HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 16 October 2025 - Embarking the 75th anniversary of World Vision International, World Vision Hong Kong hosted World Vision Day on 11 October, 2025 (Saturday) at the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups Building in Quarry Bay. Themed "Light On, Hope Ahead", World Vision Day featured sponsor sharing, thanksgiving ceremony, thematic talks and booth games, which successfully showcased our global achievements especially in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and health and nutrition. The event welcomed partners from almost 300 organisations and units. Centered around the theme "Light On, Hope Ahead", World Vision Day highlighted how partners joined hands with World Vision to bring transformation and new hope to vulnerable children and their communities. The opening ceremony was officiated by Andrew Morley, President and CEO of World Vision International, and Amy Fung, the Chief Executive Officer of World Vision Hong Kong. Long-term sponsor Stephen Chan and artists who have witnessed World Vision's work — Priscilla Wong, Michelle Wai, director Benny Lau and his family, and music producer Cedric Chan — attended and shared valuable reflections. Stephen Chan engaged in a heartfelt conversation with Andrew Morley about the tangible impact of the Child Sponsorship Programme, and the passion and motivation behind World Vision's 75 years of work on global poverty. Andrew Morley reiterated that urgent humanitarian needs have rocketed almost 10 times from 3 crises annually 15 years ago to 33 crises today, but international humanitarian funding remains critically insufficient, posing immense challenges for frontline relief efforts. He recalled he met an 8-year-old girl, Esther, living between southern Kenya and the border of northern Tanzania, whose parents sold her for marriage to an old man in exchange for six cows because the family was starving. Being abused by her husband, Esther escaped and failed. After a few attempts, she went to World Vision's local office. Eventually she was adopted by foster parents and enrolled into a local school — an outcome made possible by the support of World Vision's child sponsorship programme. Andrew Morley said he was impressed by her smile and the thankfulness in her eyes. As a child sponsor of 6 children, Andrew Morley said every donation had the power to help vulnerable children like Esther transform their lives. "If you think what you are doing isn't making any difference, just remember Esther," he added. Andrew Morley also thanked Hong Kong people and partners. "To everyone, corporate partners, schools, hospitals, child sponsors, and to those who raise money for us, and those who pray for us, for all of you I would like to say thank you," he said. To honour their long-standing efforts in providing vital assistance and igniting hope of vulnerable communities, certificates of appreciation and plagues were presented to partners from nearly 300 organisations and units, and commemorative pins were awarded to donors showing more than 20 years of support. Kenny, a child sponsor supporting World Vision for 12 years, recalled visiting his sponsored daughter in Bangladesh during a once‑in‑a‑century cyclone. Despite the devastation and the clean-up at home, she insisted on keeping their meeting, and Kenny felt deeply moved. "We often think donating money for a child's education is the best option," he reflected. "But if the community doesn't have a school, the child still has no way to study even when there is adequate funding. It's something I only came to understand after becoming a child sponsor." During the event, a live band made up of students from Ma On Shan Tsung Tsin Secondary School that participated in World Vision's "Joint Secondary School Famine", performed two record hits - "Amani" and "We Are One". The golden hit "Amani" was written by the well-known local band Beyond after joining World Vision's trip to Kenya in 1991, while "We Are One" was the theme song created for "30-Hour Famine" by another local band RubberBand, following their visit to Zimbabwe. Both songs conveyed messages of hope for world peace and solidarity. The event was further uplifted when 24 children of Benji's Choir with speech impairments performed "This Little Light of Mine", a song World Vision's founder Dr. Bob Pierce taught children in Xiamen in 1947. World Vision has been actively promoting the concept of legacy giving, which enables donors to bring long-term change to the fragile communities through early planning of personal assets. A seminar was co-hosted with "ForeverGift.hk" on 3 Instruments of Peace on World Vision Day, where a practicing lawyer explained the importance of making a will and enduring power of attorney, as well as making advance medical...