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Peer and family mediation
School is where you can gain an education, but it is also a place to learn life skills. Designed to teach students how to resolve conflicts between their peers, the Peer Mediation Project was launched in more than 20 secondary schools with a donation of nearly HKD1 million from the Hongkong Bank Foundation.
Since the project was launched in 2001 more than 700 secondary students from 30 local schools have been trained as peer mediators and their skills have been used to help resolve more than 400 cases of conflict.
"This service can promote students' conflict resolution skills as well as a positive culture."
Amarantha Yip, Hong Kong Family Welfare Society
The Foundation has also donated more than HKD800,000 to the Hong Kong Family Welfare Society to train social workers to become accredited mediators so they can support couples facing divorce or separation.
Students are able to draw on the skills of trained mediators.
Peer mediation project leaflet.
Students get accrediation to become peer mediators.
