Hong Kong-based GX Foundation sends medical teams to perform cataract surgery in developing countries from Djibouti to Laos, while China’s SOEs provide support for patients.

It is unclear when the event in Guangzhou can go ahead as organisers look at whether they can get a temporary permit to avoid falling foul of the law.

Readers discuss Hong Kong’s difficulty in retaining native English teachers, questions around how NGOs spend their money and using barges as a solution to the city’s housing woes.

She’s an entrepreneur behind two wellness brands, an NGO founder and the MD of a wealth management company while being a mother of three – so how does Belinda Koo do it all?

Task force recommends keeping in place controversial mechanism for deciding annual subsidies blamed for enriching top executives, but they will be required to disclose their pay.

David Begbie, director of Hong Kong-based non-profit Crossroads Foundation, talks about running refugee simulations at the World Economic Forum in Davos and having an epiphany in Macedonia.

Civil affairs ministry tells public to be alert for unregistered bodies trying to raise funds in the run-up to the party’s centenary later this year.

Out of work, short of money and unable to fly home, yet facing big hospital bills for giving birth in Hong Kong, pregnant domestic helpers find sanctuary in a shelter run by a charity.

A Hong Kong native who led Greenpeace China and WWF China, Lo Sze-ping looks back at 20 years of progress in China on environmental protection and conservation, and considers the huge challenges it still faces.

At the age of 37, Peter Leung had run out of hope. Homeless and destitute, he heard about ImpactHK, a Hong Kong charity helping vagrants, and suddenly he was given a second chance.

Children are incredible and resilient in ways adults can definitely learn from, but a little more parental interaction will go a long way to support them as they transition into the Covid-19 “new normal”.

Many of Hong Kong’s elderly people suffering loneliness were already getting insufficient social contact, but with the pandemic making things worse, charities are coming together to keep some of the city’s most vulnerable connected.

The Dialogue in the Dark Foundation aims to nurture role models and has helped 20 trainees since 2016.

Frederique Bedos’ NGO, Le Projet Imagine – The Humble Heroes, has made more than 30 films about people who’ve made a difference. In an era of fake news, she is seeking real heroes in Hong Kong and China whose stories she can tell.

Michael Spavor is the latest in a series of businessmen, aid workers and missionaries to run afoul of authorities in the tense border region

Charity food drive just one of 150 activities staged locally, as call made to boost local participation in such campaigns.

Study finds basic salaries for top executives at publicly funded social service groups were often higher than civil servants of the same rank.

Founded by American teenager Chance Wilson when he was just 14, WGI operates in seven countries to help improve English literacy among both the young and old

Swiss woman Katharina Zellweger, a Stanford visiting fellow and long-term Hong Kong resident, talks about her decades visiting the reclusive country, her new NGO and her North Korean poster collection

Abigail Anderson and ­Bingjie Turner lived in an orphanage in Qinghai run by a Hong Kong charity before being adopted. They returned to bring attention to those who aren’t adopted and who struggle when they leave the home