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Cindy Sui
SCMP Contributor
‘It’s great … the company has given us such a good platform to play ball and at the same time help disadvantaged groups. It’s a very meaningful activity,’ employee says.
Be Priceless will offer courses and workshops to more children with special education needs using funding from Operation Santa Claus.
Kids4Kids equips young people, regardless of their socioeconomic background, with the right skills to create positive change.
Parks and Trails works with wheelchair users to identify wheelchair-friendly trails and Operation Santa Claus funding will help it expand programme.
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‘We don’t see this as an ability issue but more of an opportunity issue,’ says head of Love 21 Foundation, selected for annual fundraising drive Operation Santa Claus.
With help of Operation Santa Claus, local charity Grassroots Future will be able to provide donated laptops to needy children.
Community project under Methodist Epworth Village Community Centre set to launch next year with funding from OSC.
Local charity Mind HK will launch the Improving Access to Community Therapies (iACT) project with support from Operation Santa Claus.
Families of SMA Foundation is one of 11 charitable projects receiving funding from OSC this year.
Andrew Ng will launch project which will not only get inmates to work out, but also use the calories they burn to feed people in need.
Silence aims to provide counselling, mental health talks, museum visits and forest outings for its beneficiaries next year.
Discovery Mind Educational Organization shares its secret to being awarded the top school fundraiser by OSC for 13 years.
Wing Ding Squash Charity Tournament, which marked its 25th year, raised more than HK$447,000 for Operation Santa Claus.
Zubin Mahtani Gidumal Foundation’s centre for ethnic minority children offers free therapy sessions to youngsters with special needs, as well as guidance for parents.
Asia Pacific Youth Development Foundation is trying to narrow the ‘widening opportunity gap’ between youngsters in well-off and low-income families.
SLCO Community Resources’ project aims to create community that can communicate with hand gestures and signs.
‘At least we elderly people have more to eat now,’ says a 66-year-old retiree who lives on monthly government subsidy of HK$4,000.
St Barnabas’ Society and Home says new assessment project will help elderly people avoid falls and risks from broken bones.
RainLily, city’s first sexual violence crisis centre, says statistics show one in seven women have experienced sexual abuse.
Inspiring Girls Hong Kong connects young girls with women role models, helping them overcome stereotypes about what careers they should pursue.
Charity Teen’s Key Hong Kong says many Hong Kong teenagers not well informed about how to practise safe sex or tell their partner what they are comfortable with.
YAMA Foundation’s yoga therapy has helped Elia, 11, who suffers from rare disease, improve coordination skills, her mother says.
Money from this year’s Operation Santa Claus fundraising drive, along with other sources, will help it provide specialised care to 500 children from low-income families.
Christian Action’s Centre for Refugees is among 15 charitable projects being funded by Operation Santa Claus, a joint effort by South China Morning Post and RTHK.
‘We want to raise awareness about mental health among underprivileged children because they have no resources,’ executive director Josephine Leung says.
ImpactHK is among beneficiaries of Operation Santa Claus, a fundraising drive organised by the South China Morning Post and RTHK
Some of the Home of Loving Faithfulness residents such as Fung Tai and Fu Fu have spent more than half a century there.
It is crucial to help marginalised ethnic minority residents assimilate and excel in the city, IBEL charity founder Manoj Dhar says.
While parents sold baked goods, the student council organised an ‘Entrepreneur Day’ for peers to sell snacks, books and toys.
