Peace is more than the absence of war. For a child, peace means someone answers when they call, a safe place to sleep, room to play, and an adult who stays. We are building those conditions for children in Hong Kong, one step at a time.
Every figure below has a public source. We believe being clear about the size of the problem matters more than talking about ourselves.
Source：Census & Statistics Department poverty data (2023), via SoCO Children’s Rights report, 2025
Source：Census & Statistics Department, 2021 Population Census
Source：Social Welfare Department figures, 2024
Source：CUHK Faculty of Medicine population survey, 2019–2023
Three areas, shaped by the WHO Nurturing Care Framework — because a child needs more than any one thing to grow well.
Developmental assessment, parenting education and home-based training for children aged 0–3 from low-income families — helping children grow up healthy in love and care, and laying the foundation for future learning.
Safe, inspiring play and learning spaces where children develop their potential, confidence and social skills through varied activities — learning happily and growing well.
Parent groups, sharing sessions and individual consultations that help parents relieve stress, connect and grow — walking with their children through challenges to build a harmonious family.
Method matters more than mission statements. These three are our floor.
Play is not a break from learning — it is how young children learn. Play sits at the centre of everything we run, and we will not turn learning into another source of pressure.
No child exists in isolation. Supporting a caregiver’s wellbeing and confidence is often more effective than working with the child alone.
We will not build a centre and wait for people to come to us. Services have to reach the streets where families actually live.
These are representative situations compiled from published research to illustrate the problems we want to address. They are not real cases and describe no real child.
In this environment a child rarely gets to do the kind of play that needs space to spread out — building, puzzles, large drawings. Those are exactly the activities that develop fine motor skills, spatial reasoning and sustained attention. The problem is not that parents do not care; there is physically no room. This is what our Play & Learning Spaces work is for.
Social Welfare Department figures for 2024 put the average wait for a Special Child Care Centre place at 19.1 months. For a three-year-old, eighteen months is half a lifetime. Families are frequently left without any support during that wait. We do not aim to replace professional services — we want to fill part of that gap with things a family can practise at home while they wait.
Parenting advice usually assumes the parent has time and energy. When someone is working two jobs, parenting alone and chronically short of sleep, "spend more time with your child" just adds another layer of guilt. Our Caregiver Companionship work starts from the opposite end: hold the adult first, and the child benefits.
We will begin in the districts with the highest rates of child poverty. Tap a marker to see the situation in each.
We are a brand-new organisation with no track record to show. So we offer promises instead — published each year, for you to hold us to.
From our first financial year: what came in, where it went, what is left — all published.
We aim to keep administration and fundraising under 10% of total expenditure, and will publish the actual figure each year.
We will not describe planned work as delivered, or imply approvals we have not received.
We are just beginning. A donation, an hour of volunteering, professional advice, or simply telling one more person — all of it matters at this stage.
