Crossroads – Volunteers needed

Ladies Circle and Crossroads have a long standing relationship with our ladies volunteering over many years. We have a regular group of ladies who try to meet up at Crossroads as often as possible on a Tuesday or Wednesday. This often leads to 4-5 ladies working in the stationery Department each week. We run a car pool system for those who wish to come and help out.

The job entails both unpacking donated items and packing up orders for many different countries around the world. Many developing countries need supplies for schools,education and industry, others may need help following natural disasters.

I would like to appeal to any ladies who would like to volunteer to let us know. This does not have to be regular. It can be a one off just to see Crossroads itself, which is well worth the visit; or you are welcome to let us know if you are free to come along any week.

 ** Next week URGENT help is needed. ** We have a big order in for Uganda needed before CNY. We would welcome a few extra pair of hands. If any one is interested to come for a one off or to see for yourself the volunteer opportunity with Crossroads, please let us you know as would be very welcome.

Please email hklccommunity@gmail.com or hklctreasurer@gmail.com if you are available to come.

Looking back on the last few months ….

As Christmas and the New Year draw nearer, it is nice to look back and be grateful for what we have been able to achieve as a group in the last few short months ….

Since September 2011 …

 * Funds raised for Small Group Homes to date *

$28,858

* Highly successful voting for $100,000 proceeds from Pedal Kart Race 2010 *

All seven charities received a donation

* Christmas paper packing for The Duchess of Kent Hospital *

1200 sheets

* Jenny Dev’s Drop-In in aid of Hong Kong Cancer Research raised *

$1600

* Two evenings packing/checking boxes for Box of Hope *

132 Boxes

* Cake stall at The Duchess of Kent Fair raised *

approx. $9000

* Gi Gi Hill talked to us about the 24 hour relay race that

she and West Island School were to run to raise funds for

“Running to Stop Traffik”

That evening LCHK raised *

$2170

* Christmas card packing and envelope sorting for The Duchess of Kent Hospital *

2670 Cards

2000 Envelopes

* Raffle, after Jason Wordie’s talk, for his nominated charity

Sir Lindsay and Lady Ride Memorial Fund, raised *

£3700

* Helen Hazell’s Mahjong Evening raised *

£250

* Clothing bought from Society for the Relief of Disabled Children

$2300

 delivered to Christian Action’s Chungking Service Centre

for refugees and asylum seekers *

75 items of warm clothing

This is an amazing achievement in such a short space of time.

Very many thanks for all your help and support.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.

Duchess of Kent Cheque Presentation

On Wednesday 14th December, a great evening was enjoyed by over 150 staff and volunteers from the Duchess Of Kent Children’s Hospital, Sandy Bay, Pokfulam.

Thank you from Box of Hope

We are pleased to share this message from the Box of Hope team:

                   Dear Friends,

We just wanted to thank you all so much for giving up your time this year to help with Box of Hope.  
We have received, checked, packed and sent 12, 659 boxes to children in need across Asia in the last two weeks!  
That is more than double last year.
None of this would have been possible without your help. 
So Thank you
We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas knowing you have made so many children so happy!
Best wishesThe Box of Hope Team

Two teams of our ladies helped check, sort and repack a number of the collected boxes. Thank you for your time and effort. It is heartening to know so many children will benefit from this years appeal.

Have you got your Christmas Cards and Christmas Wrap yet?

Box Of Hope Second Packing night a great success!

The second box-packing night for Box Of Hope ended up being an incredibly productive night with 67 additional boxes wrapped and packed for the Box of Hope charity drive. Soft toys, matchbox cars, planes, jewelry, headbands, toothbrushes, soaps, pens, felt tips, colouring pencils, books, drawing books, jigsaws and a variety of other toys were sorted and collated into each box.

This adds to the previous 66 boxes done at the packing event in July meaning Hong Kong Ladies Circlers have contributed 133 boxes to this cause. Well done Ladies!!

Ladies Circlers will also be helping check boxes during the afternoon on the 21st and 22nd November at the Central offices before they are distributed. If you are interested in helping, please let us know.

Community News: Hong Kong Ladies Circle contribute $2170 to “Running to STOP the Traffik”

At the November meeting earlier this month Gi Gi Hill came along to talk to us about a 24 hour relay event happening in Hong Kong on the 26th and 27th November that she and her school, West Island School, are participating in.

The mission statement for this cause is to raise awareness and funds to fight human trafficking around the world through endurance running.

Ladies from Hong Kong Ladies Circle were able to place donations in a charity box to sponsor Gi Gi and her team in the event. At the end of the night they had contributed $2170 to the cause.

Well done ladies and a huge thanks to Gi Gi for giving an informative presentation before the dinner.

Box of Hope – Second Wrapping Night

Community Update

Box of Hope Wrapping Packing Night

A group of our ladies wrapped and packed a total of 65 boxes for Boxes for Hope…and there’s more to come! Thank you to Angela for hosting in your lovely house and providing us with wine to keep the wrapping going! Fantastic result!

These boxes will be gifted to underprivileged children both locally and within Asia by the Box of Hope charity project.