china everbright limited sponsors and supports unicef charity run for 3 consecutive years
invited by unicef and on behalf of everbright charitable foundation, china everbright limited (“everbright”, stock code: 165.hk)’s executive director & ceo mr. chen shuang together with 4 colleagues participated in corporate relay (half marathon) at “unicef charity run” on 25 november. apart from corporate relay, around 30 staffs and their family members have joined the 10km challenge and 3km family run, spent an enjoyable weekend with their families in healthy exercise and contributed to charity event together, supported unicef’s work aiming to eliminate the mother-to-child transmission of hiv in developing countries.
since 2016, everbright have been sponsoring and supporting the unicef charity run for three consecutive years. a total of 31 corporations joined the corporate relay, including abc international, hang seng bank, sun hung kai properties, hkex, sino group, etc. everbright team get started at 6am and completed the 21km race by 1hour 41minutes, ranked 8th in the competition.
unicef charity run 2018 has successfully raised over hk$11 million from over 13,000 runners. the event 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$120 million to support unicef's “unite for children, unite against aids” global campaign.
as a china-background financial institution based in hong kong, everbright has always strived for serving the community through corporate social responsibility events. since the establishment of china everbright charitable foundation in 2008, it has sustainably sponsored a number of social service projects benefitting communities in hong kong and mainland china related to four main themes including “bright companion”, “vitality everbright”, “education support” and “art promotion”. regarding “vitality everbright”, everbright has an energetic corporate image through title sponsoring spartan race hong kong, supporting oxfam 100km trailwalker challenge, sowers action challenging and unicef charity run for several years, made substantial donations to numerous charity organisations.
