Hong Kong's Operation Santa Claus grows from Christmas donations into community engine
⏮ BeforeA quirky holiday fundraiser with small, one-off grants.
✅ NowA long-running community charity that counts former recipients among its staff.
In short
- Operation Santa Claus began as a Christmas donation drive in Hong Kong and has run for nearly four decades.
- Over time it has become what the source calls an engine for community change.
- Former beneficiary Rachel Chow Chiu-yan later joined the charity after first learning of it as a student.
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The charity once gave money to groups that used it as seed funding for their own work. Some past beneficiaries now run or work for the organisation that helped them. The source text is short, so the scale of current giving is not stated here.
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From South China Morning Post
Over nearly four decades, Operation Santa Claus (OSC) has grown from a quirky holiday fundraiser into an “engine” for community change in Hong Kong. For some beneficiaries, the journey was a full circle. Rachel Chow Chiu-yan learned about the fundraising drive in Young Post when she was a student, later pitched for funds on behalf of a group helping teenage girls and later joined the charity. “Ten to 20 years ago, Operation Santa Claus disbursed some funding to charities that saw it as seed...
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