The Airline Flight That Lasts A Lifetime

“I was most excited when the plane started speeding down the runway. It was so noisy! And the sinking feeling right after the take-off made some of us so scared that they even threw up!” - One of the children from our Centre.

Do you remember the first time you ever flew in an airplane? The excitement as you boarded? The cacophony of noise as it hurtled down the runway? We all do. And that’s why I’m so grateful for the Lions Club of Kowloon City.

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Qinghai Earthquake News and Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is a time to feast and to visit family members. It is a time to celebrate the blessings of the past and welcome the blessings and prosperity of the year to come.

Chinese New Year 2022 will be remembered for many years to come in Qinghai, China. On January 8th the Province’s Northern region was struck by an earthquake. Miraculously none of the children or staff in our Xining, Huangnan, Hainan and Haixi Children’s Homes were hurt! Praise God!

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CA Volunteer Wins Prestigious AmCham Award

“Our clients, the people who use Christian Action’s (CA) Centre for Refugees, come from all parts of the world. They have all been through terrible trauma before coming to Hong Kong but they always have smiles on their faces! I don’t think of it as work for me. It’s volunteering - I am helping, empowering and making a difference.” Rob Farrall

I am honoured to announce that our very own Rob Farrall, a volunteer with our Centre for Refugees, has won the Hong Kong American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Ira Dan Kaye Community Service Award!

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COVID, A Single Mother and Her Three Young Children in 80 Square Feet of Living Space

Ms. Lee, a single mother of three, lives in a cramped 80-square-foot subdivided flat in Kowloon. She does her best to be a full-time mother while somehow holding down a part-time job, but COVID stretched her to breaking point. Over the past 2 years when school was mostly online, Ms. Lee’s oldest son Michael couldn’t take class because her two youngest children were using the family’s only electronic devices for their schooling.

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What a Wonderful World

Have you ever given a gift simply out of tradition or habit? Or received one with the same lack of ‘connecting’ to the person who gave it?

Last month we held a Christmas party for our After-School Child Care Service programme children and some of the elderly folk from the surrounding community. It was wonderful!

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