.  It will help all of us to communicate better in event that
we have not foreseen.  I hope this will become an important step in
moving SCHK from a discussion only forum to an organized global
network for Hong Kong people around the world.  Please particpate by 
filling in the form below and REMEMBER TO SEND IT to Kelvin Leung at 

		"Kelvin.leung@dartmouth.edu" 

			or

		"abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu", NOT ME!!!!!!!!

Thank you.

---------------------- BEGIN ------------------------
Country:   		(country)
State/Province:		(state/province)
Company/Univ:		(school or company)
Name:			(your name)
Address:		(E-mail address)
Dept:			(department of study)
HKSA?:			(Are you the contact for the HK Student Association?)
Comment:		(Comment)

----------------------  END ------------------------

This is my entry:

Country:               	USA 
State/Province:		Texas
City:                  	Dallas	
Company/Univ:     	Software Programming, Inc. 
Name:                  	John Ho 
Address:               	john@jho.com 
Dept:                  	-none- 
HKSA?:                 	-no-
Comment:		I always have room for a new friend. :) 

-- 
John Ho from Dallas, Texas USA. (john@jho.com)           - No news is bad news.