We are assisting at least 60 families every month, and providing monthly assistance of HK$2000-$5000 for each family according to their situation. More families will receive assistance in the future.
We maintain close contact with the families in need through the social workers from Hong Kong Family Welfare Society and Society for Community Organization.
Social workers will reassess the latest economic situation of each family every three months and arrange the next period of payment.
The median of monthly household household income in the third quarter of 2020 has shown a downward trend compared with that of the third quarter of 2019. Last year, Hong Kong's economy was deeply affected by COVID-19 pendemic. The reduction of income of the middle and lower classes was relatively greater, resulting in a rising poverty figure. It is foreseeable that by the time the government releases the poverty report for 2020, there will be a record high in number of people living in poverty.
Therefore, we focus on helping families in crisis. These families who have been hovering between the middle and lower class and the poverty line are helplessly set back by the epidemic and are stuck in a financial quagmire. The "Yi Shan Emergency Fund" plans to help the families in need of financial support. We provide monthly assistance of HKD $2,000 to HKD $5,000 to each eligible family to help them with the necessary daily expenses and tide over the crisis.
We believe that many families are experiencing different difficulties, ranging from financial difficulties, health status, physical disabilities, family relations or emotional distress, and there are numerous families in Hong Kong suffering from these hurdles. If you are working in the field of social work and have engaged with these families, we hope that you can contact us so we could a helping hand together.
