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Monday, December 17, 1973
GRANTS TO WELFARE ORGANISATIONS
Grants totalling almost $1.5 million have been made available
to 42 voluntary welfare organisations from the Sir Robert Ho Tung
Charitable Fund.
The grants were recently approved by the Governor and bring
the total amount allocated from the fund for this year to about $2,7 million,
!
In the latest allocation, the Pok Oi Hospital in Yuen Long
received the biggest grant of $300,000 which will be used in a programme
to improve medical facilities and staff quarters at the hospital.
Among other large grants were $158,000 for the Rennie's Mill
Student Aid Project for the construction of a new dormitory at the Tung
Wan School on Lantau Island; and three separate grants of $100,000 each
for the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, the Caritas medical centre in
Kowloon and the Hong Kong Arts Festival Society.
The Sir Robert Ho Tung Charitable Fund was established in 1956′
with a bequest of $500,000 from the late Sir Robert Ho Tung to make funds
available for organisations involved in welfare, education and medical
fields.
The first grants from the income of the fund were made in 1960
and since then many charities have benefited from it.
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