‘We love to make the world a better place’: Hong Kong youngsters collect toys for sick and disadvantaged kids
Terminal illness of a family friend inspires sisters aged six and eight to launch the Little Philanthropist
A group of Hong Kong schoolchildren have collected more than 10,000 toys for charities supporting the city’s disadvantaged children and cancer patients.
Supporters of non-profit organisation Little Philanthropist went door to door this summer as they asked toy companies to donate.
The organisation was founded by eight-year-old Jeorge Petris and her six-year-old sister, Samantha. The Sai Kung Central Lee Siu Yam Memorial School pupils were inspired to help some of Hong Kong’s more vulnerable residents after volunteering for the China Coast Community, a charity that supports English-speaking elderly people in Hong Kong, with their mother Julie.
When a close family friend was diagnosed with terminal cancer, the girls felt instinctively keen to help cancer sufferers, as well as children less fortunate than themselves.
We are going to take toys to kids in hospital. We hope it will make them smile
Now the sisters, along with 13 other child ambassadors, are preparing to donate and sell the toys they’ve collected at an event at Hang Hau Space on September 24.