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Strengthening the Rule of Law We promote fairness in the law by advancing the practice of law in the public interest and pro bono work by the legal profession. Our community outreach projects encourage and facilitate a greater public understanding of the law in order to strengthen its rule. Broadening Access to Justice We work to improve access to justice by providing education and assistance to the marginalised and disadvantaged, who otherwise could not afford to pay for private legal assistance, to help them exercise their legal rights and to seek redress. Fostering Innovation We identify areas of need and work collaboratively to innovate and create new models to respond to systemic problems faced by those in our community without the means to adequately protect, advance or represent their own lawful rights and interests.

Kirsten’s Zoo was started by Kirsten Mitchell in 2008 as a response to a number of factors, in particular the need to have a centralised point of contact on Hong Kong Island to help home cats and dogs, as well as other animals in need. In the beginning she funded most of her endeavours out of her own pocket and with the kind assistance of friends and likeminded people. However, in the past few years, we received money from the government which helps with our ever-growing expenses. Her dedication and commitment have meant that hundreds of animals have been successfully homed over the last 20+ years. She has always depended on the financial kindness of animal lovers to help her continue to do what she does and took the decision to found a charity with a view to widening her efforts to help more animals and educating the general public in animal welfare. In the last 5 years we have seen an increase in animals being abandoned and a decrease in sponsors and funding. Many factors have contributed to this, one is the poor breeding in China influx to Hong Kong and the migration to other countries following COVID.

往下紮根, 向上結果 基督教佈道中心念恩堂(CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL CENTRE NIAN EN CHURCH) 有六十年歷史，是一間獨立的堂會，沒有任何宗派的背境。其起源可追溯至一九五六年有一班弟兄姊妹在李應猶醫生家中舉辦的講道聚會及小組查經，後來更舉辦多次的奮興培靈聚會，前來人數過百人，之後，經歷幾次搬遷，終於在1986年正式註冊為基督教佈道中心念恩堂有限公司 (CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL CENTRE NIAN EN CHURCH LTD.)。 本堂於2003年加入香港華人基督教聯會成為會員堂，同心服事眾教會和社區。本堂教友來自香港、九龍、新界，他們熱心事主和追求靈命成長。 本堂早於一九七九年便開始推動宣教事工，除了本地宣教，還有推動國內和海外宣教，並差派宣教士到英國及大西北。每年教會都舉辦短宣及中國福音事工培訓，讓弟兄有機會實踐基督的大使命，如果你想更多了解本堂事工，歡迎您隨時蒞臨本堂參觀或出席本堂主日崇拜。

The Mekong Club is one of the first not-for-profit organizations that works with the private sector to bring about sustainable practices against modern slavery across the globe. Bridging the gap between the public and private sectors, the Mekong Club helps companies of all sizes to understand the complexities of human trafficking and to reduce their vulnerability within their supply chains/business environment. Together with business partners, the Mekong Club is spearheading innovative and strategic projects to achieve a slave-free world.

Bai Xian Asia Institute Limited

Education

Bai Xian Asia Institute (BXAI) believes that cross-cultural education is the key to a harmonious world built on mutual understanding, respect, and equality. Through education programs that empower and inspire scholars in different Asian countries and regions, BXAI seeks to strengthen relationships between the people of Asia, support partnerships between East Asian academic institutions, and cultivate a sense of community and mutual understanding within a changing global landscape. Our Vision and Mission BXAI’s vision is to become Asia’s preeminent educational platform that paves the way towards a prosperous, sustainable, and conflict-free modern Asia. By building bridges across cultures, BXAI seeks to develop a new generation of leaders through scholarship and education programs that create opportunities for intercultural exchange and learning.

Hanli Charity Foundation Limited, The

Environment and Animals

Han Li Charity is dedicated to promoting mental wellness in our community through mindfulness events and workshops. We believe in the power of mindfulness practices to enhance mental clarity, reduce stress, and foster a sense of peace and well-being. Our initiatives aim to make mindfulness accessible to all, offering a supportive environment for individuals to explore and develop their mental resilience. Join us as we journey toward a healthier, more mindful community.

A Hong Kong based NGO providing homemade vegetarian meals and necessities such as toiletries and clothing to individuals experiencing homelessness as well as individuals living below the poverty line, which include retired elderly, elderly cardboard and scrap collectors and community cleaners. With the help of our diverse team that includes volunteers from various walks of life, we come together not only to provide necessities but to build and create connections with our benefeciaries.

Inclusive Business Foundation (IBF) aims to build a diversified ecosystem for nurturing future leaders of global citizenship and creating inclusive opportunities, hence addressing the systemic poverty and rich-poor gap issues. This is a global platform built upon glocal partnerships across different sectors, world-class universities, businesses, and industries. We believe in "Life upon Life" (生命影響生命). Working closely with Inclusive Business Lab (IBL), a global community and platform for the next generation, IBF aims to create new inclusive opportunities and innovative ideas across different disciplines for the next generation, while developing their value system, life purpose, discover themselves and be prepared for future challenges, through different leadership-in-action opportunities and activities like Training the Trainers Leadership Roundtables, Inclusive Music BeatiConcert, Machine Learning Arts BeatiExhibition, Global Inclusive STEM+ Leadership Weeks, etc. We hope to bring positive impact on our next generation from all backgrounds and make the world a better place. Since its inception in 2014, the program has impacted more than 38,000 young people and has worked with more than fifty-five partner schools and universities in China & Hong Kong, Asia, UK, and globally. More than 95% experienced self-discovery, learning that they can be more creative. While 97% feel that they are more ready for new challenges, inspired to make a difference to the world. The program has been recognised as “truly an education of the twenty-first century”, and expects to benefit 25,000 next generation directly and millions indirectly over the next 5 years. This is Economy for Everyone. Inequality and the extreme wealth gap are global issues. Creating jobs alone is no longer enough to tackle the problem. We need our next generation leaders to be inclusive and purpose-driven, to create wealth and economic growth to reach everyone! Through self-discovery and reflective thinking, experiential learning and global challenges, the platform devotes itself to support young people from all backgrounds to reflect and go deeper in their understanding of their value system, and to discover their purpose. With the global diversified ecosystem that we co-create with young people across the different cultures and disciplines, we empower them from all background to unleash their potential and grow to be global leaders who are ethical, purpose-driven, and global-minded. We are Inclusive! Everyone is unique and has infinite value. We hope to inspire next generation to see greater possibilities, motivates them to pursue a purpose greater than themselves, and empowers them to recognise and build on their individual passion, personal strength and unique gift and reach beyond their own immediate success towards significance within the local and global community. Cross-cultural collaboration and social mixing would help to cultivate a love of service to the community and to the wider world, encourage mutual respect and intercultural understanding, while developing the communication skills necessary to forging true global cooperation. The program seeks to support leaders of the future, including those from less affluent regions, to step onto the global stage. Global Inclusive Leadership Program The Global Inclusive Leadership Program aims to develop the next generation of inclusive leaders who are ethical, purpose-driven and global-minded, and focuses on young people from 14 to 35 years of age. Such program is based on a strong set of values which are the drivers in the development of character. Experience of the program encourages self-discovery and enables skills to develop which help the next generation to discover their purpose and vision. It reflects a holistic approach to education in which learning involves not only the head, but also the heart, and in which ideas and sentiments are backed up by action, experience and reflective thinking, resulting in a higher level of thinking and a deeper, richer and more rounded understanding. To help young people to build a stronger inner self, to gain confidence and self-worth, so as to embrace the challenges and cope with uncertainties ahead, we continue to expand the platform despite the global pandemic, and have engaged with more than a thousand youths globally online and face-to-face over the year, through the Training the Trainers Leadership Roundtables and a wide range of leadership-in-action activities. Our young people stories of unconditional love, forgiveness, humility, positive attitude, competence, integrity, personal growth, life of significance and purpose are rich in meanings. Many were turned into music and podcasts, and have inspired many, not only locally, but also further afield globally. https://inclusivebusinesslab.vids.io/videos/4d9edeb01a1cecc9c4/gilp_ttlr_forgiveness-humility-personal-growth-mp4 Inclusive Music is led by young people, artists, musicians and scientists. Our first Inclusive Music album 2019 has reached over 1.5 million streams just over a year! In 2021, we launched another Inclusive Music album “Give Them Voice”, turning young people stories from unconditional love, forgiveness, humility, positive, competence, integrity, growth, significance, purpose, into music/raps. Inclusive Music BeatiConcert is a very special event, when hundreds and thousands of young people will be joining (live or livestream) from different parts of the world, to celebrate their achievements and creativity. There will be machine learning arts BeatiExhibition, augmented reality experiences, quantum music performance as well as Cool Parents live voting! Through livestreaming and multichannel media platforms, we expect to engage millions of young people and bring positive impact to many young lives. https://inclusivebusinesslab.vids.io/videos/ac9edeb01a1ce3c325/gilp_stem_rap_2021-mp4 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) helps cultivating independent and critical thinking and is playing an increasingly important role in shaping the social development and securing economic growth by driving innovation in business and in all areas of industry (including arts and culture) and fostering entrepreneurship. As the pace of technological and scientific progress ever accelerates, there is more and more need for people with understanding of science and technology who can see bigger picture and lead development in a sensible direction, combining creative thought and imagination with technical expertise. We organise Global Inclusive STEM+ Leadership Weeks in multiple cities and countries, which have drawn thousands of young people from different background and disciplines together to take a wide range of real-world challenges: health innovation, quantum music, machine learning arts and sports, and come up with innovative ideas for building their future cities with sustainability and making a better world. Many female students are also taking up leadership roles in science. https://inclusivebusinesslab.vids.io/videos/ea9edeb01a12e8c063/gilp_china_thailand_milestones_2019-mp4 https://inclusivebusinesslab.vids.io/videos/a79edeb31812edc52e/gilp_megan-ansbro_encn-mp4 We constantly innovate and develop our program, with the support of data evidence-based analysis, to ensure its effectiveness and impact. Our curriculums are designed such that young people with different strengths building up each other through teamwork while gaining more in-depth knowledge of the subjects across different disciplines in the process, and developing critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills with contribution towards creativity and innovation as well as self-management skills such as active learning, resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility, which are among the top skills required for ever changing challenges ahead. The program in the making is leadership-in-action. Since 2015, we have empowered many hundreds of young people through experience learning, volunteering and internship opportunities, and awarded more than thirty PhD fellows with diverse backgrounds from STEM, arts & culture to business & economics. Experiencing learning while working with global young leaders on exciting projects are a fertile training ground for preparing the young people for their future opportunities and challenges ahead. Many young people have joined the program for more than eight years, graduated from high schools, then from universities, and return to help. “Be the Example, Be the Culture, Be the Movement!” – the program motivates the next generation to be positive role models and lead a life of significance by adding value to others. What would the world look like when we have leaders who love and give to others? The challenge we are facing across the world will have grave impact on our next generation. The divide in society and conflict in the world also highlight the universal issues and urgent need of a good-value system, mutual respect and understanding among different cultures and social backgrounds. Young people today will shape our societies tomorrow. Let love drive out fear and hate. Let’s bring hope to our young people. Let’s make every city in the world a place where young people from anywhere can dream and work together. With yours, and our partners from across all sectors and different parts of the world, we can create a global community for young people, a platform for nurturing future leaders of global citizenship. Message from Prof Proctor, Provost of King’s College, University of Cambridge: https://inclusivebusinesslab.vids.io/videos/ac9edeb31812ebc425/gilp_michael-proctor_en-mp4 Message from Mr Jesse Wu, former Chairman of Johnson & Johnson China: https://inclusivebusinesslab.vids.io/videos/119edeb31812ecca98/gilp_jesse-wu_encn-mp4 Thank you for your generous support! Dr Violet Lo Founder & Director Inclusive Business Foundation Account Name: Inclusive Business Foundation Limited Account Number: 741-081806-838 Bank Name: HSBC Hong Kong Swift Code: HSBCHKHHHKH Bank Address: 1 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong

GA City Charity Fund Limited

Human Services

感恩城市慈善基金(以下簡稱GA City) 乃由一班熱心公益之核心會員以推廣全城感恩文化為單一目標，以感恩傳承教育為己任，非宗教、非政治、非牟利的慈善機構，於2008年8月在香港註冊成立。 ​ 感恩城市慈善基金本著 『全人考慮』 的觀念，希望集結各機構、團體、學校、家庭及社區等資源和力量，舉辦不同類型的項目，致力協助個人完善的品德，從而建立正面的人生觀，良好的品德是個人生命價值的核心，期望透過感恩傳承教育落實，帶動成為盡責任的公民意識，致力在經濟發展面、環境保育面、社會回饋面等各方面，善盡企業社會責任，積極投入社區於各方面回饋。

In 1980，a group of former Miss Hong Kong Beauty Pageant titleholders and finalists talked about their dreams for Hong Kong and what they could do to touch the lives of those less fortunate. That dream became a reality in 1982 with the birth of the Wai Yin Club. In 1993, the Hong Kong Government certified the Club as the Wai Yin Association, a Charity Institute. Until now，Wai Yin has supported or organized countless charitable activities for individuals and institutions from Hong Kong, mainland China, Myanmar and other Asian Countries. Near hundred of non-government organizations, community centres and schools (including schools and facilities in Guizhou, Sichuan, North Thailand and Myanmar) are named after Wai Yin. Countless recipients, NGOs, charities, and individuals have reaped the rewards of its good work. With every passing year, the Association continues to thrive, serving as a model of hope as well as an inspiration of visionary leadership in social responsibility for the community of Hong Kong. With 40 years of philanthropic legacy, the unwavering commitment to charitable giving, as well as the experience and integrity of each member have made Wai Yin Association the most highly regarded charitable organization in the world whose members are beauty pageant title-holders and finalists. The Association received the “Citation for Impact on the Community” at the “HKMA/TVB Awards for Marketing Excellence 2008” organized by the Hong Kong Management Association and sponsored by Television Broadcasts Limited, for its outstanding contribution to society with effective marketing strategies in bringing awareness and aid to the causes that we all care about. Wai Yin Association has shown that despite differences in aspirations and goals, all sectors, private and public can successfully work together for the greater good of society, especially when we can share a common ideal of “Making a difference for a better tomorrow”. Objectives: Contribute to charitable works Support community services Support local cultural activities Support artists and promote the arts in Hong Kong Promote the international image of Hong Kong

DLAP is a Section 88 (91/19847) /non-profit initiative of Africa Center Hong Kong, designed to support Chinese, African and other ethnically diverse youth from under-resourced backgrounds who aspire for success in their educational, career and professional journey Our mission goes beyond providing support — we strive to align with the top tier of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, to inspire ambition, foster personal growth, and help young people realize their full potential DLAP provides a series of workshops and events to upskill participants and empower them to enter the job market with confidence. We take an inclusive and strengths-based approach to youth development through: Multicultural and inclusive tools and perspectives Harnessing and amplifying the strengths of each youth Focusing on aspirations, purpose, and self-growth Through collaborations with key industry players, youths are provided with career guidance and mentorship, tips for successful interviews and CV writing. Most importantly, DLAP initiatives facilitate networking opportunities that enable the aspiring youths to meet with potential employers in a less intimidating environment

Orbis is an international nonprofit that has been transforming lives through the prevention and treatment of avoidable blindness for over four decades. With our network of partners, we mentor, train and inspire entire local eye care teams – from health workers in rural clinics to eye surgeons in urban centers – so they can work together to save and restore vision, ensuring no one must face a life of avoidable blindness. Working in collaboration with local partners, including hospitals, universities, government agencies and ministries of health, Orbis provides hands-on ophthalmology training, strengthens healthcare infrastructure and advocates for the prioritization of eye health on public health agendas. To learn more about Orbis, please visit www.orbis.org

Connect Institute Limited was founded in 2021 with an aim to connect the communities together by creating regular interactive activities & events for the youth, combating social inequalities by connecting like-minded individuals and most importantly, encouraging introspectionamongtheyouth