Charity project in China helps bridge divide between Hong Kong youth and mainland
While building real bridges in Chinese villages, Wu Zhi Qiao connects young Hongkongers with the mainland on another, more important level
“Even if you can live up to 100 years old, you only have 10 decades in your whole life, it’s only as many as that,” Leonie Ki Man-fung said to me when she gave me a book she had edited titled How Many 10 Years One Can Have.
Ki, a familiar figure among Hong Kong’s women business leaders, had asked me to take a look at the book when I had the time, which I finally managed to do during the Christmas break.
Upon finishing it, I found myself reflecting on the meaning of the word “bridge” – it’s what the book is all about.
Ki is an advertising professional turned successful business executive, and has been involved in many kinds of public service and charity work over the decades.
The book highlights the 10 years spent on one particular project among many others she helped develop – the Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) Charitable Foundation, which sponsors and encourages Hong Kong youth to engage in building real bridges in remote Chinese villages while promoting the concept of “people as bridges”.
