{"id":777011589,"date":"2023-12-01T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777011589"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:05:14","slug":"hkjc-launches-education-fund-to-support-reintegration-of-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/hkjc-launches-education-fund-to-support-reintegration-of-prisoners","title":{"rendered":"HKJC launches education fund to support reintegration of prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The HKJC Charities Trust has established the Education Fund for Rehabilitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Hong Kong.- The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) Charities Trust <\/strong>has allocated HK$43m to launch the Jockey Club Education Fund for Rehabilitation. This initiative encourages people in custody to pursue education and skill development. The fund will cover tuition fees for in-person courses at Ethics College and the procurement of interactive classroom tools, live broadcasting facilities, tablets and computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These resources are intended to enhance the teaching and learning at correctional institutions and facilitate ‘ participation in locally accredited post-secondary education programmes and professional qualification courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Club steward\u00a0Bernard Chan<\/strong>, alongside HKSAR government undersecretary for security\u00a0Michael Cheuk<\/strong>, commissioner of correctional services\u00a0Wong Kwok-hing<\/strong> and other dignitaries, attended the opening ceremony of Ethics College on November 30.\u00a0Chan expressed the club’s aspiration for the donation to empower people seeking further education, enabling smoother societal integration, life reconstruction, and future contributions to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also: <\/strong>HKJC creates equine school partnership with Guangdong Vocational Institute of Sport<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A week ago, a home for sick children<\/a> opened following a HKJC Charities Trust donation of HK$390m in 2018. The RMHC (Kwun Tong House) Jockey Club Building near Hong Kong Children\u2019s Hospital will house children grappling with severe illnesses and parents and siblings. It has 66 family rooms, nearly tripling the size of a comparable facility in Sha Tin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The HKJC Charities Trust has established the Education Fund for Rehabilitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":10260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has launched the HK$43m Jockey Club Education Fund for Rehabilitation, aimed at supporting education and skill development for individuals in custody. This initiative, which includes funding for Ethics College and interactive learning tools, underscores the Trust's commitment to societal reintegration. Concurrently, the Trust previously allocated HK$390m for a new facility for sick children, further demonstrating its significant philanthropic capital deployment.","focusai_entities":"Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Ethics College, Bernard Chan, Michael Cheuk, Wong Kwok-hing, RMHC (Kwun Tong House) Jockey Club Building, Hong Kong Children\u2019s Hospital, Guangdong Vocational Institute of Sport","focusai_location":"Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Kwun Tong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.75), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"HKJC CSR Strategy","query":"How do the HKJC Charities Trust's recent donations align with the broader corporate social responsibility strategy of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, particularly concerning its social license to operate within the iGaming and racing sectors?"},{"label":"Funding Impact Analysis","query":"What are the projected long-term societal and reputational impacts of the HK$43m Education Fund for Rehabilitation and the HK$390m children's home donation on the Hong Kong Jockey Club's stakeholder relations and public perception?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[22317],"class_list":["post-777011589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-social-news","tag-hong-kong-jockey-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777011589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777011592,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011589\/revisions\/777011592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777011589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777011589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777011589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}