Student raised donation for Fellowship Orphanage of Evangelize China Fellowship
From January to May 2016, Tourism Event Management Year 2 students of the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) undertook an educational project, Terra Madre 2016, which was self-financed and geared towards raising awareness about healthy eating habits. Their audiences was 4 classes of P5 students from the Macau Anglican College. Terra Madre refers to the terms “Mother Earth” and is one of the motto used by the International Slow Food Movement to promote education in the fields of food and beverage. In a city such as Macao where there is no farm, there is a need to emphasise where food items come from and how they can be best utilised to the benefit of one’s body and mind. More than a hundredP5 children and their teachers from the Macau Anglican College enjoyed a drama staged by the IFT students followed by a series of games and workshops in the covered area where they could prepare healthy food items, collected some plants to grow at home and played games on different themes. In the process, the event raised funds of MOP18,605.10 that was given to support the educational goals and extra-curricular activities of the Fellowship Orphanage of Evangelize China Fellowship, a registered local charity in Macao. Established in 1995, the Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao (IFT) offers the most extensive selection of tourism and hospitality related bachelor degree programmes in Macao, and about twenty thousand participants attend its vocational and professional training courses annually. IFT collaborates with 97 universities and tourism organisations around the world, and builds strong links with 500 leading tourism and hospitality corporations to offer internship opportunities to its students. Being the first institution accredited by the UNWTO.TedQual Certification System for tourism education, IFT has now 7 bachelor degree programmes with the Certification. Currently, the Institute has the most number of bachelor degree programmes certified under the System of any tertiary education establishment worldwide. IFT has received the Medal of Merit in Tourism from the Macao SAR Government, and won twice the Gold Award in ‘Education and Training’ from the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA).