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Estella Hin Ling LEE has become a Chinese household name - partly through her regular radio broadcasts and newspaper columns and partly through the enormous amount of community work she undertakes. Estella has been instrumental in helping to bring the conservation message to Auckland's Chinese community. Hong Kong born, Estella worked as a primary school teacher to support a serious travel habit. Her extensive explorations of China in the 70s resulted in the production of several successful travel books for the Hong Kong market. When she moved to New Zealand in 1989 the obvious career path to follow was that of travel agent. Since then she has become well known for her custom-made tours of the country. Estella is a member of many community and service groups, including the Auckland Chinese Catholic Community, NZ Chinese Association, Rotary and the NZ China Trade Association. She sees her role as someone who bridges communities and cultures, be they Chinese, Taiwanese or Kiwi.
Sophia XIAO was born and grown up in Xiamen (Amoy), Fujian, China. She graduated from Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1998 with a bachelor degree. She has been in New Zealand for 6 and half years. She really enjoyed this green and peaceful land, especially South Island. She is interested in Public Health, and hope to improve everyone's health status. She thinks a real healthy people should be care of himself, family, social contacts, living style, and the natural environment. She has been a volunteer in Chinese Conservation Education Trust since Oct 2002.
Sue Keung was born and grown up in Shanghai. She had lived in Hong Kong for 10 years at 80's of last century. She migrated to New Zealand in 1989. Since then she had spent some time to study English and had several different jobs. She has just resigned from her ACC job last June.
Seventeen years ago she joined Life Line Chinese Line, during the time she finished her diploma counselling study. Now she is still working for Life Line Chinese line as a volunteer face to face counsellor.
She always cares about the environment and is interested on environmental issues. She is pleased that she can join CCET as a trustee so that she can have the chance to learn and work with the Chinese immigrants here, to look after the planet that we all rely on.
Portia MAO
Barry Hung was born in Xiamen, China. He graduated from the Western Languages Department of Beijing University in the1960's, during the “great cultural revolution”. He had been a teacher in a northwestern Chinese province before moving to Hong Kong in the late 1970's, where he worked as a translator for most of the years. Barry and his wife were so deeply impressed by the beautiful environment and nice people of New Zealand during their first visit in the winter of 1994, that they decided to give up their jobs in Hong Kong and their original plan to migrate to the United States and came to live in New Zealand by the end of 1995. Since 2005 when he came to live in Auckland, Barry has been a volunteer involved in a lot of community work. As vice president of Pakuranga Chinese Association, apart from teaching English to his members for many years in succession, Barry has often organized activities and educational projects on environment and conservation and held all kinds of workshops and seminars to help new migrants from China successfully settle down in New Zealand, where they call it "my second home country". Barry is eager to contribute his bit to help promote the mutual understanding and friendship between the Chinese and the mainstream communities and has made great efforts to achieve this.
Trustee / Secretary
George Ge came to New Zealand in 1996, from Beijing, China, where he graduated from Peking University. After 14 years work in Ministry of Education, he worked in several companies like the Library Supply and Peace Software. In 2006, he stared to work in Department of Conservation as the secretary of CCET, and left the position in late 2008. His willing is to work in Chinese community to keep New Zealand always a county with the most beautiful environment.
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