Hong Kong star athletes donate Covid-19 supplies in ‘Share For Good’ campaign as city battles rising demands
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Top Hong Kong athletes are leading the drive in donating vital anti-pandemic resources to local hospitals as the city continues its battle with the fifth Covid-19 wave.
Snooker player Ng On-yee, badminton player Tse Ying-suet, table tennis player Minnie Soo Wai-yam, vault gymnast Stone Shek Wai-hung, retired Para sprinter So Wa-wai, and more joined New World Development’s newly launched “Share For Good” campaign.
Touted as the city’s “first large-scale crowd donation platform”, the initiative intends to alleviate the rising demand for supplies amid an increase in self-quarantines at home, and provide help for underprivileged communities.
Partnering with Yan Chai Hospital, more than 30 non-profits, and delivery company Lalamove, organisers matchmake donors with beneficiaries in a donate-and-deliver process.
New World kicked things off with a donation of 200,000 items with all logistical costs bankrolled by those involved, according to an official press release.
Upon consulting target beneficiaries, organisers compiled a list of the 13 “most-needed items”, including rapid antigen test kits, oximeters, SIM cards, supermarket and fast food vouchers, face shields, and more.