KFBG Autumn Festival 2018

KFBG Autumn Festival is Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden‘s yearly large-scale on-site event to celebrate and appreciate nature’s gifts and showcase ways of living in harmony with our environment.

The themes of this year’s Autumn Festival are connecting people with Nature, conservation, and low-carbon living. Apart from the usual plant and animal exhibits, various experiential activities will be set up to promote physical and mental wellness. Activities include: “Upside Down” Exploring the World of Bats Exhibition, Green Market, Experiential Activities, Through the Innocent Eyes Parent-child Photo Event, Art Workshops, Guided Tours, Animal Encounters and Story-telling Activity.

Come explore the wilderness and celebrate the autumn season through one of the many experiential activities at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden on the 3rd and 4th November 2018!

For more information please email edu_programme@kfbg.org

Date: 3-4 November 2018 (Saturday & Sunday)

Time: 9:30am – 5:00pm (Last admission: 4:00pm)

Place: Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden
For directions, please follow this link

About Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG): Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) spreads over 148 hectares of land on the northern slopes of Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong’s highest mountain, near the town of Tai Po.

KFBG has a deep-set valley between two ridges, with a stream running steeply down through the forest. On the slopes there are forest, theme gardens, vegetable terraces, 8km of walking trails, 9km of roads, and conservation and educational facilities.

The Farm was established in 1956 to provide agricultural aid to farmers in need of support to help them lead independent lives; and to provide leisure and educational experience for the public. The theme gardens were designed and planted from the 1960’s onwards, and through planting, natural process and protection from fire, what was once barren scrubland is now mature forest. Visitors are welcome.

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Race the Peak needs Volunteers

#RaceThePeak to support HandsOn on Sat Nov 10! Race the Peak is a family fun run that will raise funds for HandsOn Hong Kong to continue running as a community-focused charity that mobilises people to serve at no charge to HandsOn’s non-profit partners and volunteers.

Volunteers are needed to provide support during the race through marshaling, handing out water, medal distribution and managing the info desk and bag check area.

Date: Saturday, 10 November 2018

Time: 7am – 12pm

Place: Hong Kong, Peak Galleria

Volunteer Limit: 65

To register and for more information, please follow this link

About HandsOn Hong Kong: Founded in 2007, the HandsOn Hong Kong mission remains to mobilize and empower the community to meet pressing social needs in Hong Kong through volunteer services.

Their vision is for a caring community that gives its time and talent to transform Hong Kong.

In 2017 alone, HandsOn Hong Kong organized over 1,400 volunteer activities, serving more than 46,000 beneficiaries, including disadvantaged children and youth, isolated elderly, ethnic minority students, under-resourced families, refugees and people with disabilities. Join HandsOn Hong Kong in their mission to serve Hong Kong’s community!

Michaelmas Fair 2018 & Xmas Cards

The Christmas Fair of the year is just around the corner. Michaelmas Fair at St. John’s Cathedral is a Hong Kong institution, with game stalls, marching bands, second-hand clothes, white elephant, charity stalls, and tons of Christmas gift ideas!

If it’s Christmas cards you are after, they have those too, or pop into the Cathedral’s Bookstore which stocks probably the largest collection of charity cards in Hong Kong.

Date: Saturday, 28 October 2018

Time: 10am – 4pm

Place: St. John’s Cathedral, Garden Road

Empowering Girl Scholars in Vietnam

To support the continued growth of Room to Read‘s Girls Education Program in Vietnam, Spiga is thrilled to host an inspiring evening of great friends, fantastic food, abundant high-quality libations and an exciting silent and live auction. This event will sell out fast so get your tickets now!

The price of the ticket includes champagne on arrival, a three-course sit-down dinner, fantastic wines personally chosen by Amy Powell and John Wood and a signed copy of John’s latest book, Purpose Incorporated: Turning Cause into Your Competitive Advantage, to thank you for your generous support of Room to Read’s work!

Room to Read is changing the future for millions of children across the developing world via the lifelong gift of education. But there is SO much more we need to do, and tonight’s event will underwrite at least 200 years of Girl Scholars in Vietnam. Thank you in advance for helping them to achieve their dreams.

Date: Thursday, 11 October 2018

Time: 6:30-9pm

Place: Spiga, 3/F, LHT Tower, 31 Queens Road, Central

Price: $550 + handling charge
To get your ticket, follow this link to Eventbrite

About Room to Read: Room to Read envisions a world in which all children can pursue a quality education, reach their full potential and contribute to their community and the world.

To achieve this goal, Room to Read focuses on two areas where they believe Room to Read can have the greatest impact: literacy and gender equality in education. Room to Read works in collaboration with communities and local governments across Asia and Africa to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and support girls to complete secondary school with the life skills they’ll need to succeed in school and beyond by building and stocking libraries, building bright ventilated classrooms, publishing books in the local language, training educators and providing one-on-one support to teachers, and supporting girls to stay in school by providing material support—such as school fees, clean uniforms or transportation, in addition to mentoring and life skills training to help girls succeed in the classroom and beyond.

For more information please visit their website.

Christina Noble Foundation

The Christina Noble Foundation</strong> is an international partnership of people dedicated to helping underprivileged children and those at-risk of commercial or sexual exploitation.

Their operational centres in Vietnam and Mongolia provide shelter to underprivileged, orphaned or abandoned children whilst ensuring all children in their care have direct access to a good education, a high standard of healthcare, and other social and employment opportunities. CNCF also engages in sustainable development initiatives that directly benefit the families and wider communities of the children they support. To date the Foundation has helped over 700,000 children and their families.

CNCF Hong Kong strives to raise funds to support these projects that create safe, stable, and caring environments to ensure each and every child has a happy childhood and the opportunity to recognise their life potential. CNCF is proud to be an independent, grassroots charity that works tirelessly to secure their current and future funding and being wholly transparent and accountable to their donors and supporters while single-mindedly focusing on the children.

Volunteer in Hong Kong: CNCF Hong Kong prides themselves on having a top-class team of passionate and committed volunteers that manage everything from fundraising in the commercial sector to organising exciting fundraising events, and designing their website or annual reports. Volunteering with CNCF Hong Kong will provide you with a great opportunity to gain diverse experience in a successful and growing non-profit organisation.

CNCF Hong Kong is always looking for new, enthusiastic people to join their core team either in an individual capacity or as an organization offering your professional services. Join a team of highly professional, motivated people who are passionate about the children and the programmes that CNCF Hong Kong supports in Vietnam and Mongolia.

CNCF HONG KONG IS KEEN TO RECRUIT VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING DISCIPLINES:
1) Administration
2) Graphic Design
3) Event organisation
4) Business Development

If you have any of the above skills and can spare CNCF Hong Kong a day a week on a regular basis – please contact CNCF Hong Kong!!

Volunteer Overseas: Key to Christina Noble Foundation’s success as a Foundation is their volunteer workforce. Volunteers are the fuel for their fire and CNCF believes that everyone involved benefits from the experience.

If you would like to volunteer individually at one of CNCF’s operational centres in Vietnam or Mongolia, please visit the CNCF International website to learn more about what skills they are looking for and their application process.

If you work for an organization that is interested in volunteer opportunities for your staff, please contact CNCF for information on Corporate Volunteering.

For more information, please contact CNCF Hong Kong
Email: hongkong@cncf.org
Telephone: +852 3750 7771 (CNCF office hours are 10:30am to 5:30pm, Monday to Friday)

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS – Typhoon Mangkhut relief

The devastating impact has been felt across Hong Kong, from fallen trees and unearthed pavements to loss of electricity and even access to drinking water. Miraculously no lives were lost, but many Hong Kong NGOs—and individuals—are in need of immediate support.

Please follow this link to the appeal that Hands On has sent out on behalf of a number of organisations looking for volunteers.

Let’s join hands and help the less fortunate in Hong Kong get back on their feet!

Animals Asia Foundation “Coffee With Jill”

Animals Asia‘s Founder & CEO, Jill Robinson MBE, Dr med vet hc, Hon LLD will be spending the afternoon with you and talk about Animals Asia‘s work in supporting Cat & Dog welfare, ending bear bile farming and their campaigns to improve the welfare of the animals across Asia.

*Sponsored by Whiskers N Paws

Date: Saturday, 8 September 2018

Time: 2-3pm

Place: Whiskers N Paws, 10/F, Horizon Plaza, 2 Lee Wing St, Ap Lei Chau

Price: Free, please RSVP by following link to EventBrite

About Animals Asia Foundation: Founded in 1998, Animals Asia promotes compassion and respect for all animals and works to bring about long-term change. They work to end the barbaric bear bile trade, which sees over 10,000 bears kept on bile farms in China, and, according to official figures, about 1,200 suffering the same fate in Vietnam.

Animals Asia has rescued over 500 bears, caring for them at its award-winning bear sanctuaries in China and Vietnam.

Animals Asia also works to end the trade in dogs and cats for food in China and Vietnam, and lobbies to improve the welfare of companion animals, promote humane population management and prevent the cross border export of “meat dogs” in Asia.

In addition, Animals Asia campaigns for an end to abusive animal practices in zoos and safari parks in Asia, and works closely with governing authorities to improve animal management and increase awareness of the welfare needs of captive animals.