ceo of china everbright limited, chen shuang participates in “the 11th unicef charity run”

invited by unicef and on behalf of everbright charitable foundation, china everbright limited (“cel”, stock code: 165.hk) ’s ceo mr. chen shuang participated in “unicef charity run” for the second time and successfully finished the 3km leadership challenge run on 19 march 2017 (the event was postponed due to adverse weather in last november). to support this charity event, everbright charitable foundation has also made a donation to the unicef, supported unicef’s work aiming to eliminate the mother-to-child transmission of hiv in developing countries.
 
the 11th unicef charity run has successfully raised over hk$11 million from over 14,000 runners. unicef charity run was organized by the hong kong committee for unicef (unicef hk) for 11 years. it is not only an annual flagship fundraising event for unicef hk, but also the second largest long-distance running event in hong kong. since 2006, the event has attracted over 100,000 participants and donors' generous contributions for more than hk$100 million to support unicef's “unite for children, unite against aids” global campaign.
 
cel is a corporation committed to corporate social responsibility and fully supports some long-term charity projects which are beneficial to hong kong communities. they include, to be the title-sponsor of the collaboration project with endeavour education trust – the “china everbright voice of the stars story-telling scheme”, aiming to cultivate a better understanding and greater awareness of chinese history among the young people in hong kong; sponsored a mainland china study tour for hong kong teachers orgainsed by hong kong federation of education workers for four consecutive years; and as a long term and important supporting organisation of lifeline express. moreover, cel management and staff have entered teams in the “sower action challenging – charity hiking” for four consecutive years and won the “gold award in corporate participation”, raised money for the children in the rural regions in mainland china. cel’s ceo chen shuang led a team in the 2016 oxfam trailwalker, they managed to complete a 100km hiking trail and raised a fund of hkd 300,000, actively supported various kinds of charity events.







about everbright charitable foundation
since 2009, the china everbright charitable foundation (“cecf”) has sustainably sponsored a number of social service projects including: title-sponsored the "china everbright voice of the stars story-telling scheme", to help cultivate a better understanding and greater awareness of chinese history among hong kong’s young people; jointly launched “the everbright project” with caritas family crisis support centre to provide community services targeting hong kong’s middle class, advocate an attitude of life –“making life simple” ; “project companion – professional social workers in greater china scheme”, jointly established with social workers across borders to train professional social workers in the mainland; “everbright teachers’ heritage discovery tour” organized by hong kong federation of education workers to provide hong kong teachers travelling opportunities to the mainland china cities for experiencing and learning china culture and history; over the past couple of years, cecf has also formed a close partnership with lifeline express, becoming one of its largest funding sources to help cure cataract patients in poverty-stricken areas in the mainland. for details, please visit: