Special Reports Report From Hong Kong New Year's Presents For The Refugees By Supreme Master Magazine Reporter Fong Ho-Der, Hong Kong

After the group meditation, fellow initiates in Hong Kong pack candies and other items as a New Year's gifts for the asyiun seekers.

Master, who has always cared for and loved the Au Lac refugees, instructed the Hong Kong disciples to bring New Year's gifts to the asylum seekers in the local refugee camps, as in previous years, to share the holiday joy with them. For this purpose, Master sent money to purchase the needed items.

We obtained permission from the High Island Refugee Camp to give presents to all of its residents. Fellow practitioners had already collected all the gifts which had been ordered earlier and delivered to the Wangjiao Center. After group meditation, fellow initiates formed groups to divide various candies into small bags, and pack other gifts (including a colorful towel, a container of biscuits and a can of tea) into individual packages, and put them into paper boxes.

Listening to Master's songs, the disciples forgot about their fatigue and worked diligently; in just a few hours they finished packing all the gifts, which altogether weighed three tons. Many new initiates who participated in the work were very happy and devoted. The gifts we loaded into a vehicle and driven to the distant High Island Camp at night. There everyone waited for the next day's visit.

When the gifts were distributed, each asylum seeker obtained an individual package. Everyone was very happy; the children all smiled widely upon seeing whole bags of candies; and the adults' most favorite item was tea. Moreover, everyone was very grateful to Master for offering towels to them each year. Whenever they picked up their towels throughout the year, they could feel Supreme Master Ching Hai's love and mercy. After the gifts were distributed, the atmosphere in the Camp became very peaceful and harmonious.

A receipt from High Island Detention Center：
I acknowledge receipt of 3,800 packages of candies, biscuits, tea-bags and towels as Chinese new Year gifts for the boat people in High Island Detention Center, Sai Kung from the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association.

Welfare Department,
High Island Detention Center

Date: 6th February, 1996

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