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David Ho

A CHARITY WALK FROM SCOTLAND TO HONG KONG

Content creator Kate Barr, known online as EduKate, is currently walking to Hong Kong all the way from Scotland in a feat of endurance aimed at raising £1 million (HK$10.5 million) for good causes.
Having started from the town of Dumfries on April 19, the former Hong Kong resident is making the vast majority of the 16,000km-plus journey on foot to raise funds for three Scottish mental-health charities: Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH), The Befriending Project and The Usual Place. She will be flying over Iran and Myanmar for safety reasons due to the ongoing conflicts in those places.
“I want people to realise that normal people can do extraordinary things,” Barr says of her ambitious undertaking.
She has a personal connection to each of the charities, picking SAMH after experiencing struggles with mental health and neurodiversity, and The Befriending Project because her mother worked there for more than two decades. The Usual Place was chosen for the support it has provided to her autistic sister.
Follow her progress on Instagram or support her campaign on the fundraising platform GiveStar
PRESERVING THE CULINARY HERITAGE OF MIGRANT COMMUNITIES

Founded in April 2025, 4home is an initiative led by Chinese International School students dedicated to fostering a sense of belonging to under-represented communities through food storytelling.
“We believe that the recipes carried across borders by these workers are a vital, yet often invisible, part of Hong Kong’s cultural fabric,” says Haru Kim, a Year 11 student and 4home co-founder. The group aims to do that by documenting personal food narratives on Instagram.
Beyond the digital, 4home has also hosted free cooking workshops for helpers and distributed more than 300 care kits in partnership with NGOs Help for Domestic Workers and Justice Centre Hong Kong. The group says its goal is to “create a pop-up kitchen that brings people together through shared meals and stories”.
Check the initiative’s Instagram or its website, 4homehk.com, for more information
HELPING THOSE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS GET FIT

In an ideal world, life-changing fitness activities would be accessible to all. Helping to address that issue is IncluFit. Founded in 2022, the Hong Kong NGO provides free group fitness classes in both Cantonese and English to people with a range of special needs, be it those with autism, in wheelchairs or the visually impaired.
Led by volunteer coaches, the classes cover everything from yoga and dance to Hyrox. The running club, meanwhile, pairs IncluFit guides with visually impaired runners. At the recent Cigna Healthcare Hyrox Hong Kong 2026, the NGO supported seven visually impaired athletes, with all of them completing the race. In August, they will send more athletes to compete in the Hyrox Shenzhen race.
Follow IncluFit’s inclusive efforts on Instagram or find out how to support via its website, inclufit.com
GIVING OUR FURRY FRIENDS A SECOND CHANCE

Volunteer-run Paws United Charity rescues abandoned, stray or otherwise vulnerable cats and dogs, with the goal of rehabilitating and rehoming them. This year, however, the non-profit announced that it had run out of funds needed to cover medical treatments for its furry charges. While the non-profit has trudged on, more help – be it in the form of funds, volunteers or donated items – would be welcome.
Check its Instagram to see the rescues or get involved via its website, pawsunited.org.hk


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A night charity running event co-organised by Inclufit and Wazup Running Club starting from Tai Ping Shan Street. Photo: Elson Li 

A still of content creator Kate Barr, known online as EduKate, on her Scotland to Hong Kong walk. Photo: @edukate___/ Instagram

Helpers take part in a 4home community cooking workshop. Photo: courtesy 4home

A night charity running event co-organised by Inclufit and Wazup Running Club starting from Tai Ping Shan Street. Photo: Elson Li

The Paws United Charity dog adoption centre in Repulse Bay. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

How Hong Kong’s all-female Renegades dragon-boating team is making waves

The Renegades, a Hong Kong-based all-women dragon-boat team, train at Stanley Main Beach. Photo: Alexander Mak

Roberta Di Fazio Camilleri, founder and captain of the Renegades. Photo: Alexander Mak

Members of the Renegades warm-up before heading out onto the water. Photo: Alexander Mak

A team training section off Stanley Main Beach. Photo: Alexander Mak

Team Renegades in action. Photo: Alexander Mak

Team members head to their boat for training. Photo: Alexander Mak

The Renegades on the podium after winning first place in the ladies’ category of the Stanley International Dragon Boat Championships, 2025. Photo: courtesy Renegades

Downtime on the beach. Photo: Alexander Mak

Team Renegades train twice a week on the water and once a week off. Photo: Alexander Mak

A group photo after a training session. Photo: Alexander Mak

Women who train together get calluses together. Photo: Alexander Mak

How wartime Hong Kong became a passion for historian and author Tony Banham

Hong Kong historian Tony Banham at the site of the West Brigade Headquarters in Wong Nai Chung Gap, Hong Kong. Photo: Alexander Mak

Tony Banham with his sisters, Clare (left) and Patty, 1962. Photo: courtesy Tony Banham

Banham (left) in a school play in 1975. Photo: courtesy Tony Banham

Banham’s pilots licence, air radio licence and log book. Photo: courtesy Tony Banham

Banham as a Shell employee in the Netherlands, in 1985. Photo: courtesy Tony Banham

Banham with his wife, Rowena, in New Zealand, in 1994. Photo: courtesy Tony Banham

Bullets, shells and casings that Banham collected as a child. Photo: courtesy Tony Banham

Banham (right) and fellow historian Ko Tim-keung, at the pillbox on station five of the Wong Nai Chung Gap Trail in Tai Tam, in 2006. Photo: Oliver Tsang

Banham (left) and then-Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau pay their respects to fallen soldiers at the Sai Wan War Cemetery, in 2016. Photo: Sam Tsang

Jane Houng on her dedication to women’s safety after the murder of her daughter

Jane Houng set up charity Becky’s Button to provide women at risk with a panic button after her daughter Rebecca Dykes was murdered in Lebanon in 2017. Photo: Bella Galliano-Hale

Houng with daughter Becky in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in 1992. Photo: courtesy Jane Houng

Becky on Lantau Peak, Hong Kong, in 2016. Photo: courtesy Jane Houng

Houng with daughter Harriet and her grandsons. Photo: courtesy Jane Houng

Jane with second husband Houng Wang-leung on their wedding day. Photo: courtesy Jane Houng

A portrait of Becky outside Beirut’s National Museum during a candlelight vigil to raise awareness about violence against women, on December 23, 2017. Photo: AFP

Becky’s Button is a small, lightweight and clippable panic button designed to have a noise level that can deter attackers, draw attention of passers-by and give the wearer precious seconds to escape. Photo: Facebook

Britain’s King Charles presents an Elizabeth Emblem award to Houng for Becky during the inaugural presentation ceremony at Windsor Castle in December 2024. Photo: Getty Images

Jeffrey Andrews turned a teenage arrest into a life of advocacy and change

Social worker, activist and former Legislative Council candidate Jeffrey Andrews poses for a portrait on the staircase of Chungking Mansions, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Photo: Eugene Chan

Baby Jeffrey Andrews with his mother, Nirmala. Photo: courtesy Jeffrey Andrews

Jeffrey Andrews with fellow social workers Fermi Wong (right), who helped him stay out of jail and inspired his career, and Ansah Malik. Photo: Edward Wong

Jeffrey Andrews (top right) always wanted to be a footballer. Photo: courtesy Jeffrey Andrews

Jeffrey Andrews and his wife Arianne are both fans of Manchester United. Photo: courtesy Jeffrey Andrews

Jeffrey Andrews leads a Christian Action tour of Chungking Mansions. Photo: courtesy Jeffrey Andrews

Meet the Reverend Will Newman, chaplain of Hong Kong’s St John’s Cathedral and Stanley Prison

The Reverend Will Newman, chaplain of Hong Kong’s St John’s Cathedral and priest-in-charge of St Stephen’s Chapel, in Hong Kong's Stanley district. Photo: Alexander Mak

Will Newman aged 11. Photo: courtesy Will Newman

Will Newman (centre) in Kashmir with his friend James and teaching colleague Margaret, in 1983. Photo: courtesy Will Newman

Will Newman with his wife, Theadora “Dot” Whittington, in 1991. Photo: courtesy Will Newman

Will Newman (far left) at the Stone Forest in Yunnan province with his teaching colleagues in 1987. Photo: courtesy Will Newman

Will Newman hiking in Hong Kong with his family. Photo: courtesy Will Newman

Will Newman in the 76-year-old St Stephen’s Chapel, Stanley. Photo: Alexander Mak

St Stephen’s Chapel is dedicated to the memory of those who suffered and died in Stanley during the second world war. Photo: Alexander Mak

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