World Vision Hong Kong supported 2 APs to improve the environment for children to thrive, and empower community members to be resilient, that they would become self-sustainable and be free from the poverty trap.

Child Protection

• Educated about 3,090 adolescent community members on policies or standards and empowered them with advocacy skills, while reaching about 5,640 children in other child protection awareness programmes.
• Nearly 1,120 children and adolescents completed a life skills curriculum on self-efficacy, decision-making, interpersonal relationships, leadership skills and goal orientation to increase competency, confidence and resilience.

• Conducted micro projects to renovate a school’s roof, entrance and buildings, as well as building a safety fence for the play area of a pre-school, benefitting about 1,730 students in total.

• School mid-day meal programme served about 3,350 children in schools and pre-schools with meals through effective collaboration with local government.
• Reached about 680 children under five from nearly 380 households with home gardening and animal husbandry assistances, enabling families to utilise the products for their household consumption.

• Nearly 1,710 members received financial literacy skills training through Savings for Transformation groups.
• Renovated 2 major damaged parts of the only road connected to a village, allowing nearly 770 community members to carry out daily activities such as going to school or transporting their products to be sold.

• Nearly 9,180 vulnerable children and adults have access to drinking water from 15 water supply systems renovated for the communities.

• Addressed the issue of rising malnutrition among pre-schoolers in the community by supporting them with nutritious mid-day meals prepared by a selected supplier together with mothers in the community.