Our Impact

Our Intervention Approach

TUF strives to provide Dynamic Personalized Mentorship to students in need of guidance for their personal development. We trained our Mentors to act as role models to the students they serve. Placed in our Partner Schools for two years, full-time, our Mentors collaborate with teachers to provide support to students via Individual Mentoring, English Small Group Support and School-based Activities.

To ensure impact sustainability in our Partner Schools, TUF adopts a “2+3” collaboration model in our intervention. Our Mentors exemplify the way to implement and strengthen the impact of the program during their two years of direct intervention, then we support the schools for three more years while they use their own resources, as well as leverage on TUF’s successful experience, to sustain the program in the long-run.

The following diagram outlines the overall approach of our intervention:

Needs Assessment

According to a study by the University of Hong Kong on Earnings Mobility, there is a positive correlation of intergenerational educational attainment between parents and children. The findings indicated that only 20% of children will receive a degree if their parents had only a primary education. Education is a key to social mobility, and therefore, socially disadvantaged students encountered greater difficulty in social and earnings mobility.

In many of our target schools, there is lower academic and career expectation as well as lower self-esteem.

Our work fills a huge gap not addressed by many schools/ social workers/ government programs.

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Measuring Impact

To ensure our programs are effective, we measure the performance of participating students using these indicators:

Self-esteem a boosted level of self-assurance, better social skills and the ability to better articulate how they wish to achieve career goals
Learning Attitude a recognizable change in their inclination to learn and interact proactively at school
Motivation an increased enthusiasm to participate in school life and devote more time to gaining knowledge and broadening their horizons

Partner School Story
"Leung Sing Tak College serves students of average standard. Our students mainly come from the nearly housing estates. One of our missions is to promote social mobility. We believe that given the appropriate support and encouragement, every student can actualize their potentials. TUF shares the same vision with us. The two TUF Program Mentors conduct small group English lessons. Additionally, they assist with the organization and promotion of various English activities. The joint efforts taken by the Program Mentors and our English team have resulted in very satisfactory outcome. We achieved very good results in the public exam last year. I thank TUF for its support and also the supporters of TUF. Thank you." – Principal Tsang, Leung Sing Tak College

Our Impact

Our Intervention Approach

Needs Assessment

Measuring Impact

TUF Impact

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