To create opportunities for eligible non-profit-making organisations to provide support services for ethnic minorities, the Home Affairs Department (HAD) today (March 23) invited eligible and interested organisations to apply for funding to establish and operate support service centres for ethnic minorities in Kwai Tsing, Yau Tsim Mong, Sham Shui Po and Tung Chung. Currently, the HAD has commissioned non-profit-making organisations to operate four support service centres for ethnic minorities in these four districts. Successful applicant organisations will provide services upon expiry of the current agreements with the existing organisations.

     The centres are required to organise and provide language programmes, dedicated programmes for youths, and other types of support services for ethnic minorities. These include orientation and familiarisation programmes for ethnic minorities newly arrived in Hong Kong, as well as integration activities and counselling and referral services, to facilitate ethnic minorities' early integration into the community.

     Details of the project, the application criteria and the briefing session are set out in the Project Brief, which is available on the HAD website (www.had.gov.hk).

     The deadline for application is 5pm on April 27.

Ends/Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Issued at HKT 11:00

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