Rthkoperation Santa Claus 2010

Operation Santa Claus, raised $HK13,372,928 in 2010, the charity campaign’s third highest take ever. People showed their generosity by donating, hosting or participating in events to raise money as part of the campaign, co-organised by RTHK and the Sou...

“Operation Santa Claus 2010” Raised Over 13 Million

If you are wondering what latest gadget you might get for Christmas… imagine how life-changing an Ipad could be for a severely disabled child. Rehabaid works hard to try and find the best way to improve the lives of their disabled clients using the...

More from Operation Santa Claus now, and this year a special feature is the social enterprises that we will be funding. One of them is a ministore that the Women Workers' Association hopes to open on the campus of the College of Technology. The Associa...

Against Child Abuse have been protecting children’s rights in Hong Kong for over 20 years. They work closely with counsellors and trainers, providing a hotline service for children and their families. The agency also focuses on promoting awareness of c...

Alyson Hau hears from Dr T. H. Chan, one of the executive members of the Paediatric Rheumatism Association explaining why do they want to establish an emergency fund.

One of the most common birth defects in China is a cleft lip or cleft palate. Those born with cleft face a whole host of problems - both medical and emotional. And yet a simple surgical procedure could change their entire lives. Since the early 90s, Op...

Peter King went to Lok Fu, and the headquarters of the Hong Kong Alzheimer's Disease Association. He met up with a couple of the relatives of sufferers, and first asked the Executive Director Elise Chung about the services they provide. (4.46 mins)

Two Hong Kong residents, Darren Chan and Dr. Christine Leung, were severly disabled in car accidents; Darren in China and Christine in the UK. Both are confined to wheelchairs. Christine is paralysed from the neck down and can only operate a wheelchair...

Empowing deaf and hard of hearing people, Silence works hard to make it easier for the deaf or hard-of-hearing to communicate with their co-workers in the work place. Tim Littlechild met Founder of the charity Lilian Lee and Chairlady Marion Tang to...

One of the groups is WWF HK , which is looking to improve their “Wetland Ambassador Programme” for children who are living in small group homes. Noreen Mir speaks to Mathew Cheng the Manager of the Mai Po Centre and Andy Leung Markerting Officer and Tr...

The Young Samaritans Peer Support Program offers emotional support training to young people to enable them to become Life Ambassadors to support their peers and promote emotional health and suicide prevention in their schools. Steve James spoke to Tim ...

The Hong Kong Red Cross is a household name now, but there's one branch you might not familiar with, and that's their-in-house special schools. This year, the Hong Kong Red Cross Hospital Schools is a beneficiary of your donations to Operation Santa Cl...

St James' Settlement runs a Special Rag Picking Depot in Kwai Fong to improve the lives of people who make a living from recycling rubbish. Senior Manager Josephine Lee told Angie Man why they feel the need to have a social worker working there "underc...

In November a mainland court ruled against a man who says he was denied a teaching job because he is HIV positive. Official estimates put the number of people in China infected with HIV at 740-thousand. Although some progress has been made, many still...

The Hong Kong Blind Union is looking to provide and improve education for blind children in Mainland China. President Chong Chan Yau, himself a product of the union, told Sarah Passmore that despite ten years of work there the Mainland has a long way t...

Established in 1960 in Kwai Chung, Asbury Methodist Social Services remains one of the Territory’s most respected specialist paediatric speech therapy centres. Community Speech Training Services Centre, to develop a series of “Basic Assessment” init...

Co-organised by Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) Radio 3 and the South China Morning Post (SCMP), “Operation Santa Claus 2010” invites everyone in Hong Kong to invest a little love this Christmas and help those in need. The launch ceremony was held on...