To promote housing resilience with less-resourced communities of Kwai Chung, HKSKH Lady MacLehose Centre has taken on the endeavour since 2017 to enhance SDU residents’ home moving experiences, encourage their self-efficacy in problem-solving, and cultivate networks of mutual support. In late 2022, the same vision for housing resilience has got ZeShan Foundation on board as...
In Project Home Works: Ageing-in-Place (Pilot Phase) by Habitat for Humanity Hong Kong, the project team visited older adults to assess the safety and liveability of their home environment. After speaking with them, their carers and social workers, we discovered that despite similar layout and size of homes, elderly people face different challenges.
This was thanks to her joining the 1-year Kwai Tsing Community (KTC) Lifestyle Programme organized by Health In Action in 2021, which addressed the food and psychological needs of low-income families.
Since 2022, Zeshan Foundation has funded Christian Action’s Centre for Refugees (CRF), Hong Kong’s largest NGO programme.
I came to study in Hong Kong as an exchange student in 2021, and could not do much during my first academic year because of the COVID-19 restrictions. I thus wanted to start a social project to gain more experience, meet people, and help the community. I was also getting more familiar with the city...
Over a 10-month period, HandsOn Youth Leaders developed more than 200 volunteer activities —each one enabling other teens to volunteer their time and deepen their understanding of social needs in Hong Kong. These programs provided 1,221 individual opportunities for passionate young volunteers.
With these first fruits from the Geron-Infusion Education (GIE) projects, ZeShan Foundation further supports IAA(now known as Research Centre for Gerontology and Family Studies) to transform its website into Hong Kong’s first online knowledge hub dedicated to active ageing, with more interactive and user-friendly elements. It is one of our keen efforts to help different players disseminate useful results of researches, to promote news of GIE and inter-generational programmes and to engage more older adults for fostering active-ageing and intergenerational solidarity in Hong Kong.
Since 2021, ZeShan has supported HandsOn Hong Kong’s YOUTH EMPOWERED, a 10-month project focused on empowering Hong Kong youth to be active change-makers in serving the community.
Incubation programmes have blossomed in recent years, supporting myriads of passionate young people to generate social impact innovations. It is encouraging to see growing interests towards certain social topics but some topics seem to remain remote to young change-makers. “Access to legal support” is one of the examples. Given the nature and technical requirements of...
Recognising the growing demand for more personalised and preventive home support, ZeShan Foundation rolled out a new partnership with Habitat for Humanity Hong Kong in 2022. In this 10-month pilot project, 100 home assessments will be conducted for older adults, with recommendations for home improvements and essential modifications. More importantly, a new set of home...
