Get to Know Charities

Get to Know Charities: EmpowerU
Learn more about how EmpowerU provide high-quality education to those on the margins, so they can use their voice to create a better future.

Get to Know Charities: Metta Mission & Community Ministry
Learn more about 17 years old Panha who had been living on the street until Metta Mission & Community Ministry.

Get to Know Charities: Box of Hope
Box of Hope means exactly that. A box filled with hope. It’s about children helping children. Box of Hope was founded in 2008 by two women who wanted to teach their children about the act of giving to others. For the children who receive these gifts, it brings joy and a smile on their face.

Get to Know Charities: Pro Bono HK
Solving eviction frictions in our city of lights.
Return recently to the office, it was a little unsettling to not see the familiar office cleaner with her vacuum and duster as I sipped my coffee – not just for a day but for a whole two weeks, there was no usual whizz and vroom around the corridor in the mornings.

Get to Know Charities: YAMA Foundation
Haven’t we had enough of sitting still? Not quite for some…
For many of us, the last few years of confinement have tested our ability to “sit still”. We were not able to travel, take a holiday abroad or even swim at the beach freely.

Get to Know Charities: Splash Foundation
Splash Foundation provides free swimming programmes to migrant workers and refugees as well as children from underprivileged backgrounds. They believe that everyone should have a chance to learn a sport that can not only save lives but help build confidence and social connection.

Get to Know Charities: Integrated Brilliant Education
Integrated Brilliant Education (IBEL) has a mission to educate and empower underprivileged non-Chinese speaking children in Hong Kong.

Get to Know Charities: Golden Age Foundation
Golden Age Foundation is a multi-sector platform that fosters the development of smart ageing cities in Asia. They generate impactful ideas, develop the golden age economy and provide events and training to empower “Golden Agers” (those > 45 years of age) to continue purposeful, healthy and quality lives.

Get to Know Charities: Fair Employment Foundation
Fair Employment Foundation aims to end the forced labor of migrant workers across Asia. By changing the migrant worker market and being one of the biggest and best recruiters and trainers, they hope to influence the government and wider market.

Get to Know Charities: Uplifters
“Your future is already in your mind, take the right action and see better results.”

Get to Know Charities: Time Auction
How Time Auction volunteers supported an educational NGO launch a symposium

Get to Know Charities: Sunbeam Children’s Foundation
Glenda is one of our children at the Sunbeam Children’s Village. In 2021, she was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the healthy parts of the body.

Get to Know Charities: The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation
Every year, the United Nations celebrates the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) on 3 December which aims to promote the rights of people with disabilities in all aspects so that they can live in a fair and barrier-free society. The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation (HKSR) shares the same goal by not only providing physically rehabilitation service, but also focusing on disease prevention, health promotion and health-risk factor assessments.

Get to Know Charities: SENsational Foundation
SENsational Foundation, which Faridé founded in 2013 to address these issues, works to dispel misconceptions about disabilities that companies may hold in order to improve their workplace inclusivity.

Get to Know Charities: Empathy for the Elderly
The name ‘Empathy for Elderly’ is self-explanatory : able to step into senior citizens’ shoes and feel how they feel. This charitable organisation aims to nurture empathy and compassion in the community so that the public will understand more about the mental and physical needs of golden agers. Since 2013, volunteers have actualised its mission through their services.

Get to Know Charities: DADs Network
Have you ever thought about how fathers can influence their children’s social and emotional development? See how DADs Network promotes active fathering, building stronger and more positive family relationships.

Get to Know Charities: Richmond Fellowship of Hong Kong (RFHK)
Established in 1984, RFHK is affiliated with Richmond Fellowship International, a global network of self-governing charities sharing the common goal of promoting good community care practice in the field of mental health.

Get to Know Charities: Woopie Club
Woopie Club believes holistic elderly care covers not merely rehabilitation or cognitive training, but also ageing in place.

Get to Know Charities: EDiversity
Founded in 2014, EDiversity is dedicated to students, teachers and parents’ happiness and fulfilment in education.

Get to Know Charities: Youth With a Mission Tuen Mun (YWAM Tuen Mun)
Youth With a Mission Tuen Mun (YWAM Tuen Mun) is a charity that aims to serve the vulnerable of Hong Kong.

Get to Know Charities: The CEO Foundation 主流夢工場
The CEO Foundation offers second chances to eligible dogs from local shelters through the HI Partner program and is actively looking to pair them with youth who may benefit from interacting with them in a supervised environment.

Get to Know Charities: Mind Hong Kong
Mind HK ensures everyone in Hong Kong living with a mental health problem has the recognition, support and respect they need to make the best recovery possible.

Get to Know Charities: Kids4Kids
Kids4Kids is a local NGO that envisions a future where all young people are making a positive impact in their community, with the belief that they are “Never Too Young to Change the World”.

Get to Know Charities: AFS Intercultural Exchanges
AFS Intercultural Exchanges focused on providing intercultural exchange programs for high school students.

Get to Know Charities: Branches of Hope
Branches of Hope seeks to support refugees, asylum seekers and human trafficking victims in Hong Kong by helping them integrate and become positive members of the community.

Get to Know Charities: Harmony House
Established as the first shelter for abused women and children in Hong Kong 35 years ago, Harmony House has developed into a one-stop anti-domestic violence service agency, tackling the social problems of domestic violence.

Get to Know Charities: Christian Concern for the Homeless Association
Hold the belief that they should serve “one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine” as if they serve God, Christian Concern for the Homeless Association responds to the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of the homeless in Hong Kong, integrating both the Christian gospel and social services.

Get to Know Charities: Tai Po Baptist Church Social Service
Tai Po Baptist Church Social Service (TPBCSS) was restructured in January 2010 from a social service centre originally established in 2003 by the Tai Po Baptist Church. TPBCSS is a localised, self-financed organisation that comprises four service units, namely: (i) the Tai Po Baptist Church Social Service Centre, (ii) integrated family service, (iii) social work and (iv) children’s learning and development.

Get to Know Charities: Light On Charity
Light On Charity works with Edventure Nepal, a children’s home, and other community organisations in South Asia to provide disaster relief, while nurturing cultural exchange and improving local children’s access to education through fundraising and school rebuilding projects.

Get to Know HK Charities: Methodist Epworth Village Community Centre, Social Welfare
Founded in 1963, the Methodist Epworth Village Community Centre (the Centre) is a diversified social service organisation, with a focus on the eastern district of Hong Kong Island. The Centre currently serves a wide range of beneficiaries including schools, children, youth, families, ethnic minorities, the golden aged and the elderly. The Centre’s mission is to care for all through quality service.

Get to Know Charities: Saint Barnabas’ Society and Home
Saint Barnabas’ Society and Home (SBSH) provide shelter and help for the homeless and poor in Western District of Hong Kong, with meals (around 60

Get to Know Charities: Hope of the City
Hope of the City works with volunteers to provide services to the community in Sham Shui Po ranging from English lessons for mothers while their children are at school, to tutoring for their school-going children, excursions and outings, to visits to elderly living by themselves.

Get to Know Charities: Voice for Prisoners
Voice for Prisoners (VFP) supports prisoners in Hong Kong to overcome the many challenges faced behind bars, providing humanitarian aid and assistance through various prison programmes including advancing education, prison visitations, mailing and, in certain limited circumstances, case assistance.

Get to Know Charities: The French Chamber Foundation
The French Chamber Foundation is a charitable organization launched in 2015 by the French Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. Its program, “Make It Work HK” (MIW), aims to empower the working poor by providing them with the tools to improve their well-being and livelihood.

Get to Know Charities: PathFinders Hong Kong
Established in 2008 on the belief no child should be born alone and deprived of an identity, basic supplies, healthcare and shelter, PathFinders has improved the lives of over 8,300 babies, children and women.

Get to Know Charities: Agency for Volunteer Service
JC ENGAGE Video Storytelling Winner – Agency for Volunteer Service Why did AVS decide to join the JC Digital Exploration, Video Storytelling series program? We

Get to Know Charities: Hong Kong Society for the Blind
Hong Kong Society for the Blind (HKSB) was established in 1956. It provides a wide range of services for persons with multiple disabilities and visual impairment (MDVI), and residential care for the aged blind.

Get to Know Charities: Plastic Free Seas
Plastic Free Seas (PFS) aims to educate and change the way our society views and uses plastics through education and action campaigns.

Get to Know Charities: Clean Air Network
Through the three pillars of their strategy: building public knowledge, collaborating strategically with different sectors, and advocating policy and solutions to our government, Clean Air Network (CAN) works to clean Hong Kong’s air.

Get to Know Charities: Chinese Family for Christ Hong Kong
Chinese Family for Christ Hong Kong (CFFC) believes that this downward trend can be reversed by providing marriage guidance to couples.

Get to Know Charities: Families of SMA
Families of SMA (FSMA) provides services to children afflicted with SMA, a rare degenerative neuromuscular disease, and assistance for their families.

Get to Know Charities: MakerBay
MakerBay’s vision is to empower youth to innovate solutions for real-life situations. By studying the basic components of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Maths), students are taught to address social, economic, and environmental issues in a holistic and critical manner.

Get to Know Charities: Mind Hong Kong
Mind HK ensures everyone in Hong Kong living with a mental health problem has the recognition, support and respect they need to make the best recovery possible.

Get to Know Charities: Child Welfare Scheme
Meet Avi Rai and Darshan Shakya, managers at Child Welfare Scheme (CWS), an NGO that provides education, protection, and vocational guidance to disadvantaged Nepalese youth. Both of Nepalese heritage, Avi and Darshan have a long history together. Their friendship goes back to their days living in Singapore, where they were roommates.