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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts.
Hong Kong athletes also achieved excellent results at the Special Olympics Sweden Invitational Games 2020 in Ostersund.
Hong Kong Sports Institute Limited
The Hong Kong Sports Institute Limited is Hong Kong's elite sports training centre for the nurture of elite and potential athletes. It provides athletes with state-of-the-art facilities and comprehensive support, including scientific conditioning, sports science, sports medicine and dual career development in education and sports training. The Elite Training Programme supports athletes in 20 Tier A sports (athletics, badminton, billiard sports, cycling, equestrian, fencing, gymnastics, karatedo, rowing, rugby sevens, sailing, skating, squash, swimming, table tennis, tennis, tenpin bowling, triathlon, windsurfing and wushu) and six Tier A disability sports (boccia (physical disability), para badminton (physical disability), para table tennis (physical disability), wheelchair fencing (physical disability), para swimming (intellectual disability) and para table tennis (intellectual disability)). It also provides suitable support to athletes in 13 Tier B sports (contract bridge, dance sports, dragon boat, golf, judo, kart, lawn bowls, life saving, mountaineering, orienteering, roller sports, shuttlecock and taekwondo) and two Tier B physical disability sports (para lawn bowls and para tenpin bowling). Outstanding athletes whose sports fall outside these two tiers are covered under an Individual Athletes Support Scheme.
Hong Kong Youth Hostels Association
The Hong Kong Youth Hostels Association is a non-profit-making organisation providing safe, good quality and affordable hostel accommodation. It encourages young people to embrace nature through outdoor activities and appreciate different cultures via the hostelling experience and international exchange programmes.
The association plans, runs and markets seven youth hostels. It has more than 30,000 individual and corporate members, and is an affiliate of Hostelling International, which has over four million members worldwide.
The seven hostels each have different characteristics. The flagship is the YHA Mei Ho House Youth Hostel, which was transformed from a six-storey resettlement block in Shek Kip Mei that formed part of Hong Kong's first public housing.
The association's annual Ngong Ping Charity Walk, held in January in Lantau Island's Country Parks, attracted nearly 1,500 participants and raised much needed funds for hostel enhancement, environmental protection and conservation projects.
Outward Bound Hong Kong
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2020, Outward Bound Hong Kong (OBHK) is a non-profit organisation providing personal development programmes for people to learn essential life skills and reach their maximum potential. It is accredited by the Association for Experiential Education, and as part of Outward Bound International, OBHK benefits from the network of over 35 schools around the world.
OBHK's mission is to help people discover and develop their potential to care for themselves, others and the world around them through challenging experiences in unfamiliar settings.
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