Water Project in Shaanxi

Yaozhou District (耀州區) and Yintai District (印台區) are located in the northern part of Shaanxi Province (陝西省). Due to a lack of accessible clean water supply, around three million local people are suffering from shortage of drinking water. Local government tried to alleviate the problem. However, its effort was compromised by economic constraint. HKIE has taken on a project to construct 300 water cellars to enhance villagers’ ability to resist drought and increase agricultural productivity and to provide safe portable water to 300 households (approximately 1,200 beneficiaries) in seven villages.

Laundry Machine to HOLF

In 1965, Wendy Blackmur and Valerie Coniber established The Home of Loving Faithfulness (“HOLF”) in Fanling, New Territories to offer a home to the severely mentally and physically handicapped children, some of whom having been rejected by their families at birth. HOLF moved to the present location in New Territories where there are 4 buildings with the capacity to offer personalized care for up to 28 handicapped children in 1971. HKIE recently heard that one of their industrial class laundry machines was broken. As we have been impressed by what HOLF has done to the community over the years, our Club, together with our daughter club, RC of HK South, took the opportunity to express our thanks by donating a new laundry machine to HOLF.

Hebei Educational project for underprivileged girls

Due to the traditional concept that male gender is more important, many girls in rural China are deprived of their rights to receive education. Our Club worked with the Hebei Education Department to select 150 female needy students and has committed to meet their tuition expenses for the next 5 years. To reduce the administrative cost to a minimum, our Club has decided that this would be a hands-on project from the beginning. Our Club raised the money in Hong Kong and has engaged a local volunteer to take care of the distribution of the money to pay for the students’ tuitions.

Farewell to Victoria Park School for the Deaf

Our Club has had the vision on literacy since it was chartered in 1954. Our Club built a special school named Victoria Park School for the Deaf in Causeway Bay on a piece of land granted by the Hong Kong Government in 1960. Our Club took part in up-keeping the school premises throughout the years, and also sponsored Christmas parties for the students each year. Due to rapid decrease of hearing-impaired students, the school was finally closed down in August 2006. With fond memories, we bid farewell to Victoria Park School of the Deaf.

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