Response to The 2023-2024 Budget Public Consultation – Allocating More Resources to Assist Child-related Institutions Implement Child Safeguarding Policy and Improve Children’s Eye Health
In 2022 Policy Address, the Government has proposed to legislate mandatory reporting for suspected child abuse cases. Apart from mandatory reporting, Plan International Hong Kong (“Plan International”) also considers the necessity of reinforcing child safeguarding mechanism in Hong Kong to minimise the risks of abuse in the first place; Plan International also noticed there is... Read More
Run for Girls! 2023 Save Girls from Child Marriage
Run for Girls 2023 was successfully held on 7 April. We would like to express our most sincere gratitude to you for joining the run and supporting girls’ rights! Here are the results: Female 10.11km Individual Run Senior 1 Senior 2 Master Male 10.11km Individual Run Senior 1 Senior 2 Master 3km Run Individual Run... Read More
Donate A Pencil Campaign 2022 Audit Report
Donate A Pencil Campaign 2022 was successfully held from 21st October 2022 to 13th November 2022. The audit report, which is voluntarily audited by DKNT CPA Limited, is completed. You may click HERE for details. Thank you again for your generous support!
【Emergency】 Devastating Earthquakes Hit Türkiye and Syria Over 70,000 Casualties and Urgent Help is needed for Victims
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck Southern Turkey and Northwestern Syria on 6 February early morning while the second quake of magnitude 7.6 hit again at noon. No such strong earthquake has ever happened for the past century and this “doublet earthquake” has already led to over 47,000 deaths and 100,000 injuries. The affected population... Read More
Senior Programme Officer
OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE: The position builds a program model to provide evidence to actualise children’s rights, especially their rights to participation in Hong Kong. PRINCIPAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Maintain a healthy acquisition pipeline of local programmes, including grant proposals and commissioned projects Provide tailored advice to guide effective implementation, and monitor performance through log frame, budget, and... Read More
Taking A Bath In Slums Puts Girls At Risk Of Being Sexually Harassed
Taking a proper bath should be a time for relaxing from our daily stresses, and it is also a basic human right. However, girls living in the slums in Bangladesh are living in fear of being sexually harassed every time they take a shower. Slums are dark, filthy, and littered areas that most people avoid... Read More
Supporter Gathering 2022 – Showing Your Continued Love and Care for Children’s Future
The Supporter Gathering has ended successfully. Over a hundred participants, including our volunteer ambassador, ex-beneficiaries and supporters attended the event. It has been three years since the last gathering between Plan International Hong Kong, supporters and donors in the 10th Anniversary Gathering. On 27 Nov, the Supporter Gathering 2022 was successfully held in success with... Read More
Senior Officer, Research and Advocacy
PRINCIPAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Formulate and implement campaign/ advocacy strategies to promote child safeguarding policy and child participation in Hong Kong Establish good relations with different external parties including government officials, politicians, professional bodies or pressure groups Identify research topic, design and manage research projects in areas of child-rights and child safeguarding Develop monitoring and... Read More
【Gifts of Hope】Send Love in Christmas Change Children’s Lives with Education
In end August 2022, Plan International (Hong Kong) CEO Dr. Kanie Siu travelled to Bangladesh, one of the countries in the world with the highest child marriage rate, to learn about how girls struggled to survive under child marriage and our related work. Poverty there is further intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to surging... Read More
【Emergency】Indonesia Earthquake Emergency Appeal Many Children Were Killed and Injured Survivors Need Your Urgent Help
The 5.6-magnitude quake has destroyed the Cianjur region in West Java of Indonesia. Starting from Monday (21 November), the earthquake has caused over 260 deaths, 1,000 injured, over 150 people missing, more than 22,000 homes were destroyed and near 60,000 people have been displaced. Lacking water and food, the affected children and their families are... Read More