Care for Community
With a view to helping families of
victims of accidents and other cases where urgent assistance was required, we
set up an Emergency Relief Fund which duly supported many needed people.
In support of World Vision, we sponsored
their "Water For Life" project. Donation was also given to the Sir
Edward Youde Fund as well as the Mexico earthquake victims.
When students of the Chinese University
of Hong Kong organised the "Fitness in Fo Tan" Project aiming
at educating the working people in the Fo Tan District on how to adapt to their
working environment and to take care of their health, we fully supported them.
To help at-risk families, we sponsored
the Family Ambassadors Scheme promulgated by the Hong Kong Family Welfare
Society which involved training women volunteers and participating in streetwise
roving exhibition on effective parenting and also door-to-door visits to those
families at risk.
Recognizing the meaningful work of
the Hong Kong Eating Disorders Association Limited, we supported their
fund-raising project to help serious patients of Anorexia or Bulimia. We also
contributed to the setting up of a training-cun-resources centre at Tung Tau
Centre run by the Suicide Prevention Services.
For consecutive years, we also sponsored
our Golden Z members of Chinese University to teach English to new immigrants
from the Mainland during the summer.
In cooperation with our Sister Zonta
Clubs in Hong Kong, the Zonta Health Van has since 2001 been in operation to
serve the breast cancer awareness project of the Hong Kong Federation of
Medical Societies Charitable Foundation. The project was the recipient of
the Merit Award in the Zonta International District 17 Seervice Awards. Phase
2 of the programme, the Zonta Health Ambassador Programme, commenced
in May 2004. It has extended its service for teenage girls and young women in
schools, covering 18 education institutions.