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| 140 Volunteers from Hopewell and St. James Settlement to Bring Festive Joy to Singleton Elderly at Tuen Ng Festival | | | 01 Jun 2013
Hopewell Holdings Limited (“Hopewell”) again launched the Tuen Ng Volunteer Visit to Elderly on 1 June 2013 with St. James Settlement in hopes of spreading love to the community. This year, the team consisted of 110 long time supporting HH Social Club members, as well as its business partners, family and friends to form the volunteer team with 140 members who came from different sectors of society. The Volunteer Team has truly demonstrated the spirit of love, unity and the communal harmony, visiting 140 units of singleton elderly in Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, Kwun Tong, Kwai Chung and Kwai Fong. The total number of beneficiaries in Tuen Ng Volunteer Visit Program reached 800 this year. The love shown by the volunteers had warmed the hearts of recipients.
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The event was one of the programmes under “Caring Hong Kong” of “Hong Kong: Our Home”, the citywide public participation campaign launched by the Government. Upholding the Campaign’s mission to “foster mutual help among neighbours and encourage people to show care and concern for the under-privileged and the disadvantaged”, Hopewell aimed to bring laughter and joy to the singleton elderly from St. James’ Funeral Navigation Service by bringing forces from different demographics into this ‘HH Social Club’ Tuen Ng Volunteer Visit.
Representatives from St. James introduced the training through the cases with the team prior to the visits, which enabled volunteers to develop better communication with the elderly and at the same time identify their needs, the elderly will be follow up by St. James and provide appropriate treatment to them. Hopewell also purchased some exquisite velvet pins handmade by St. James’ members as presents to convey its deep thankfulness toward volunteers. The warmhearted Panda Hotel volunteers made rice dumplings with “Five Grains” and in a lighter size, which better suit the appetite of the elderly. Volunteers brought the Hopewell-St. James sponsored bags of presents and shared the festive love and care to the singleton elderly. |
| Hopewell Supports Skip Lunch Day | | | 21 Mar 2013
Hopewell Holdings Limited (“Hopewell”) supported “Skip Lunch Day” organized by the Community Chest to encourage the employees to donate their lunch fees to support the needy. The programme of this year is to benefit the "Services for Street Sleepers, Residents in Cage Homes and Cubicles" supported by the Community Chest. |
| Hopewell and St. James' Settlement Collaborate to Help Intellectually Disabled Youths Realise their Sporting Dreams | | | 14 Mar 2013
Hopewell Holdings Limited (“Hopewell”) and St. James’ Settlement (“SJS”) are pleased to announce that their jointly organised “Strike” Bowling Programme (“Strike”) successfully trained 8 intellectually disabled young athletes to take part in the 37th Hong Kong Special Olympics Bowling Competition on 14 March 2013. The elite bowlers from the “Strike” team won 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals, with over half of the team winning awards in the competition.
Hopewell cares about youth development, and has been organising and sponsoring various community programmes to help young people explore and unleash their potentials. Hopewell, in collaboration with its community partner, SJS, launched the “Strike” in 2011, the Hong Kong’s first bowling training programme targeted at intellectually disabled youths, with the ultimate goal of training athletes to participate in the 37th Hong Kong Special Olympics.
The “Strike” Programme has invited Ms. Vanessa Fung, former representative of Hong Kong Bowling Team, as the coach while Hopewell Social Club volunteers helped out as training partners. All in all, the three bowling training programmes altogether benefited more than 30 intellectually disabled youths. |
| Hopewell’s Corporate Volunteer Team in New Year Visits Single Elderly | | | 23 Feb 2013
Hopewell Holdings Limited (“Hopewell”) is committed to contributing towards a caring community. In particular, Hopewell strongly encourages its staff in volunteering with our NGO partners. In February, Hopewell’s corporate volunteer team joined the “Wan Chai Care for the Elderly Project 2013” in bringing gifts and warm New Year greetings to single elderly people, some of them in their 80s.
Hopewell’s voluntary members found the experience very rewarding, as in return for their gifts and wishes of good health they received sincere thanks and cheerful responses from the elderly. Throughout the visits, members learned about different walks of society and how to communicate better with older people.
The Project was organised by Wan Chai Methodist Centre for the Seniors, Wanchai District Elderly Community Centre of St. James’ Settlement, Eastern and Wan Chai District Social Welfare Office of Social Welfare Department and the Community Building Committee of Wan Chai District Council. |
| Hopewell Supports Walk for Millions 2013 | | | 06 Jan 2013
Hopewell Holdings Limited (“Hopewell”) believes that contributing to the communities in which it operates is important. As a long term supporter of the Community Chest, Hopewell and its staff once again took part in the annual ‘Hong Kong & Kowloon Walk for Millions’, organised by The Community Chest of Hong Kong on 6th January 2013, to give help to the needy. In addition to the company’s donation, Hopewell also matched the staff donations dollar-for-dollar.
Over 150 employees and their families participated in the 10km walk, wearing smart HH Social Club red jackets as they enthusiastically set off from Hong Kong Stadium. The funds raised are used to help support family and children welfare services.
To express thanks for the participating staff members and their families, Panda Hotel, a subsidiary of Hopewell, prepared a barbecue party for Hopewell team members at the destination at Aberdeen Country Park.
Hopewell will continue supporting the Community Chest and various community programmes to help build a more caring community. |
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