How will Hong Kong respond to crises? Revamped home and youth affairs bureau promises volunteer network

Hong Kong’s revamped home and youth affairs bureau plans to stockpile emergency supplies and build a new network of volunteers to raise community mobilisation abilities in crises.

But Alice Mak Mei-kuen, in her first interview with the Post three weeks after she was appointed Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs, brushed aside concerns that these groups, established across 18 districts, were a duplication of roles in existing organisations.