Category: poverty
We are delighted to celebrate the presentation of certificates for the 210th Congregation at the faculty of Social Sciences. Today is especially meaningful for all of us at Faith in Love because one of the members of the congregation is our very own Rose 🌹 Li Hiu Kuen who we have sponsored for the past […]
Volunteering from the heart ♥️ is the core mission of Faith in Love, that is to give our time unconditionally to connect with another human being and being vulnerable to that connection. Let’s face it, face to face interactions have become more difficult and awkward these days when we’ve been primed by the social distance […]
Today Faith in Love wrote to Mr Secretary-General H.E. Antionio Guterres of the United Nations New York Headquarters to confirm our support of the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. With this, we express our commitment to making the UN Global Compact and its principles part of […]
The Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department periodically releases information on the poverty situation within our city. An analysis can be found here. The department tables list a pre-intervention, purely theoretical assumption of 1.65 million “poor” people (a poverty rate of 23.6%). This percentage is reduced to 7.9% after applying all selected intervention measures including […]