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The list of Charitable Fund-raising Activities from October to November 2005 issued with Public Subscription Permit (PSP) (other than those for relieving South Asia earthquake victims)can be downloaded here.

The list of Charitable Fund-raising Activities from October to November 2005 for relieving South Asia earthquake victims issued with Public Subscription Permit (PSP) can be downloaded here.

You can also click here  to make use of the Electronic Service Delivery (ESD) with search function for more information on approved fund-raising activities.

The list of Flag Day Organisers from April 2005 to March 2006 can be downloaded here.

You can also click hereto make use of the Electronic Service Delivery (ESD) with search function for more information on flag day.

The Social Welfare Department (SWD) invited related professionals and district personnel to join a two-day training programme on understanding of family violence.

To enhance the community’s understanding and awareness of family violence, the SWD has commissioned the Hong Kong University Family Institute (HKUFI) and Sau Po Centre on Ageing to conduct a territory-wide Training Programme on Understanding of Family Violence named as . These training classes will be conducted in Tai Po, Tuen Mun, Kwun Tong, Wan Chai, Yuen Long, Tsuen Wan, Sha Tin and Yau Ma Tai from November 26, 2005 to January 26, 2006.

The training will provide more than 2400 places for related professionals and district personnel, including social workers, clinical psychologists, police officers, teachers, doctors, staff of Housing Department, District Council members, etc.

Through the training on the characteristics of different types of family violence, the handling procedures, related legislations etc., the programme aims to facilitate the frontline professionals and district personnel to identify family violence at an early stage and refer needy families to the appropriate services.  The training content includes understanding on child abuse, spouse battering, elder abuse, gender sensitivity, the legal provisions on family violence, multi-disciplinary collaboration and district co-ordination.

The speakers of the training programme include social workers, clinical psychologist, paediatrician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, police officers, public prosecutors and academics.

The training will be conducted in Chinese, aided with English.  An attendance certificate and CD ROM on the training content will be issued to all participants.  Dates and venues of the training programmes are as follows:

Classes	Dates	Districts	Places
1.	26/11/05 (Sat) 03/12/05 (Sat)	Tai Po	Tai Po Civic Centre - Auditorium
2.	30/11/05 (Wed) 07/12/05 (Wed)	Tuen Mun	Yan Oi Tong Jockey Club Community & Sports Centre - Hall
3.	15/12/05 (Thurs) 16/12/05 (Fri)	Kwun Tong	Christian Family Service Centre - Auditorium
4.	19/12/05 (Mon) 21/12/05 (Wed)	Wan Chai	Leighton Hill Community Hall - Hall
5.	10/01/06 (Tue) 11/01/06 (Wed)	Yuen Long	Yuen Long Theatre - Auditorium
6.	12/01/06  (Thurs) 26/01/06 (Thurs)	Tsuen Wan	Princess Alexandra Community Centre - Hall
7.	19/01/06 (Thurs) 20/01/06 (Fri)	Sha Tin	Sha Tin Town Hall - Cultural Activities Hall
8.	24/01/06 (Tue) 25/01/06 (Wed)	Yau Ma Tei	Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong (Kowloon Centre) - Hall

A new batch of community-based support projects for people with disabilities and their families has been launched on 1 October 2005 for a period of 3 years.  The objectives of these projects are to strengthen the carers’ caring capacity, relieve their stress and to provide people with disabilities and their families a better quality of life. 

The new batch of projects includes i) Holiday Care Service ; ii) Family-based Respite Service ; iii) Day Care Service for Severely Disabled Persons ; iv) Personal Development Programme ; v) Specialized Programmes for Persons with Autism and Mentally Handicapped Persons with Challenging Behaviors ; vi) Home Care Service ; vii) Support Scheme for  Newly Blind Persons and viii) Home-based Rehabilitation Training Service.

Please click here for information of the service brief and list of service units

The Social Welfare Department plans to commission NGOs to provide intensive employment assistance including basic skills and skills upgrading training to CSSA single parents/child carers in form of IEAPs. In view of the strong support from NGOs, it has been decided that those operating agencies running the first batch of IEAPs are also eligible to make application for funding support to run the 18-month trial projects, ND IEAPs, from April 2006 to September 2007.

Applicant NGOs interested in seeking funding support for running ND IEAPs are invited to attend a briefing session to be held on 4.11.2005 to understand more about the IEAPs before sending in their proposals.  The closing date for submission of applications will be extended to 3 December 2005 (at 12:00 noon).

For details of the briefing session and application for funding the ND IEAPs, please click here:
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To be eligible to submit an application, the applicant should be an IEAP Operating Agency.

To download the ND IEAP Application Form, please click here:
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Please also read Important Notes to Applicant Organisations before completing the Application Form:
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Please see below the number of ND IEAPs required in each SWD district.
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“Hong Kong Invitational Mural Design Competition” has been launched since December 2004.  There are 56 groups/organisations invited to design 42 pieces of mural paintings in all districts of Hong Kong.  With the effort of all parties, all murals have been completed in September 2005 and the adjudication work is now underway.