World Vision Hong Kong supported 6 APs to improve children’s growth environment and empower community members to be resilient, that they would become self-sustainable and be free from the poverty trap.

Livelihoods

• Provided various skills training to support the livelihoods of 12,000 individuals.
• Provided support for over 8,260 most vulnerable children to address their needs on health, education, nutrition and protection.
• Supported and engaged about 3,400 vulnerable families in income-generating activities such as poultry production and farming.

• Reached 65,500 people with preventive behaviour messaging on COVID-19, such as handwashing and social distancing.
• Reached 25,000 children with targeted age-specific health education, including learning experiences designed to increase their knowledge or influence their attitude towards health.
• Provided different training for over 950 parents, caregivers and health workers to improve nutrition, benefiting more than 4,010 children.

• Enabled 56,450 people to gain access to basic drinking water services within 30 minutes round trip of their household through 53 new water collection points installed from water supply systems.
• Constructed handwashing facilities including faucets and 10,000-litre tankers for 9 health centres, benefiting about 39,960 people.
• Conducted programmes to promote hygiene behaviour change in communities, reaching about 10,160 participants and enabling about 2,900 households to have access to new handwashing facilities.

• Provided more than 8,500 children in grades 1 to 3 with print-rich classrooms and local reading materials created by trained language teachers through the Unlock Literacy project model.
• Furnished and improved 36 early childhood education centres with appropriate locally-made play and learning materials, benefiting over 4,780 children aged 3 to 6.
• Supported about 4,680 vulnerable children with school materials as families struggle with huge price increases.

• Helped about 7,030 children secure their birth registration documents, which legalise children’s citizenship, rights and protect them against different child-related abuse and violence.
• Promoted life skills by organising different development events, facilitating the physical, mental and emotional well-being of about 5,760 children aged 6 to 18.

• Formed 448 savings groups with over 9,200 members, which enabled more than 22,110 children's basic needs to be covered as members engaged in income-generating activities.
• Provided business training for over 1,350 members from 46 producer and marketing groups.
• Constructed a menstrual hygiene management block in a school to improve the hygiene practice of about 390 girls, which in turn improves their school attendance.