Background: Seventeen pre-service teachers from The Hong Kong Institute of Education involved in a service education project during the summer vacation in 2008. They spent seven weeks in an orphanage and a commune in Vietnam to provide various services for disabled children and to help constructing a house for the poor villagers respectively. They…

Discusses community development strategies for preventing resistance against community-based learning disability projects with illustrations from the Hong Kong experience. Suggests that community acceptance requires fundamental changes in images projected by the media and service providers along with involvement of the government and social…