Sino Club party combines practicality, festive fun

It takes real vision and effort to arrange a party on the theme of love, joy and care and turn those ideas into immediate, tangible results. But that's what Sino Club did with its Love Christmas, Angels Sing event yesterday.

The club, a reward programme for customers of Sino Group businesses, set up the event at Skyline Tower in Kowloon Bay. Members had a chance to combine festive fun with workshops on recycling, and helping people learn how to tailor an eco-bag and handle food waste.

The centre of attention for the 200 participants was a novel Christmas garden made from almost 1,000 tins of food. Featuring Christmas trees big and small, the scene served as a reminder of those in need at this time.

As well as club members, participants included beneficiaries of Operation Santa Claus, the annual fundraising campaign organised by the and RTHK, as well as other NGOs Sino supports.

One of the local food banks that will deliver the cans to needy people is Foodlink Foundation, a beneficiary of this year's Operation Santa.

Other beneficiaries represented included Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre, Red Cross Margaret Trench School, Rainbow Project, Sowers Action, Diabetes Hong Kong and the Lions Kidney Educational Centre and Research Foundation.

Each of them received an angelic Christmas globe, which is a gift pack containing hand-made crystal angels and trees.