Charity walk talk

The Sunshine Youth Fund organized a charity walk around Tai Shek Lake on 17 September. It was very hot on that day, but over two hundred people came and joined the event. We raised $120,700. The money will go to Project Oasis in Malaysia, which will help provide clean water for some faraway villages. The people in those villages will have a stable water supply from now on.

In some faraway villages in Malaysia, women and girls are tasked with gathering water from faraway springs, rivers, and ponds. On average, they walk over an hour each time, often through forests and over mountains.

Mesalech, her husband, four of their sons, and their one granddaughter live in a village. Every day, Mesalech's granddaughter gathers water at the spring half a mile from her home. At eight years old, she carries one gallon (¼ÓÂØ) each time she travels to the spring, and she journeys to the spring three times before the sun goes down.

“I want my granddaughter to get educated,” Mesalech said. “I want there to be safe water in my village.”

When you give safe water, you give children the opportunity to go to school.

The top donations and the lucky draw results are as follows:

Top donations

1st

Mr.  K.  C. Tung  $28,000

2nd

Sanki Electronic Company  $13,000

3rd

Mrs. Beatrice Zhou

$10,000

Charity lucky draw winners

First prize                            Winners

40-inch LCD TV                    Chau Lai Yuk

Second prize

A vacation to Malaysia               Tyler Li

Third prize

Washer and dryer                      Elizabeth Ng

Other prizes

Supermarket coupons (ÓÅ»Ýȯ)       Kevin Smith

                                                 Choi Fung

Thank you for your kind support. See you next March.