Community Services and Charity Work
Embracing the mission "From the community, To the community", Yeung has been actively involved in community services. He was the Charter President of “Lion Club of South Kowloon” in 1976. Under his leadership, the Group has established four foundations in order to coordinate charitable works. In early 2004, the Group set up the “Hong Kong Daily News Foundation” to leverage the media’s influence to attract more donations. In 2008, Yeung set up "Albert Yeung Sau Shing Charity Foundation" under his own name, which is dedicated to supporting non-profit sports, educational and cultural activities.
Yeung donated nearly 20 million dollars after the earthquake hit Sichuan in May 2008. To recognize Beijing Olympic gold medalists' contributions to sports development in China, he also awarded 12.6 million dollars to the 63 athletes.
The Jackie Chan and Albert Yeung Charity Foundation, founded by Chan and Yeung themselves, donated RMB 10 million dollars to the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the PRC as a special fund to support the relief efforts after the earthquake in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province in May 2008.
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Famous quotes containing the words charity work, community, services, charity and/or work:
“Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
—“Miss Clark,” U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)
“The people needed to be rehoused, but I feel disgusted and depressed when I see how they have done it. It did not suit the planners to think how they might deal with the community, or the individuals that made up the community. All they could think was, “Sweep it away!” The bureaucrats put their heads together, and if anyone had told them, “A community is people,” they would not have known what they were on about.”
—May Hobbs (b. 1938)
“I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“When a sparrow sips in the river, the water doesn’t recede. Giving charity does not deplete wealth. Saint Kabir says so.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.
“They that goe downe to ‘th sea in ships:
Their busines there to doo
In waters great. The Lords work see,
I’th deep his wonders too.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CVII (Bay Psalm Book)