Healing through Making Handicrafts
Healing through Making Handicrafts
Yu Ho Chung, Daniel's Story
Faculty of Social Sciences
MSW
Mental health of students has gained increasing attention of the public in recent years due to a series of student suicides. Despite the gloomy atmosphere that has haunted students, every cloud has a silver lining. Daniel Yu, a Social Work master’s degree student at HKU, might have just offered a suggestion.
Started off as a handicraft enthusiast at a young age, Daniel has always been actively engaged in organizing handicraft workshops to interested members of the public. Earlier this year, with the support of HKU 81 Inclusion Fund, Daniel and his friends took a step further by joining the Chillax · Sunset Handicraft Market organized by CEDARS’s Counselling and Person Enrichment Section as market artists.
"Even a streak of mother nature can offer a sense of peacefulness to people who are bogged down by the hectic pace of city life."
A point worth noting is that Daniel and his team adheres to the principle of caring for the environment. In spite of not being a particularly vehement environmentalist, Daniel realized that even a streak of mother nature can offer a sense of peacefulness to people who are bogged down by the hectic pace of city life. Therefore, Daniel and his team have decided to use as much natural materials as possible, such as leaf and shells, to make handicrafts. The Chillax · Sunset Handicraft Market, in a sense, offers students a temporary escape from busy university life.