To address the environmental pressure and climate impact brought by this massive amount of food waste, the Bio-Loop Nature-based Food Waste Recycling Pilot Scheme is set to launch in April 2025. This forward-thinking initiative, led by A Plastic Ocean Foundation with funding from ZeShan Foundation, brings together Gaw Capital People’s Place and Lingnan University’s Science...
In 2024, Vessel REPAIR received funding from ZeShan Foundation to launch the “Electrical Appliances Second Life Workshop” programme, setting up a second repair station in Kowloon. With a pay-as-you-wish model, it aims to help local residents resolve issues with appliances, reduce the waste of electrical resources, and gradually change the consumer culture of discarding the...
‘Five Blessings’ is Hong Kong’s first professional life-death planning service. It was launched by OneTake ted jointly with two other local social enterprises, ‘ForeverGift.hk’ and ‘Minimal Funeral Limited’ To Know more, please go to link .
Since early 2024, MaD has been receiving funding from ZeShan Foundation and the Phillip K. H. Wong Foundation to launch the Social Prescribing Lab. This program tests how to alleviate loneliness in older adults through exploring community resources and linking them to individuals, going beyond conventional medically-driven frameworks. To Know more, please go to link...
In the remote villages of Okhaldhunga, Nepal, accessing clean water has become a daily struggle. Due to climate change and unplanned development, dwindling water sources have left many households without reliable access to safe drinking water. Women and children often have to walk every day to fetch water, placing a heavy burden on their health...
In January 2024, Community Care Plan Project has therefore been piloted to make a paradigm shift from professional dominance, strengthening community capacity to developing a more compassionate community, with funding support from ZeShan Foundation. We have formed a partnership team with Blessing Community and HomAge, which collaborates with district-based Time Bank members and our NGO...
In partnership with UNICEF, ZeShan Foundation recently donated to support these vulnerable and crisis-affected children with improved access to protection supplies, risk mitigation information, as well as timely and safe access to protection services. UNICEF team is providing support for promoting positive mental health and holistic well-being among vulnerable children and families. Prevention of violence,...
The Care Foord project, continuing onto its second phase this year, has received funding support from its strategic partners, Kerry Group and ZeShan Foundation, to popularise Care Food and promote exchanges in the food & beverage industry. The Working Group will strengthen community outreach and public education through workshops and exhibitions. It also hopes to...
Hepatitis is an epidemic of the poor: the absolute majority of chronic hepatitis B (96%) and hepatitis C (72%) cases are in low- and middle-income countries, and disproportionately in marginalised groups. It is a silent epidemic: the vast majority of those infected do not know they carry the virus and unwittingly pass it on; governments may be unaware of the impact; and there may be stigma given the transmission routes of hepatitis B (sexual) and hepatitis C (by unsafe drug injections). And so, in a world grappling with pressing crisis like wars, pandemics, and economic upheavals, it becomes what it is: a neglected epidemic.
