"CARE FOR CHILDREN - BUILD A BRIGHTER FUTURE'' 7.30 FLAG DAY IN NEW TERRITORIES REGION

Thanks to all the online and offline volunteers for your support

Against Child Abuse has been approved by the Social Welfare Department to organise a Flag Day in the New Territories on 30 July (Saturday). We raise funds to support child protection services, raise community awareness on child abuse prevention and provide parents with positive parenting skills, as well as to equip professionals and to provide training in their handling of child abuse cases. The flag day was successfully held and attracted over 4,000 volunteers, many of whom were parent-child volunteers.

On the day, despite the unstable weather, volunteers were on the streets to raise funds. The young volunteers were very proactive and confident. Parents wiped away off sweats of their children and encouraged them. Parents and children were involved, a great way to improve their relationship while doing good deeds.

In response to the recurrence of the pandemic, apart from recruiting "street volunteers", we also launched "online volunteers" for the first time this year. Many online volunteers responded to our appeal and invited their friends and relatives to make donations. Most of the online donations were initiated by online volunteers.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Seto Wai Ping, a local illustrator, for designing the posters, flag stickers and gold flags. His original cartoon character Happiplayground was incorporated in the design of the flag stickers, which were praised by the volunteers and the public. 

We are also grateful to the following companies for providing media sponsorship to help promote the flag day, including MTR Corporation Limited, Sun Ferry Services Company Limited, the "Star" Ferry Company Limited, Economic Digest and the Sunday KISS platform, so that the public are aware the charity event through different channels.

We were pleased many organisations provided venues as our flag day stations. These included the Shatin Women's Association, the Asbury Methodist Social Service, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong, the Caritas Project Hyacinth, the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Tung Chung Integrated Services, St. Andrew's Parish, Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, House of Salvage, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and various District Offices, so that flag bags could be conveniently returned.

Last but not the least, we would like to thank the schools and organisations that participated and supported the flag-selling activity. These included Creative Kindergarten (Tsing Yi), SALEM-Immanuel Lutheran College, Christian Alliance Toi Shan H.C. Chan Primary School, Shung Tak Catholic English College, St. Anthony's Kindergarten (Belvedere Garden), Asbury Methodist Social Service, the Hiking and Leisure Volunteer Team, the Tong Lok Fun Playground and the Tuen Mun Trunk Sewers Rehabilitation Volunteer Team of Drainage Services Department. Your support empowered the volunteers such that children and families in need had benefited from it.

Read the fundraising report