Bulletin No. 2, 2015

CUHK Mooncakes, introduced by the University for the first time this year with ‘CUHK’ printed on them, have received an overwhelming response from staff, alumni and students. Baked by a local social enterprise, more than 600 boxes were finally sold. For each box sold, a free mooncake was delivered by the CUHK∙Care service team to the elderly in Sha Tin and Tai Po. Many of the mooncakes were purchased for donation. As a result, more than 1,000 pieces of CUHK Mooncake were delivered to the elderly. Profit gained from the sales, which amounted to over HK$50,000, was all donated to support the I • CARE Programme of CUHK. Delivering over 1,000 CUHK Mooncakes to the Elderly Vision Screening for Hong Kong Children The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine has been conducting a two-year Hong Kong Children Eye Study since March 2015 to provide free comprehensive vision screening for 3,000 children aged six to eight. Most of the ocular diseases can be de te c ted t hrough t he s c reening programme, such as refractive errors (myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism), strabismus, amblyopia, allergic eye diseases, and colour deficiency as well as pediatric corneal diseases and hereditary retina diseases, which are usually hard to discover. Environmental, lifestyle, and nutritional data of the children are also collected for research proposes. The Department has already examined more than 1,000 children in Wan Chai, Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai. News in Brief 43