Prof. Edward Ng: Rebuilding Home for Sichuan Earthquake Victims
12 May 2016
Prof. Edward Ng is a Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture and a member of S.H. Ho College. He is the first incumbent of the Yao Ling Sun Endowed Chair in Architecture. Prof. Ng has involved himself in humanitarian work since his study in 1980s. Professor Ng manages his professional skills as an architect to improve the life of rural and poor Chinese.Adopted the idea in delivering love and care to enable the sustainable development of poverty-sticken and disadvantaged areas, the “Wu Zhi Qiao” Charitable Foundation has developed into an inter-university cooperation initiative of Hong Kong and the ainland university students. It has mobilized over 330 volunteers and completed 11 bridge projects in Shanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Guizhou and Yunnan etc, benefiting over ten thousands villagers since its inauguration in 2007 under the leadership of Professor Ng. Besides the bridge building project, Professor Ng helped the affected people in 5.12 Sichuan Earthquake 2008 rebuilding houses ruined during the earthquake and built a safe pedestrian crossing in place of the traditional but unstable one as the only way of reaching the outside world. It has been eight years since the natural hazard occurred. A press interviewed him on the rebuilding project in Sichuan.
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12 May 2016
建築師「泥屋」重塑家園 (信報)
