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The Sir Robert Ho Tung Charitable Fund has allocated $9 million to 194 charitable projects in the areas of medicine and health, rehabilitation, social welfare, education, community service and anti-drug abuse in the 2014 allocation.
A spokesman for the Fund's Allocation Committee said today (December 24), "The fund's donation enables over 100 organisations to enhance their services, which will benefit a large number of people, especially the underprivileged."
Major grants included:
* $1.61 million for the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals to purchase medical and rehabilitation equipment and to organise education camps for children with special needs;
* $717,500 for Haven of Hope Hospital to acquire medical and nursing equipment;
* $383,700 for the Hong Kong Tuberculosis, Chest and Heart Diseases Association to acquire medical equipment for Grantham Hospital and improve the facilities for Ruttonjee and Tang Shiu Kin Hospitals;
* $378,500 for the Po Leung Kuk to acquire nursing and rehabilitation equipment and organise programmes for children with special needs;
* $246,900 for the Hong Kong St John Ambulance to acquire first aid and dental equipment and provide first aid training for volunteers;
* $225,700 for Tuen Mun Hospital to purchase medical equipment for patients;
* $211,300 for the Salvation Army to acquire equipment and organise programmes for children, youth and elderly services; and
* $202,600 for the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children to purchase furniture and equipment for its nursery schools and child care centres.
Other fund recipients included the Christian Family Service Centre, Emmanuel Church Shatin Nursery School, Evangel Children's Home, the Free Methodist Church of Hong Kong Social Service Division, Haven of Hope Christian Service, the Hong Kong Red Cross, the Hong Kong Society for the Aged, Kowloon Hospital and Prince of Wales Hospital.
The Sir Robert Ho Tung Charitable Fund, one of the major trust funds in Hong Kong, was set up in 1956 with a bequest of $500,000 by the late Sir Robert Ho Tung. It is now managed by HSBC Trustee (Hong Kong) Limited.
Ends/Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Issued at HKT 11:05
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