everbright charitable foundation title sponsors lifeline express's fund raising gala dinner for 3 consecutive years
on 10 october 2014, china everbright charitable foundation has title sponsored and jointly held the “lifeline express everbright gala dinner”, a charity fund raising event at the grand hyatt hotel for 3 consecutive years. during the event, dr. liu jun handed over a cheque for hk$1 million to lifeline express on behalf of china everbright charitable foundation to support the work of the lifeline express hospital eye-trains.
lifeline express
the lifeline express hospital eye-train first embarked on its mission to provide free operations and treatment to the underprivileged cataract sufferers in china in july 1997. over the past 17 years, the hospital eye-trains have helped restore vision to more than 150,000 cataract patients in china by offering them free operations on the trains. lifeline express has also established training centres for ophthalmology microsurgery and cataract treatment centres in the rural areas of mainland china. moreover, lifeline express has introduced an international examination and other learning opportunities for the eye doctors in china, so as to improve their level of knowledge and enhance to a higher level.
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everbright charitable foundation
since 2009, the everbright charitable foundation has sustainably sponsored a number of social service projects including: “the everbright project”, jointly launched with caritas family crisis support centre to provide community services targeting hong kong’s middle class; “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” organised 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, as well as many other charity programmes.
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