Bulletin Spring‧Summer, 2008

drugs and provided manpower and technical assistance to the hospitals. The Department of Psychiatry was invited by the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Mental Health to train mental health personnel in the province and to help look after quake survivors transferred from Sichuan to Guangdong. Prof. Chiu Fung-kum Helen ( top ), chairman of the department, and her team were invited to deliver a disaster mental health training workshop for mental health care providers in Sichuan. Prof. Chan Kai-ming Cavor ( middle , 1st right), Professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and chairman of the Chinese Speaking Orthopaedic Society, initiated the 'Stand TALL' project, which is aimed at helping Sichuan earthquake amputees achieve total rehabilitation and social integration. A team of medical and allied health professionals led by Prof. Chan visited Guangzhou and Chengdu, providing amputees with technologically advanced prostheses. So far, over 100 victims have benefited from the project. Recently the project worked with the HKSAR government and the Hospital Authority to seek financial support for rehabilitation programmes in major centres in Sichuan. The Department of Educational Psychology provided counseling and training to victims, volunteers and relief workers. It also put up a website offering relevant information on psychological reconstruction. Prof. Lau Siu- ying Patrick ( bottom , standing), who was in Chengdu, said, 'What touched me most during my trip to Chengdu were the goodness, beauty and strength of humanity.' In times of catastrophe, timely and accurate information is about as crucial as frontline relief work. The University's Institute of Space and Earth Information Science proved its worth by taking aerial pictures of the quake zones with remote satellites in collaboration with other parties. With the pictures, the institute could assess the devastation, and facilitate relief and reconstruction work. In this tremor the University community was united in sympathy and action. Many CUHK members offered their assistance by donating money or applying their technical know-how to help the victims. 32   Chinese University Bulletin Spring • Summer 2008