Tag: Fifth-term

Fifth-term Commission on Poverty convenes fifth meeting and observes operations of School-based After School Care Service Scheme (with photos/videos) ******************************************************************************************      The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Chan Kwok-ki, today (March 14) chaired the fifth meeting of the fifth-term Commission on Poverty (CoP) and led members to visit a school participating in the School-based After School Care Service Scheme to observe its operations.      At the meeting, the CoP approved funding under the Community Care Fund for launching three additional three-year Community Living Room projects, in To Kwa Wan, Hung Hom and Nam Cheong respectively, under the Pilot ... Read more

Fifth-term Commission on Poverty convenes second meeting ********************************************************      The fifth-term Commission on Poverty (CoP) convened the second meeting this afternoon (June 16).      At the meeting, members were briefed on the implementation progress of the strategy of targeted poverty alleviation. Members noted that after multidimensional analyses of different socio-economic characteristics of household groups, the Government has initially identified certain groups for targeted poverty alleviation, namely households residing in subdivided units (SDUs), single-parent households and elderly households. The Government is preparing various targeted poverty alleviation projects to cater for the needs of these groups, and will implement them ... Read more