Walk Up Jardine House 2009 Raises Spirits and Helps Health in Mind
Hundreds of Jardines' staff, business associates, families, 'Health in Mind' school participants and friends joined the annual 'Walk Up Jardine House' and raised over HK$1.9 million for Health in Mind, the youth mental health promotion programme co-organized by the Hong Kong Hospital Authority and MINDSET.
Under the theme of 'Garden of Hope', which aimed to encourage people to keep up their spirits despite the uncertain economic outlook, participants walked or ran up the 49 floors of Jardine House covering 947 steps. The event consisted of individual and team races, as well as a mass walk. Jardines fielded 31 teams made up of staff and friends in the Inter-Divisional relay races, while 13 teams from the schools participating in the 'Health in Mind' programme entered the School Relay race. There were 21 participants for the Individual race and 24 business associates of Jardines for the relay race for Associates. Dairy Farm, Gammon Construction, Hongkong Land, Jardine Aviation Services, Jardine Engineering Corporation, Jardine Schindler Group, Rothschild and Zung Fu were all diamond sponsors of the event, which is now in its 24th year.
The fastest woman up Jardine House was Cheung Lai Yin of Chiu & Partners and the fastest man Tam Siu Kan of Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Limited. The Barrow Cup for the fastest runner by age over 40 years old was won by (Men) Wong Tin Ping of Jardine Engineering Corporation and (Women) Eva Kwan of L'Oréal Hong Kong Limited.
二○○九「齊步上怡廈」激勵鬥志 全力支持「Teen使行動 — 青少年思健推廣計劃」
數百名怡和員工、親友及業務夥伴，連同參與「Teen使行動」的學校的代表和各界朋友，攜手參加一年一度的「齊步上怡廈」活動，為「Teen使行動」這項由醫院管理局及思健合辦的青少年精神健康推廣計劃，籌得超過一百九十萬港元的善款。
今年活動以「希望之園」為主題，旨在鼓勵大家在不明朗的經濟前景下保持積極樂觀，參賽者步行或跑步登上怡和大廈四十九樓，全程共九百四十七級樓梯。是次活動分為個人賽和團體賽，並以「齊步上怡廈」這個集合所有參加者一同走畢整個賽道的項目作結。怡和共有三十一隊由員工及親友組成的隊伍參加部門際接力賽，「Teen使行動」的參與學校亦派出了十三隊隊伍競逐校際接力賽，另有二十一名健兒參加個人賽，二十四家業務夥伴參加公開賽，非常熱鬧。今年是怡和第二十四年舉辦這項活動，牛奶公司、金門建築、置地公司、怡中航空服務、怡和機器、怡和迅達集團、洛希爾及仁孚行均為是次活動的主要贊助商。
最快登上怡和大廈的女子參賽者是來自趙不渝•馬國強律師事務所的張勵研，而最快的男子參賽者則是梅賽德斯—奔馳香港的譚少勤。專供年齡四十以上參賽者競逐的鮑磊杯，男女子組的冠軍分別由怡和機器的王天平和L'Oréal Hong Kong Limited的關靜華贏得。
此外，「慈善籌款榮譽大獎—集團公司／部門組」及「慈善籌款榮譽大獎—公開組」則由牛奶公司及香港機場管理局奪得。
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