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 “Siu Lu”  "Ajay" **Since 1926, Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children has been striving to build a healthy, environment for the less fortunate children !. **  Children’s Residential Home  Children & Family Services Centre (Kowloon City)  Children & Family Services Centre (Sham Mong Districts)
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 * is a street sleeper who is autistic and mentally challenged… can she have a safe and happy home just like other other children his age ?**
 * follows his parents to migrate to Hong Kong from India at the age of 6. It was every different (the mode of living) the language spoke were also different.Will he every get use to his new life over here?. Who and will look after them ?.**
 * It also provides round-the-clock care services to over 100 children from 0 to 3 referred by Social Welfare Department, they are either abandoned by their parents, orphaned, or belong to families suffering with mental problems.**
 * at Ma Tau Chung commenced service since 2003,**
 * When it opened in December 2011 at Mongkok HQ had to provide assistance to less fortunate groups including single-parent, new arrivals and disabled families.**

to extend our care to more needy children and families, and to renovate or enlarge old facilities and centres


 * We rely on the fundraising committee and your passion to provide better quality help to needy children in Hong Kong.**

Volunteers Help Feed The Less Fortunate   Story Created: Jan 28, 2012 CST  Story Updated: Jan 28, 2012  Nearly two hundred volunteers spent the day preparing bags of food for the less fortunate. It's part of the feed my starving children program. Volunteers of all ages offered to lend a hand. "It's a great impact to see a child that has been malnourished and he's eating rice and you come back a month later and this kid is beaming and shining and really gaining weight." De Leon says it's especially magical when they are able to help those less fortunate right here in the community. "Yes we could go to Africa, Haiti or many places but our own border is suffering and all this food being packed stays in Laredo." Of the neighborhoods that receive these pre made meals, they deliver them to the colonias as well as across to residents in Nuevo Laredo. A volunteer with feed my starving children community says he knew he wanted to get involved when he heard just how many areas around the world are unable to enjoy life tot he full. "What I'm able to do with a group of people in a matter of a two hours is making a huge difference." Nearly two hundred volunteers took shifts all day and packed as many bags of food of two hours. In two hours they were able to supply sixty six kids with a meal a day for a whole year. " I cant get over we packed over 29,000 meals this shift ." Their goal for the day was to pack one hundred thousand meals. For more information you can visit www.fmsc.org.    =Child organizes fundraiser for less fortunate =

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sometimes laughter can go along was, like this child to see and act on what so many would rather walk by or pass off as someone else's responsibility. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> For six-year-old Abby McIntyre- Tsiang, all it took was "a look" of the plight of others to get the gears in her head turning, and eventually put her into action. <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> She was with her nanny at the time, watching television. "We were trying to get to the news, except we saw a little bit of people who didn't have enough food," McIntyre-Tsiang said of her first exposure to children in Africa suffering from starvation. Later, while walking downtown with her mother, Sarah Tsiang, McIntyre-Tsiang couldn't shake the idea of kids who are forced to go without. "Me and mommy were talking about that kind of thing, and then I said, ' Why don't we do an art show to help the people? ' " she said. It was then that her idea to fundraise for those less fortunate began to take place. McIntyre-Tsiang went right into The Rocking Horse toy store, where she'd been many times before. All on her own, she approached store owner Monica Brown. Upon hearing McIntyre- Tsiang's idea to create and sell artwork with all funds going to children in need, Brown was immediately on board. She decided to lend her space, time and even lemonade stand to the little girl with <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> the big heart  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> The six-year-old then began to think. Quick, funny and full of smiles, McIntyre- Tsiang had no problem coming up with a name and a theme for her event : Kids Art from the Heart. The event will take place on Saturday, Aug. 13 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Rocking Horse, at the corner of Princess and Montreal streets. From there, between her class of painting, McIntyre- Tsiang, with the help of her mother, contacted Doctors Without Borders to see if they would be willing to partner with her cause as the sole beneficiary. With all proceeds from her upcoming art show and sale going to their organization, Doctors Without Borders was more than happy to join the team. While McIntyre-Tsiang's artwork is to paint on canvas, she is expanding into painted flower pots for the show, she said. But it won't just be her artwork on display. McIntyre-Tsiang has also invited all of her friends to help in the event, and has pieces being sent in from as far away as Alberta and Michigan. Some local children have donated everything from photos to portraits. And it doesn't stop there. McIntyre-Tsiang is asking the children in the community to get involved, too. People can drop off their art work at The Rocking Horse before the show. McIntyre-Tsiang's mother beamed with pride as her daughter told her about the upcoming show. "I am so proud of her. She's always had a big heart ... And I love that she wanted to do something, and then she just did it," Tsiang said, her daughter smiling up at her. "I think it's very important for kids to know that they can change the world. And we've had so much local support ... it's an amazingly positive thing to have so many people i nvolved." Her reason for wanting the event to be a success is simple -- that simplicity you can only find sometimes, in the open heart and mind of a child. "It's important for other kids to get involved or else the children who don't have enough food might die," she said. "We should do what we can. " <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> **// What is // Warm The Children // ? //** Early in the fall (and into the winter) a newspaper starts its campaign by publishing articles and Â“house adsÂ” that describe the program and asks for community help....through generous donations, and shopper volunteers. At the same time, the newspaper rings local social service agencies and school to get information on needy families in the area. Once money is in place and volunteer shoppers and needy families are lined up, the sponsoring newspaper helps organise the shopping trips at local store (or stores). Families and volunteers meet at a store to shop for new winter clothing for the children in need, and the store gives the bills to the newspaperÂ’s ** Warm the Children ** program for all purchases (no money ever changes hands between shoppers, families and stores). As a show of support, local stores are asked to provide discounts to shoppers. **// Why would my newspaper want to be a // Warm The Children //sponsor?// **
 * Warm The Children ** is a program, given locally by a newspaper and, most often a charity organization partner, providing new winter clothing for needy children in the newspaperÂ’s hometown area.
 * // Quickly, in a nutshell, tell me how the // Warm The Children // program works. //**

Several reasons, not the least of which is the good will sponsorship brings. Publishers of lacal newspapers say the program builds trust in the local community toward the newspaper; employees feel their newspaper is doing a very unselfish thing helping their less off neighbors; volunteer shoppers like to know they are getting involved in helping their neighbours. Donors feel kindly toward the newspaper because it is making something really good happen in the community. Also donors like the idea that every penny of their donation will be used to buy new winter clothing for needy children in their town, ** and ** that nothing is taken off for Â‘administration. **// A // Warm The Children //program sounds like lots of work, and if thereÂ’s anything I donÂ’t need itÂ’s more work!// ** Sure, thereÂ’s some work involved but ** Warm The ChildrenÂ’s ** founder, a retired newspaper publisher, designed the program to provide clothes, food and loads other things for needy people who might otherwise do without, and to do this with the least amount of effort and cost (thereÂ’s hardly any). Sponsoring newspapers say if you follow the Warm The Children game plan the work is minimal Â– and if you donÂ’t (follow the game plan) it can be a lot of needless work. **// What does the Warm The Children organization do for my newspaper to make the program work? //**
 * Warm The Children Inc. ** (Mack and Natalie Stewart) provides everything a newspaper needs to make a successful program and continues, to serve as a resource.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"> SINCE his childhood it was drilled in Rishi Ramlagan that one should always be a happy giver and share whatever one has with those less fortunate. The music producer continues to follow the example set by his mother, who always went to homes to give food to the local people and gave charity wherever she could. He, however, tries especially to help the children because he believes they are the least fortunate among people in need. Ramlagan loves children and it hurts him when he knows that a child is suffering either because of **poverty, abuse or illness their parents cant afford to have treated.** Ramlagan is also very worried over who he gives money to because he is concerned that there are people who say they are collecting funds for local charities, but the money does not go to where it is supposed to. That is why **Ramlagan has decided to direct whatever funds a project he works on upon to go towards the Children's Life Fund endorsed by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.** "I am very cautious about charities and where I put my money or what I get involved in because there are too many dishonest people out there. I know the Children's Life Fund is safe and the way I am setting my end of things up, **there is no way anyone can take the funds that will be raised.**" An accounting firm will see what happens with the money raised through **the project, which is named, Music for Life.** I have also asked that the Ministry of Legal Affairs help in setting up the framework through which the funds will go directly to the Children's Life Fund with no chance of any money being moved elsewhere. I am even telling people the money does not even pass through me at all," Ramlagan said. Ramlagan who is also known as Snakeman in music circles began his production career building beats for hip-hop music back in 2002. He was at the time only doing this for the fun of it, but when recording engineer at the now defunct **Caribbean Sound Basin**, Sean Poland heard what Ramlagan was doing he took him under his wing to assist in developing his skills. Ramlagan was soon working at CSB doing some production and while there he met Corey "Coreysan" Wallace who is a famous musician and well known as the energetic bassist with rapso trio, 3Canal's band, Cut+Clear. Ramlagan and Wallace experimented with music together and then Ramlagan caught the attention of a great music producer, Carl "Beaver" Henderson who contracted him to build beats for a project at **Sony Records.** Since starting Mo'Times, Ramlagan has expanded his reach to producing, reggae, soca, R&B, pop and other genres. The first release out of Mo'Times was "Times so Hard" by local reggae artiste, Reuben. The song was a huge hit in South Africa and other places including the Cayman Islands, UK and Canada earning Ramlagan and Reuben royalties. The **Billboard Honorary Mention Award** was presented to Ramlagan and singer/songwriter, Victoria Trestrail for the song titled,"Steady Now." Two other songs they worked on, "Johnny's Fool" and "The Essentials", were used in an independent feature film series titled, THE LOUISE LOG. Other local artistes that Ramlagan is working with include; Hollo, Pternsky, Metric Man, Trakslasha, Nem Red, Krazy K. Foreign acts include female US rapper, Elee and Lady Lee. Less fortunate kids receive school supplies <span style="color: #999999; display: block; font-family: Arial,Georgia; font-size: 10px; text-align: left;">Published: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">
 * So what is the Music For Life project about?** Ramlagan owns a recording studio based in Barataria known as Mo'Times Productions that he started in 2006. Though not a household name here the studio has produced some famous artistes including one that won an award from the prestigious //**Billboard Magazine**//. His plan is to **produce music specifically to raise funds for the Music for Life project in which 100 percent goes to the Children's Life Fund.**
 * Music For Life is a label on the** **Mo'Times** **roster that is dedicated solely to recordings for the Children's Life Fund.** The first single that is being released from the label is, **"Pick The Mic Up",**by local artiste **Keno**. Ramlagan is seeking sponsor money to pay for the duplication, artwork, packaging and promotion of the CDs that will be sold in stores and

Alderman Jamieson Bahadur and Macoya/Trincity Councillor Ria Boodoo are joined by children from the Macoya/Trincity area. Twenty five underprivileged primary school children from the Macoya/Trincity area received school shoes, book bags and stationery among other supplies to get ready for the new school year. Councillor for Macoya/Trincity, Ria Boodoo, started a back to school party, called It’s All About The Kids, last week Wednesday at the Dinsley Evangelical Bible Church, Singh Street Extension, Dinsley Village, Tacarigua. The school’s effort saw a few sponsors including the National Self Help Commission, businesses in the St Augustine/Tunapuna area and a number of private individuals. Boodoo told the children: “Do not allow this financial situation which you are having today stop us from reaching our goals. Education and keeping faith in our God is the only way towards achieving a happy