Lunch with Irene, Assistant Director at Housing Authority

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Posted on 5 January, 2016
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With over thirty years of experience in the Housing Department, Irene has been involved and now oversees all facets of public housing development work in Hong Kong.

Today our volunteers visited Irene at the Housing Authority Headquarters to learn about sustainable development, community engagement, and green building initiatives, followed by an off-site tour at Housing Authority’s recent completed estate.

This lunch raised over 30 hours for Hong Kong Community Chest, Pathfinders & Institute For Integrated Rural Development Hong Kong.

This article originally appeared on our blog on Medium: https://medium.com/time-auction/lunch-with-irene-assistant-director-at-housing-authority-938b1388de29

Updated on 8 April, 2021
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