Has anyone in your life influenced you to prioritize giving back through volunteering?
My mother influenced me to prioritize giving back through volunteering. My mom was a kind person, and my idol. When she saw elderly citizens in the street, she would buy them food and talk to them. She always visited the elderly people who lived alone and helped them clean their houses. When my mom was alive, she always helped people and received many medals and prizes from the Macau Government and charity associations during her volunteer journey.
Share a memory of your first service/volunteering experience.
My first volunteering experience was in April 2019 when my two sisters and I visited a few families and their children who live in poor mountainous areas in Hunan, China. When we met them in their houses, we saw that their clothes were old and had holes. In this issue, we couldn’t help but have tears. They had sold their only cow to get a drinking faucet because previously they had to get water from a well far away from their house. After our visit, my sisters and I decided to sponsor three children from different families every year and donated a money as well. I have to say that was a very meaningful visit and holiday.
How has our culture of doing good at Deckers impacted your involvement in volunteering?
Deckers’ culture of doing good has impacted my involvement in volunteering. There are a lot of activities every year for employees to participate in, such as Art of Kindness, charity walks, beach clean-ups and Make a Wish events in Hong Kong. I am so proud to be a member of Deckers and lucky to have opportunities to participate and organize activities with my colleagues to help people.
How often do you volunteer?
I have helped deliver bread to charity associations for the elderly, a psychiatric nursing home, the blind welfare association, and an autism children’s home at least two hours every Saturday since 2020. The bread is donated by a bakery owner who doesn’t want to waste his delicious and good quality bread. I feel so lucky that I have such opportunity to help people in our community in Macau. Through these activities, I can help people and made a lot of caring friends as well.
How do you feel after volunteering?
After volunteering, I felt happy and lucky that I can help others. People say that it is more blessed to give than to receive, and I think it is true. We shall do good things to help people, as the photos show. We showed care for children at the autism children’s home, just talking and visiting with them, and they felt very happy. I hope that I can continue to help people.
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