World Vision Hong Kong supported 7 ADPs to improve the livelihoods of children and their families, and encouraged their active participation in the process of building a sustainable community.

Health

• Educated more than 26,800 mothers on water, sanitation, hygiene and diarrhoea management, as well as promoting hygiene and behaviour change through community-based sanitation awareness campaigns, which benefitted about 23,100 participants.
• Provided training on nutrition for parents and caregivers, helping over 4,700 under-five children recover from malnutrition.

• Organised children’s groups for more than 23,800 children to learn essential skills and child rights, and exchange ideas.
• Trained over 7,300 parents on positive parenting, which helps them care for their children better and improve parent-child relationships.

• Organised summer camps to educate over 23,100 children on moral values such as respecting elders, obeying parents and caring for others.
• More than 10,200 children completed the activity-based Life Skills Education for Transformation programme, where they learned about interpersonal relationship, effective communication, goal setting, leadership, decision making and problem solving and other skills to overcome challenges in real life.

• Provided training for more than 1,400 farmers and helped them adopt soil and water conservation practice to obtain sustainable harvest.

• Educated about 4,200 children, youth and caregivers on HIV and drug abuse prevention, and provided support for about 8,270 people living with HIV.
• Referred about 4,600 presumptive tuberculosis cases for diagnosis test and conducted follow up visits to more than 2,000 tuberculosis patients on treatment.

• Provided monthly growth monitoring services for about 8,900 children under 2 and referred those who were malnourished for treatment.
• Educated about 8,500 adolescents on health and menstrual hygiene through community activities.

• Helped improve the learning motivation and capacity of over 3,300 out-of-school children in slums through 75 remedial education centres, which enabled them to re-enrol in formal education or attend vocational training instead of working as child labourers.

• Provided dry ration kits, household kits, water and sanitation kits and shelter kits for more than 4,200 flood-affected families to meet their urgent needs.

• Trained about 2,300 farmers on advanced agriculture techniques to increase yielding and conserve resources.
• Supported about 380 farmers with high quality seeds and bio fertiliser.