Social enterprise delivers a little hope to those with nothing
Through collecting unwanted furniture and appliances and redistributing them to the poor, Raymond Ho has witnessed Hong Kong’s huge inequality at first hand
When Raymond Ho Chun-wai delivered some furniture to a flat on Po Tin Estate, Tuen Mun, he was shocked as the door opened.
“There was literally no furniture in there. Just a few blankets on the floor, which the family sat and slept on,” Ho recalls.
The 300 sq ft apartment housed a couple, three kids and their grandmother.
Ho had brought them a sofa, a bed, a wardrobe, a table and chairs. Together with the family, they silently set everything up. When they were done, the grandma went up and hugged him. “She held me tight and cried.”
Ho, 52, is the founder of a social enterprise called Chu Kong Plan, meaning the light of dawn, which collects unwanted furniture and appliances to re-gift to those in need.