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Spring/Summer 2015
Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF Newsletter
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Speak up
At the age of 17, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest winner
of the Nobel Peace Prize. Undeterred by terrorist bombs, her
courage prevailed and as a child rights advocate, she raised her
voice with even more conviction. She is a living proof that youth’s
powerful voice can change the world.
To make sure more young people are heard, UNICEF has harnessed its international
programme, Voices of Youth (VOY), as a global mouthpiece. In places like Brazil and Haiti,
children and youngsters are using mobile technology to record social issues via VOY Map,
to inform related government organizations as well as their local communities.
In Hong Kong last year, besides collaborating with Radio Television Hong Kong Radio 2
and creating an on-air platform for VOY hosts to represent young peers, we piloted the
VOY Community Inspectors programme to help investigate our communities, connect
with marginal families and consider the social issues facing those children.
I was very impressed with our VOY representatives who shared unique insights into
children’s needs after visiting families in a subdivided flat. While most adults are
preoccupied with problems of expensive rent and the deficiency in housing policies, her
concern was the child without a proper place to do homework. This is why I listen to VOY
with fresh interest each week. I think nowadays young people speak out more boldly and
with more determined focus than we did. Back them and we will see our youth step up
as society’s trailblazers of tomorrow or indeed, even of today!
Yours sincerely,
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Acknowledgements
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Judy Chen, JP
Chairman of the Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF
The Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF
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Listen
children are
changing the world!
VOY
was founded in
1995 as a key
UNICEF initiative
to realize children’s
right to participate
globally. It provides an
online platform to allow
young people to learn
about international affairs
and become world citizens
invoking changes in society.
VOY now runs in multiple
countries such as France, Nepal,
Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia and
Liberia. UNICEF HK introduced VOY
locally in 2010 and created platforms for
children and young people’s thoughts and
opinions through radio broadcasting and
online blogging.
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People say children are the future pillars of society; children of the 21st century speak with their
actions and prove to be trailblazers of society. We have all read of the child of our time on news
headlines, Malala Yousafzai, youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, but many more
untold children are fighting closely with UNICEF for the betterment of their communities.
They are in every corner of the world detecting and exposing every unjust and unfair
problem, which violate children’s rights and go against sustainable development. All
they wish is to bring real changes and improvements to their communities.
‘youth’ want,
Voices of Youth (VOY) Maps initiated in
Brazil and Haiti in 2011 and has since
spread to Kosovo, France, Bhutan,
Argentina and Madagascar.
When a problem is located, a red point will
appear on the map. Imagine all communities
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After founding the global initiative VOY in 1995, UNICEF launched
Thanks to VOY mappers of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, the dire conditions of the
VOY Maps in Brazil and Haiti in 2011 to recruit teenagers as VOY
community plaza’s surroundings are featured on VOY Maps and recognized by the
mappers of their communities to capture concerning issues in GPS
local government and NGOs. They collaborated with VOY mappers and engaged
tagged images and videos with smartphones before uploading them
the community to rectify the problems. In a few months, they cleared away two
onto the internet through a UNICEF mobile application. The valuable
tonnes of rubbish and repaired public facilities. Inspired by this operation, a resident
digital evidence is then presented to governments and stake holders
artist mobilized the community to beautify the neighbourhood with graffiti themed
to carry out requisite responses.
around “Preserve What is Ours,” breathing life back into the plaza.
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VOY Maps do more than expose problems, they also detect hidden dangers within
their communities. “Girls in our community are particularly at risk of sexual assault
when they have to walk a long way through dark corridors to go to the toilet,”
said Daniela, who joined VOY Maps when she was 17. She mapped an abandoned
house full of garbage and used condoms to warn her peers of the potential crimes
and risks of contracting HIV and other diseases around the area.
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education and girls’ rights, sadly making her a target of Taliban attacks.
about peace. Coming from seven war-torn countries of
When she was only 13, she hosted a children’s conference supported
Central and Southern Africa, 52 children aged 13-17
by UNICEF. In October 2012, a Taliban gunman shot her and two other
gathered in Bujumbura in Burundi for the Children’s Forum
texts to share their experience growing up in conflict zones.
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to defend education for girls. In July 2013, New York, Malala
declaration to Mrs Mary Robinson, the regional United
convened with international youth leaders of UNICEF and other
Nations Special Envoy, and to the Heads of State from
organizations in support of the United Secretary-General’s Global
Africa’s Great Lakes Region. Mrs Robinson encouraged
Education First Initiative to have all children, especially girls in
the children to continue initiating change for the future.
school and learning.
“I do believe young people have every possibility to
influence. You have clear ideas, and you are more
Her story inspired two million people to sign up for the Right to Education
idealistic.” she said.
campaign, which contributed to the rectification of Pakistan’s first Right
to Education bill. She also set up the Malala Fund to help girls receive
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education at school. Last Year, Malala became the youngest Nobel
laureate, when jointly awarded the Nobel Peace prize with Indian child
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girls on the school bus in Pakistan.
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they are seldom well consulted when it comes to discussions
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voiceless children who want change. Malala Yousafzai
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education. It is for those frightened children who want peace. It is for those
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Hong Kong’s youth refuses to be outshone by international peers in the journey of
community betterment. Through Voices of Youth (VOY) and UNICEF Club established by
UNICEF HK, these young people stepped out of the classroom and got into communities to
portray Hong Kong’s societal needs. Becoming high-flyers is not their goal. They are simply
passionate about enabling a better future for Hong Kong children both today and tomorrow.
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VOY inspectors
target six issues
SOCIAL ISSUES
are the Hong Kong youth
most concerned about?
Another host Abby, 23, visited Ying Ying, a five-year-old girl suffering from
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In 2007 UNICEF HK founded UNICEF Club (UC) to promote the concept of
developmental delay. After interviewing her parents and a social worker, Abby
global citizenship amongst secondary school students and support student
discovered that children with special educational needs have to wait on average
committee of UC in organizing school activities that foster child rights. Suki
up to 18 months before receiving government-funded treatments. “Hong Kong
Wong Hiu-lam, a secondary five student of Belilios Public School, became a
is not a backward city, but why do our patients have to wait for as long as one
member of UC and is now the Chairperson. Her experience illustrates how UC
and a half years?” Abby lamented. Ying Ying waited almost two years to be
Following the success of the first regular radio show produced and hosted by teenagers,
treated, and her mother worries for her future because government funding will
UNICEF HK and Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) Radio 2 continue to collaborate and promote
stop when she turns six. After the visit, Abby raised the issue with Government
Hong Kong’s VOY. This year we launched VOY Community Inspectors programme. Crossing
at the Children’s Rights Forum. She plans to continue producing videos to raise
different communities to inspect worrying social issues, it lets young VOY hosts film a day spent
wider social awareness. does change to children’s lives.
Suki explained that through UC over the past few years, she has organized
dozens of differing sized events that advocate child rights both in and out of
school, but one impacted her the most. It was a an educational training camp
with each marginalized group and spoke out on behalf of vulnerable children.
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Earlier, to pinpoint areas in need of investigation, a VOY team carried out a
and her fellow host Abby Leung Wing-ki tried out the pilot VOY Community Inspectors programme
survey in Mongkok. Over a hundred young people were interviewed about
last year. Well looked after by her family and domestic helper, Nicole is concerned about those
their most pressing social concerns, over half of them were most concern about
children who live in subdivided flats. She spent a day with a primary five student, nicknamed Kin,
poverty. Later this year, Abby will once again visit children live in poverty, other
who lives in a subdivided flat in Mongkok. She helped shop for and make dinner, doing chores and
VOY hosts will visit teenage girl who is being bound to wheelchair and young
experiencing unbearable kitchen and toilet conditions. “Kin had to constantly move things around
person suffering from diabetes. By spending a day with youth so affected, the
just so he could have some space to eat or do homework.” she said. Housing issues impose serious
VOY inspectors hope to speak out publically on their behalf and focus attention
restrictions on children’s all round development and their impact should not be overlooked.
on understanding social issues from a youthful perspective.
so that students could experience firsthand the pain of affected children.
“I used to avoid South-East Asians but I could really feel the torment of
discrimination after the camp,” she said. Since then Suki has learnt to accept
and respect different races and to realize how blessed she is compared to
many other people. That is why she grasps every opportunity she has to
volunteer through her school and give what she can to help the needy.
UC is now running in 37 local secondary schools and international schools.
Different schools organize a variety of activities like community visits,
simulated games and workshops to promote the concept of global citizenship
and foster child rights amongst secondary school students.
After spending a day with Kin who lives in a subdivided flat in Mongkok, Nicole realized that housing
issue imposes serious restriction on children’s all round development.
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Ronald McDonald House Charities, Suki (left) and her classmates helped to
clean up the house.
Abby discovered children with special education needs have to wait on
average up to 18 months before receiving government-funded treatments.
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spread youth’s opinions and ideas throughout the community.
On 20 November – the big day of CRC@25 – a celebratory
MAV one-minute
videos produced
by the youths were
premiered, and
Dr Maggie Koong
announced the
survey results on
Hong Kong children’s
right to play by
UNICEF Young
Envoys, both showed
that local youths are
facing excessive
academic pressure.
ceremony was held in Hong Kong, while UNICEF HK Ambassador
Trey Lee went especially to the United Nations General Assembly
in New York to attend the UNICEF global celebrations. There,
together with celebrities and children from around the world,
he took part in a musical performance of Imagine, John Lennon’s
iconic anthem of hope and peace.
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We, as adults, can’t influence youths to behave in ways our
knowledge and experience teach us. Most of the time, we need to
learn from youths to keep up with the times. The future of our world will
definitely belong to young people, and those who live like young people.
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To celebrate CRC@25, UNICEF HK introduced the One
Minutes Junior of UNICEF Headquarters to regenerate the
local initiative MAV, with international and local professional
trainers helping project the children’s voices.
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With support from renowned directors, Christopher Doyle, Adam Wong, Heiward Mak, Vincci Cheuk
and professional trainers, the 92 videos produced by local youths were put together into a one-hour
movie – A Minute In The Telling, Worth A Quarter For Listening. Celebrities, directors, journalists and
columnists in town showed up to support and filled all 138 seats at Cine MOKO on 15 December.
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On 29 December, another screening was held at the agnès b. CINEMA of
the Hong Kong Arts Centre. Families and friends of MAV youth participants
were invited to attend. Ng Tsz-yan, an MAV youth participant, was excited
to share with the audience about her video.
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CRC, and expressed
the public confidence
towards the CRC.
events and initiatives last year. In the summer, we held Believe In Zero,
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Hong Kong’s ratification of the convention. “Is
the world better for children?” and how can be the
world improved for them? The best answer lies in
the heart of every child.
Dr York Chow Yat-ngok
(left 3), Chairperson of
the Equal Opportunities
Commission, led
UNICEF HK Council
Members and youth
representatives in
singing Imagine,
becoming the first
local public figure
to participate in the
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Nearly 2,000 young artists aged under 12 gathered in Victoria Park
Transfer for Deprived Children project which subsidizes deprived rural families and
this January to compete in CCW’s eighth Little Artists Big Dreams
encourages them to receive vital maternal and newborn health care such as antenatal
Drawing Competition. Through their pictorial ‘Dreams for a Better
and postnatal check-ups, hospital delivery and infant immunization.
World’, they are realizing the spirit of children helping children and
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district of Nepal. They observed the positive outcomes of UNICEF’s
local education, water and sanitation programmes, including the
transformational power of footballs and toilets.
prematurity,
suffocation
and pneumonia
cultural tendency UNICEF established Girl Sports Clubs in child-friendly
schools. “It offers the girls training and opportunities to go out, compete
and build up their confidence. I was very impressed with these courageous
girls, who pursue changes in a society with deep-rooted gender
discrimination.” said Donor Dominic Hui.
Girls are also opting out of school in Nepal because as they enter puberty
they feel embarrassed by the common practice of defecating in public.
“Constructing toilets in the school will largely reduce the girls’ drop-out
rate, and in turn promote gender equality,” said Donor Fion Liu. Donor Angie Yeung and Justin Lau were deeply touched by this field visit
Besides the drawing competition, the Red Packet Sales was the very first time sponsored
China sees a yearly loss of almost 125,000 infants aged less than 28 days.
and signed up for UNICEF Charity Run 2014 to raise more money for
by Hip Sing Hong (Holdings) Company Limited, to encourage more members of the
Three leading causes of this are prematurity, suffocation and pneumonia.
children in need.
Together with HK$2 million donated by the Chow Tai Fook
public to contribute to CCW while celebrating the Chinese New Year. Charity sale was
While the rural newborn mortality is 2.4 times that of the cities, with
Jewellery Group Limited, the event successfully raised a total
held at selected MTR stations and shopping malls across community.
proper health care 75 per cent of the deaths would be preventable.
TO VIEW AWARD WINNING ARTWORKS
To combat the problem, in 2013 UNICEF HK launched the Cash Transfer
China Children’s Week
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OF SUPPORT FROM
For the third consecutive year, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited has supported Little Artists Big Dreams
Drawing Competition. As the major sponsor, the company tailor-made a limited edition Chow Tai Fook x UNICEF HK
925 silver badge in painting plate style and a 999.9 pure gold greeting card for charity sale purposes.
A small quantity of this limited edition silver badge is now available. Order your badge now!
(852) 2833 6139 Miss Karen Cheung, Fundraising Department
EVERY CHILD
for Deprived Children project targeting 15 provinces in Yunnan, Gansu
and Sichuan and benefiting 7,320 women and infants under 12
months old. In the past 22 years, UNICEF HK has accumulated a sum
of HK$100 million through CCW, greatly helping to improve the living
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you don’t know
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conditions of needy women and children.
Donate and support now
now:
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of HK$2.29 million. The full proceeds will fund our Cash
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of 12 including UNICEF HK donors visited Parsa, the Southern Terai
As traditional Nepali society favours boys over girls, to help change this
On the Mainland, maternity and under-five mortality remains staggering
as owing to the costs of living and transportation, free hospital delivery
and health services are still unaffordable for many poverty stricken farmers. Since 2013,
UNICEF HK has allocated the funds raised in the China Children’s Week (CCW) to improve the
health conditions of women and children in remote China. Funds raised through this year’s
Little Artists Big Dreams Drawing Competition will ensure safer deliveries for mothers and children in rural China.
are sending their best wishes to poverty stricken young people.
© UNICEF HK/2013
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the development and future of some Nepali girls. Last year, a team
EF HK/20
a brighter tomorrow
for children
A simple football and a basic toilet have had a direct impact on
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painting
Memories of a donor
visit to Nepal
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© UNICEF HK/2013
OF FOOTBALLS AND TOILETS
This is a household protection kit
containing protective gowns, gloves,
masks, soap, chlorine and a sprayer,
along with instructions on its use and
a medical bag for the safe disposal
of materials. UNICEF distributed
these kits in those countries hardest
hit by Ebola. The kit can help family
caregivers look after potential Ebola
sufferers with better protection
whilst keeping as safe as possible.
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2014 was a record year with a record
number of crises. The year started with
UNICEF’s ongoing responses to the
Philippines’ Typhoon Haiyan, alongside
the conflicts in Syria, South Sudan and
the Central African Republic. Together
with its partners, UNICEF’s humanitarian
efforts swung behind new crises
including, but not limited to, the conflicts
in Ukraine, Iraq and Gaza, and the Ebola
outbreak in West Africa. Millions of lives
have been torn apart.
begin to be accepted back into the community
At least 16,600 children have lost one or both parents, or their primary caregiver, in Guinea,
Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries hardest-hit by Ebola. UNICEF has taken
immediate action to save and protect these children. It has also engaged Ebola survivors
to help care for them.
Many survivors were driven away from their communities in the early days of the outbreak.
being quarantined for 21 days – the maximum incubation
Now, they are starting to be warmly welcomed back, due to repeated UNICEF assisted
period of the virus. “I want to ask all the organizations that
appeals on the radio and from house-to-house spreading the message that survivors indeed
are helping us not to forget these children.” Ms Komano said.
to school and counselling services. Over 97 per cent of
survived
affected children now receive care from extended family and
gave
care
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estimated to suffer severe
acute malnutrition in South
A study by UNICEF and partners found that almost three quarters of children
Sudan. In 2014, UNICEF and
living and/or working on the streets of Lebanon are from Syria. Over half are
partners provided therapeutic
aged between 10 and 14. Many of them beg, sell products on streets and some
feeding treatment to almost
even become involved in illicit activities.
100,000 severely malnourished
children, and we are aiming to
UNICEF and partners use animation to shed light on the plight of street
reach 137,000 children under
children. Mustafa, an 11-year-old Syrian boy, sells roses on the streets and
five suffering from severe acute
outside pubs to support his family in Syria. “Working on the street is very
malnutrition.
difficult… A drunk man once came out of the pub, and stabbed my arm with
UNICEF also urges warring
a knife,” Mustafa said.
Mustafa is now protected in a shelter for street children. UNICEF supports safe
reach a long-term settlement,
Child Friendly Spaces that house refugees and integrate the Syrian children
or else the food crisis will
with their Lebanese peers and community. UNICEF also continues to deliver
continue to deteriorate by the
life-saving immunizations, safe water and sanitation, and education.
end of the dry and lean season.
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community members.
to
UNICEF will continue to scale up efforts to prevent further
19-month-old Tamba whose mother
outbreaks, to halt the spread of the disease and support the
had died from Ebola. Tamba was
revitalization of basic social services.
EVERY CHILD
:The David Beckham
UNICEF FUND
supported nursery, Ebola survivor
Komano
seeing large number of people on the move in conflict areas because
At least 229,000 children are
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© UNICEF/NYHQ2014-1016/Jallanzo
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UNICEF encourages those who’ve
Rose
and slowing humanitarian access to those most in need. We are now
such as Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey or Egypt.
and support them with cash and material assistance, access
affected children. In a UNICEF-
The ongoing conflict in South Sudan is sharply reducing food supplies
Over 3 million refugees continue to be displaced in neighbouring countries
UNICEF has been working tirelessly to identify Ebola orphans
help
ON THE EDGE OF
NUTRITION catastrophe
It’s been four years since the start of the Syrian crisis, with no sign of it abating.
pose no harm or threat.
to
SOUTH SUDAN
of food shortages.
© UNICEF/NYHQ2015-0138/Naftalin
Ebola orphans and survivors
disease
on streets
groups to cease their fire and
GUINEA, LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE
the
Reports from the field
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© UNICEF/NYHQ2014-1365/El Baba
A DEVASTATING
year for children
Animate the lives of
Syrian child refugees
©UNICEF Lebanon
2014
LEBANON
BELIEVE IN ZERO
We are
READY!
Over the last three decades, UNICEF HK
has worked tirelessly to raise funds for
humanitarian action. In 2015, we will
not only support UNICEF’s unprecedented
To mark the 10th anniversary as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, David
appeal of HK$24 billion to give hope,
Beckham and UNICEF together launched 7: The David Beckham UNICEF
healing, education and protection to 62
Fund, named in honour of Beckham’s lucky number on his football shirts.
Across seven regions of the world, the fund will tackle seven urgent
priorities – child protection, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, health, education, social
inclusion, and water, sanitation and hygiene.
million children in 71 countries, but we are
also ready to commit Hong Kong staff to
UNICEF on the frontline and in emergency
zones, and to report back from the field
firsthand to the Hong Kong public.
“7 represents my ongoing commitment to helping children who need it
most around the world. This is me stepping up my support – because I
Donate and support now
can, because I want to, because the outcome will help change the lives
of millions of children.” said David Beckham.
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Advocacy &
At a glance
© UNICEF HK/2014
one week, and to help UNICEF contribute towards an ‘AIDS-free generation’
regulate formula milk nutritional and health claims
in support of an ‘AIDS-free generation’
On 23 November 2014, over 15,000 runners, the highest number ever, took
of HKSAR, attended to cheer on the runners. Around 50 commercial and
innovative designs of a truly inclusive playground that challenges and
Dr Patricia Ip, representing the UNICEF Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
part in the ninth UNICEF Charity Run. Funds raised also hit a record high of over
industrial leaders also showed their support for the event by participating in
caters for the needs of every child at their own developmental level,
Hong Kong Association, attended the Legco Panel on Food Safety and
HK$11 million, sufficient to provide over 690,000 children with HIV treatments for
the 3km Leadership Challenge Fun Run.
the Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF HK) has partnered
Environmental Hygiene on 10 February 2015. She urged the government
with organizations like the Playright Children’s Play Association to
to adopt a restrictive approach in the regulation of nutritional and health
co-organize the UNICEF Inclusive Play Space Design Ideas Competition.
claims on formula and prepackaged food products for infants and young
The winning designs will have a great chance to be implemented on the
children under the age of 36 months, and expressed that all nutrient claims
pilot site in Tuen Mun Park and will also be displayed in the competition
allowed for infant and young child foods should have high importance to the
exhibition that should be held in late 2015.
health of young children and have strict scientific proof.
are always the dream of teenagers. This year, the joint organizers
including UNICEF HK will bring forward the council meeting to be
In 2014, 69 Child Councilors moved motions drafted by themselves.
them as competent child rights advocates. To inspire their thoughts
comic strip Peanuts, donated his 65th
of United Nations’ sustainable development goals, Mr Gilbert Mo, the
birthday to support UNICEF HK’s I
At a roundtable discussion held on 20 January 2015 with over 30
Donate My Birthday, becoming the first
representatives from charities, foundations and corporate sectors, Ms Judy
cartoon character to participate in this
Chen, Chairman of UNICEF HK and Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF’s Representative
Honorary Council Member of UNICEF HK, has been invited to be the
guest speaker, introducing the relationships of energy and livelihood
and also the development of the country.
de
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other panel guests.
Snoopy, the famous pet dog in the
school students have been selected
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Councilors, and a Q&A session with Legislative Councillors and
LLC
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F HK
address the malnutrition issues in deprived urban areas.
programme. UNICEF HK has just begun a series of training, to equip
2015 is launched while 65 secondary
orl
Before putting to vote, they had an intense debate with other Child
the 2014/15 donations will go to health projects in Cambodia to
from over 500 applicants to join the
UNICEF Young Envoys Programme
© Pe anuts W
held in the third quarter – voice out for children earlier than ever!
inflight fundraising programme. An approximate HK$2.34 million of
© UNICEF HK/2015
the spirit of “children speaking for children”,
HK$13.1 million was raised in 2013 through our joint Change for Good
DONATED HIS
BIRTHDAY!
© UNICEF HK/2015
© UNICEF HK/2014
out for the issues they concerned, actualizing
With the unfailing support of Cathay Pacific and its passengers,
gear up to be
child rights advocates
for children earlier than ever!
To act as Legislative Councilors and voice
supports malnourished children in Cambodia
YOUNG ENVOYS
VOICE OUT
in 2015. The Honourable Mr John Tsang Chun-wah, the Financial Secretary
Change for Good
© UNICEF HK/2014
Regardless of their abilities, all children have the right to play. To collect
NICE
NEXT
PROTECT OUR
GENERATION;
UNICEF CHARITY RUN 2014
15,000 runners raised over HK$11 million
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design for all children
© UNICEF HK/2014
PLAYGROUND
© UNICEF HK/2014
© mary k. photography
education
Fundraising ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
Today’s
issues,
tomorrow’s needs
fundraising initiative. Over HK$100,000
to China, delivered a presentation on the challenges of fighting for children’s
was raised. The public celebrated by sending a ‘Bundle of Dreams’, including
welfare in China. They appeal leaders from many different sectors to join
exercise books and pencils, as a gift to children in need.
UNICEF in addressing children’s needs.
in Hong Kong for world children’s betterment
© UNICEF HK/2015
In January 2015, brought together by Gérard Bocquenet, the Geneva based Director of Private Fundraising
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and Partnerships, UNICEF world leaders from Asia Oceania region, including Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and
New Zealand gathered in Hong Kong to attend the Second Asia Oceania UNICEF National Committee Board
Orientation to review UNICEF’s work in 2014 and to discuss post-2015 agenda for world children.
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UNICEF LEADERS GATHERED
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LIFE-SAVING PROMISE,
remember children in your will
Your love for and commitment to the world’s children can live on. A gift in your
will is one of the most valuable and lasting ways to support UNICEF’s work. You
do not have to be wealthy to leave a legacy. A gift of any size will brighten the
lives of many children around the world for generations to come. For details,
please contact us at 2836 2951 or email joyce.kwan@unicef.org.hk
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 May is Labour Day. Youth
blogger Calvin wants to speak
up for millions of children who
are forced to work and are
deprived of their childhood.
STOPchild labour
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© UNICEF HK/2014
© UNICEF/NYHQ2014-0673/Nesbitt
Speak up
‘Change for Children’ Hotel Fundraising Programme
Hong Kong Hotels Association
By Calvin Chin, Voices of Youth blogger
In many places, children are required
industries. Out of these all, the most common child
There is no such thing as “fair” in child labour. Many
to work. Based on data of UNICEF, the
labour practice is to be found in agriculture.
children are forced to join because of poverty. Children are
International Labour Organization and
Change for Good Inflight Fundraising Programme
Cathay Pacific Airways Limited
“China’s Children: Today’s Issues, Tomorrow’s Needs”
Roundtable Discussion
J.P. Morgan Private Bank
paid low wages but have no other option as they have to
the World Bank indicate that 168 million
In Nepal, there’s girl called Maya Waiba. When
help their families. They cannot express dissatisfaction with
children aged 5 to 17 are engaged in
she was 10-year-old, with her family poor and
their jobs, fearing being easily replaced.
child labour. Some 150 million of these
desperate for money, she had little choice but to
are under the age of 14. work as a child labourer. A contractor told them
I think the only way to stop child labour is to alleviate
that Maya would get a decent salary. But in the
poverty, because even if a minimum wage were to be
There are many forms of child labour
end, she was forced to work 18 hours a day in a
introduced, working conditions would remain dreadful.
worldwide, for example in coal mining
carpet factory and was beaten frequently.
Children risk their lives to work for money. Orphans join
(from which some of us get electricity
ELEMENTS Fundraising Campaign
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Coffee Concepts (Hong Kong) Limited
Discovery Park – Shopping Centre
Hong Kong Public Library
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Sino Group of Hotels
Venture Photography Hong Kong
Mrs Libby Nelson
Field Visit to Nepal
UNICEF Nepal
Peter S.K. Poon
I Donate My Birthday
Harbour City
Little Artists Big Dreams Drawing Competition
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited
Robynn & Kendy
Antalis (Hong Kong) Limited
STAEDTLER (Hong Kong) Limited
School of Creativity
St John Ambulance
Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Red Packet Charity Sales
Hip Shing Hong (Holdings) Company Limited
Citywalk
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The Link Properties Limited
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wtc more
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UNICEF Charity Run 2014
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Hong Kong Disneyland Resort
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Tencent Foundation
Sun Life Financial
Asia Miles Limited
New World Development Company Limited
World Genius Corporate Ltd
Chiu Hing Construction & Transportation Co., Ltd
Mannings (Asia) Consultants Limited
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DHL Express Hong Kong
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Crocs Hong Kong
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Citybus Limited / New World First Bus Services Limited
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Ashurst Hong Kong
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Harley Owners Group
Scout Association of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Amateur Radio Association
Hong Kong Stretching Exercise Association
Miss Dorophy Tang
UNICEF Official WeChat Account
iTE Limited
WeChat Hong Kong Limited
UNICEF Young Envoys Programme 2015
AEON Credit Services (Asia) Company Limited
Mr Lai Yuk-kwong, Non-Executive Director, AEON Credit Service
(Asia) Company Limited
Dr Patricia Ip, Vice-Chairman, Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
Hong Kong Association
Dr Leung Wing-cheong, Vice-Chairman, Baby Friendly Hospital
Initiative Hong Kong Association
Dr Kwok Lai Yuk-ching, Associate Professor, Department of
Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Voices of Youth
Radio Television Hong Kong Radio 2
Young Post, South China Morning Post
PMM Media Limited
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programme
Lloyd’s Register Asia
Others
DLA Piper Hong Kong
Fruity Concepts Limited
armies for food or for the safety of their families. Most
today), manufacturing, domestic work,
Working in hazardous environments can cause
charities address solving poverty, since it is poverty that
agriculture, or even in war associated
illness, major injuries or even death.
leads to child labour, sickness and famine.
‘HONG KONG KIDS’
on-air?
Being told to host a radio programme with
things to say. I have to say, though, that the VOY
teenagers from Voices of Youth (VOY), my first
hosts have never displayed this simplistic attitude
reaction was “Seriously? I don’t want to babysit
when walking into the studio.
© RTHK 2014
By Ling Chi-wai, Host of ‘Ordinary Done Seriously’, RTHK Radio 2
‘Hong Kong Kids’!”
I do not know whether to laugh or cry remembering
‘Ordinary Done Seriously’ and the VOY hosts
Kity, Stephen and I have worked with VOY to
their polarized behaviours that they debate with
have been on an expedition to Indonesia,
host ‘Ordinary Done Seriously’ for nearly two
great passion in the RTHK lobby yet acting ever so
we’ve interviewed subdivided flat tenants
years. Getting to know the kids, we are pleasantly
shy in the studio when they first joined the show.
and reported on the Gala Premiere of
UNICEF HK movie, A Minute In The Telling,
surprised that they come fully prepared each time,
and we have not had to babysit them at all.
However, I could not help but be impressed by
Worth A Quarter For Listening.
their ability to learn. Once used to being on-air,
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ifva , Hong Kong Arts Centre
The One Minutes Junior
MOKO
Wasabi Creation Limited
Cine MOKO by UA Cinemas
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Next Mobile Limited
Young Post, South China Morning Post
Photoblog.hk
Nikon Hong Kong Limited
Manfrotto
apm
Times Square
Youth Square
Dr York Chow Yat-ngok, Chairperson, Equal Opportunities Commission
Christopher Doyle, Adam Wong, Heiward Mak, Vincci Cheuk,
Chris Schuepp, Judith Leysner, Vivian Lin Wenli, Harry Cheng,
Royce Cheng, SamAndy Cheung, Carol Chow, Terry Fung,
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A big day for world children
Local teens
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Painting a brighter
Celebration
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