A Happy New Year to you all!!

Camp Quality Hong Kong held their very successful annual "thank you" Christmas dinner for the companions at the China Tee Club on Friday 21st December.

This annual event is the only opportunity the charity has to thank all our wonderful companions for their continued support. Having established a solid organization structure which enables us to program regular activities and support for the campers, the support of our companions is vital to the continued success of Camp Quality Hong Kong. All our companions have spent all their time and energy concentrating solely on taking care of the children whilst at camps and other organized activities, therefore in appreciation of all their time and efforts, this "thank you" dinner is held every year just to show our gratitude.

This year was truly a fun-filled evening for all who attended!! This time around, to go with the Chinese theme at the China Tee Club, we had a "Yee Shanghai " theme and it was an incredible sight to see all our companions come dressed in their bright Chinese costumes.

In accordance with our Chinese theme, we would also chose to award the best dressed male companion and female companion for the evening, our panel being Ms. Connie Esdicul, Mr. Phil Colodanto and Mr. Charlie Morency.

The restaurant was transformed with all the atmosphere of old shanghai by all the Camp Quality staff who had been working extremely hard the past weeks to make this event a remarkable success.

The highlight of the evening must have been the dance performance by all Camp Quality Staff. As a token of our appreciation to the companions we had all secretly planned this grand performance reminiscent of a popular local Chinese performer. This was greatly received by the crowd and we had to do it again due to popular demand!

Throughout the evening we had various unusual but "thoughtful" auction items to be auction, these were our Camp Quality staff!! The first auction item was Alice's Paper Magic, which raised HK$380, the second item was Larra's from "CQ with Love" which meant that Larra will have to knit (she is an expert though!) are made to measure jumper for the highest bidder, this raised HK$1500, the third item, "Sealed with a Kiss" was Jessica giving her first public kiss to the highest bidder! this raised HK$520 and finally Paul's "Saturday Night Fever" which meant Paul will have to dance in public with the highest bidder, this raised the most money for the evening, a grand total of HK$1600. We had one item for auction which wasn't on the program and that was by one of our camper turned companion, Ko Lap Wai who stood in to give us one of his delightful performance which raised HK$800. We raised a grand total of HK$4800 which went towards our Camp Quality Parent Support Fund.

Special thanks and recognition was also made to our regular camps nurses, Vanessa, Carmen, Monita and Alice. Elizabeth Li, a companion who have been a solid Camp Quality supporter from the beginning also received our thanks and appreciation for her support to our charity and also raising the most money for the Terry Fox Run held by the Hong Kong Cancer Fund this November, she raised a grand total of HK$7160 for the Hong Kong Cancer Fund.

During the evening, we presented all new companions with their Camp Quality pins and flags.

As we reflect on the special experiences we have all shared over the past year, we find that some are very funny and some very touching but none of this could have happen without the support of Mr. Bill Benter. Without his generous support we would not have been able to carry out our camping programs in Hong Kong. Our appreciation goes out to him and everyone involved in making Camp Quality a great success story in Hong Kong.