Amount raised :Donors : $3,000Comedy night
Jane Goodall is not just a renowned expert on chimpanzees. The local branch of her Institute runs a ‘Roots and Shoots’ programme, which tackles issues in the areas of Animals, Environment and the Human Community. It helps young people start and implement environmental initiatives and service-learning projects. Institute staff can also run environmental activities in English at your school.

Amount raised :Donors : $3,000Lotus Blossom Property Agents
Playright Children's Play Association (Playright) was founded in 1987. It played a leading role in establishing themed playgrounds in public parks and currently helps inspect these facilities. It conducts research and lobbies for more children’s play facilities. Playright also trains professionals working with children and runs a toy library at Hong Kong's Central Library. It provides play services at local hospitals and also has mobile play facilities.

Here is a quote from Playright’s website. “We respect children's voice, and try our best to help children's Play dreams come true.”

Donation
Through Choices, Lotus Blossom Ltd. has donated $3,000 to Playright. Its director, Charina Wong, has a toddler and can see the importance of play in Hong Kong. She has been a property agent on Hong Kong Island for more than 15 years and has helped hundreds of expats find somewhere to live. You can contact Charina at cwong@lotusblossomhk.com or 2882 6080.

Amount raised :Donors : $3,000Comedy night
Hong Kong Student Aid Society has been helping local children for more than fifty years. It currently runs two hostels and homes for children who cannot live with their family. Its foster care services council hundreds of children and families. Hong Kong Student Aid Society also runs two schools.

The Director, Peter Kwan, says, “We serve and educate the needy children who mainly come from families with inadequate care by providing them with all necessary care and concern so that their potentials can be developed to the full."

Amount raised :Donors : $2,500Comedy night
$500Jonathan Smith
$200Perry Bayer
The plight of the white dolphin is much publicised in Hong Kong but this creature is still under threat. The Society seeks to educate the public on the conservation of whales, dolphins and porpoises in Hong Kong. We run seminars for schools in English or Cantonese. HKDCS also runs dolphin watching trips locally.

Amount raised :Donors : $3,000Comedy night
Hong Kong Alzheimer's Disease Association aims to provide services & resources for persons with dementia as well as their families. The mission is to help relieve family members' caregiving stress and to promote public awareness and professional knowledge of the disease. Presently, the Association runs three service centres located in Lok Fu, Wan Chai and Sheung Wan and will operate two more new service centres in Tseung Kwan O and Tsuen Wan in this year. Services include a day centre, in-home training, early detection, resources centre, counseling, dementia care hotline, carer support, community education and publications.

Amount raised :Donors : $3,000Comedy night
Our Mission :
To promote family literacy by facilitating access to the best children's books and empowering parents and teachers to read aloud with children for future success in school and life.

Our Programs :
The Bookcase Library Program – places bookcases filled with quality, age-appropriate children's books in Chinese and English into nurseries, kindergartens, health clinics and community centres. All of the books are selected by literacy experts.

The Book Bag Library Program - serves as a lending library. It provides an easily accessible selection of quality children's books and audio recordings that enhance reading skills and language acquisition. The Book Bag Library contains about 220 books for children ages 0 to 11 years.

The First Teachers™ Program - enhances both Library programs by engaging and educating parents, childcare providers, and teachers on the critical importance of reading aloud and read aloud strategies

Amount raised :Donors : $3,000Anonymous
AFS is one of the biggest worldwide cultural exchange organisations. Students from all over the world, including Hong Kong, spend a year living and studying in another country. AFS runs a Cultural Fair in Hong Kong. About 1,200 local students can interact with exchange students and ethnic minorities from India, Pakistan and Nepal. Donations will go to fund this fair.

Amount raised :Donors : $1,870Comedy night
$1,000Mark Thomas
Serving a world of need, Crossroads, true to its name, provides an intersection which brings the right people together to help. It does so in four ways.

• Global Distribution: Even as people battle dire poverty around the world, Hong Kong manufacturers, companies and others pour high quality goods into Crossroads' warehouse: computers, medical equipment, educational supplies, clothing, household goods, books, electrical goods and more. The Government of the Hong Kong SAR provides Crossroads with 200,000 square feet of storage. With any one dollar donated, Crossroads can therefore send goods worth at least twenty dollars both locally and around the world.
• Global Handicrafts: Unfair trade conditions make it tough for communities trying to work their way out of poverty. Global Handicrafts is a colourful marketplace with products from scores of producers and artisans, operating on a Fair Trade basis: jewellery, chocolate, coffee, tea, soap, candles, carvings, pottery, silks and more.
• Global Village: It is said, "I cannot understand a man unless I walk a mile in his shoes." In Global Village, visitors are invited to 'step into the shoes' of people grappling with world need. Rather than hearing a lecture on these issues, people 'x-perience' something of them, through simulation: war, refugee life, manual labours, poverty, HIV/AIDS, blindness and more.
• Global Hand: In today's era of Corporate Responsibility, many companies are looking for NGOs with whom they can co-operate to help a hurting planet and its hurting people. Often, though, they have trouble finding partners. Global Hand is an online matching service that helps connect profit and non-profit organisations. It has also built a special application of its software for the United Nations, partnering with the corporate sector.