Past Events

Organized by Changing Young Lives Foundation, the “Slam Dunk Challenge 20th Anniversary Kick-off Ceremony” was held at iSQUARE on 22nd Oct, 2017. The ceremony was honoured to have The Hon. Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, Chief Secretary for Administration as guest of honour and delivered the opening speech. The organizer has also invited basketball lover Hubert Wu as the performing guest, together with The Hon. Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, Chief Secretary for Administration, Mrs. Sheilah Chatjaval, Council Chairman of the Foundation, Mrs Yvette Ma Ho, Vice Council Chairman of the Foundation, and program sponsors Mr. Michael Wu and Mr. Jonathan Tung of J.A.M. United to officially kick-off the 20th anniversary of “Slam Dunk Challenge” by shooting the mini basketballs into a giant basket.

In June, along with Studio 83 and CYLF Young Ambassadors, we paid visit to 4 project schools in Gansu province, China and brightened up 600 left-behind children’s summer with arts and basketball.

“Festival of Trees Charity Luncheon 2017” was held at Nicholini’s, Conrad Hong Kong on 15 May 2017, Monday. This year, the event was dedicated to raising fund for supporting the “Art to Heart Expressive Arts Therapy Program” that provides mental well-being enhancement support to hundreds of emotionally at-risk youth in Hong Kong.

We also took the opportunity to present the inaugural Civic Leadership Award to honour two distinguished social leaders - Dr. Eleanor Wong, OBE, DSSc, JP, a renowned philanthropist and Mr. Ronnie Cheng, Headmaster of the Diocesan Boys’ School ( Primary Section ) for their outstanding contribution in children and youth welfare over the years. By launching the CYLF Civic Leadership Award, we envision to engage more social innovators to join hands to strive for the welfare of underprivileged children and young people in Hong Kong and to accentuate the importance of civic engagement and leadership in children’s causes.

11 game booths were designed and hosted by CYLF Young Ambassadors. There were nearly 80 children members joined the event on that day and many nice prizes were being given to our children members! We would like to thank the Young Ambassadors for their enthusiasm, dedication and support to make the event successful.

We have joined the Caring Company Partnership Expo for the first time and we are excited to know many corporates would like to bring positive changes to the underprivileged children and youngsters together with us! We would like to thank our long-term partners who have come to visit us and we also look forward to building many more valuable partnerships in the near future.

Inviting our neighbors, members and their families to celebrate our Center's 10th anniversary with talent shows, free booth games and gifts. We were honored to have our ambassador Ms Yvette Kong, volunteers from QBE and Hong Kong Scottish RFC! We promise to continue serving the underprivileged children and young people in the next 10 years to come.

Joined by some of the most generous and philanthropic guests in town, our annual fundraising Gala Dinner helped raised funds to support our 100% free of charge social services. We were honored to have ambassador Ms Yvette Kong, Ms Elise Liu and Ms Linda Wong to perform and would like to express our heartfelt thanks to our Committee and volunteers for making the night a success.

Volunteers from our "Young Friends" program has visited one of our project schools in Qinghai and initiated fun and educational classes and workshops to the students. It was a unique experience for both the students and our volunteers.