Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) participated in the Employee Volunteer Week 2010, a campaign organised by Community Business, a Hong Kong-based non-profit organisation, to encourage more companies in the city to embrace employee volunteering for the benefit of both the community and the companies involved.

 

HKEx’s Employee Volunteer Week 2010 activities

After the securities market close yesterday (Wednesday), HKEx Chief Executive Charles Li joined other Board members to lead senior executives and other volunteers from HKEx in selling rice packets at HKEx’s Trading Hall and offices to support the Oxfam Rice Sale Fundraising Campaign, which helps fight poverty in the Mainland.  A total of $88,320 was raised, comprising $58,320 from the rice sale and $30,000 donated by HKEx.

 

HKEx also donated 3.88 tonnes (3,880 kilograms) of rice to the People’s Food Bank of the St. James’ Settlement.  HKEx’s volunteers today (Thursday) helped to pack the rice for distribution to more than 1,300 underprivileged people in Hong Kong. HKEx volunteers also presented gift packs with healthy rice dumplings to the elderly at the Kindness Centre of the People’s Food Bank in Shek Kip Mei.

 

HKEx’s participation in Employee Volunteer Week 2010 is in line with its Corporate Social Responsibility Vision to be a responsible corporate citizen and to promote the development of socially responsible practices in its marketplace and community.

  

  

HKEx Chief Executive Charles Li (standing, eighth from left) and other Board members, senior executives and volunteers from HKEx meet at the Trading Hall to support the Oxfam Rice Sale Fundraising Campaign.  

 

 

 

HKEx volunteers help pack 3.88 tonnes of rice the company donated to the People’s Food Bank of the St. James’ Settlement, which helps underprivileged people in Hong Kong. 

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