ArtWalk 2008 Benefiting Charity

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The 2008 benefiting charity will again be the Society for Community Organization (SoCO) - who received HK$539,000 from last year’s ArtWalk.

SoCO is a non-profit community charitable organisation formed in 1972 that believes in equal opportunity of participation and fair distribution of social resources to be the foundation of human rights.

SoCO is active in lobbying for an improvement in the lives of the 1.3 million Hong Kong people (including 370,000 children) who live below the poverty line - predominantly comprising the elderly, low-income single people and families and recent immigrants from China not eligible for government subsidies and accommodation.

SoCO undertakes activities for children and low-income groups; advocacy programmes; and, has initiated mutual self-help groups (e.g. the Elderly Rights League; New Immigrants’ Mutual Aid Association; Childrens’ Rights Association etc) and is involved in action to highlight inequity and demand government policy changes by initiating and undertaking original social policy research and taking an active advocacy role with Hong Kong decision-making bodies.

As part of ArtWalk Extra, a life-size photograph installation of a cage home will be on display at Schoeni Art Gallery (Gallery 2) at 27 Hollywood Road. SoCO estimates that 120,000 people in Hong Kong live in inadequate accommodation in cage homes, cubicles or small partitioned flats.

Society for Community Organization (SoCO) 
3/F, 52 Princess Margaret Road, Homantin, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2713 9165 
Email: soco@pacific.net.hk 
Website: www.soco.org.hk

Click here to download SoCO’s donation form


Demonstration to the Housing Department to call for rehousing	Community learning centre for the underprivileged