Background
This fund was established in 1906 when $50,000 was raised by members of the Chinese community to start a trust fund in honour of Mr. A.W. BREWIN, the then Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The Fund was reconstituted under the Brewin Trust Fund Ordinance (Cap. 1077) after the Second World War with a statutory committee and with the Secretary for Home Affairs Incorporated as the Trustee of the Fund.
Fund Objectives
The Fund aims to provide assistance for:
the maintenance and benefit of widows, widowers and orphans; and
the relief of hardship of workers employed in Hong Kong who have become wholly or partly incapacitated for work by reason of age, sickness, disability or otherwise.
Method of Application
The Director of Social Welfare, Social Welfare Department, Wu Chung House, Wan Chai, Hong Kong receives and considers applications for miscellaneous or maintenance grants not provided for under the Public Assistance Scheme, such as grants to persons in distress, grants to the aged, handicapped or persons in ill health, allowances to residents of the Home for the Aged, and grants to disabled orphans leaving charitable institutions at the age of 18.
The Commissioner for Labour, Labour Department, Harbour Building, 38 Pier Road, Central, Hong Kong receives and considers applications for grants to employees injured in the course of employment and whose employers have failed to provide compensation.
Applications may be made at any time and should be sent to the relevant address indicated above.
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Contact
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Rm 617, 6/F, One Island South, 2 Heung Yip Rd, Wong Chuk Hang, HK
"F. O. C. U. S." (Focus On Children's Understanding In School)