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| The struggle to keep Bethune House running continues each year |
The annual fund-raising project for the Bethune House Migrant Women’s Refuge is set to be launched again this Sunday, Oct 12, 4-5pm at Li Hall of St. John’s Cathedral in Central.
This is the 14th year that the year-long fundraiser
for the charity group that provides shelter as well as legal and emotional support
for migrant women in distress, is being undertaken.
As before, individuals and migrant support
organizations are asked to help raise funds for the shelter by filling up cans
or other containers with the ‘Coins for Bethune’ logo, with coins or paper
bills, and then turning them over as soon as they are filled, or at the end of
the year-long campaign.
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| Basahin ang detalye! |
Small tokens of appreciation are handed out to
groups that raise the biggest amount of donation by the end of September each
year.
“Every
coin that you give helps migrants staying at the shelter who are jobless and
homeless!,” said Bethune House in its latest appeal for donations.
The registered charity which has been in existence for nearly four decades provides for the needs of about two dozen migrant women who stay in its two shelters in Sheung Wan and Jordan at any given time.
Last year, it successfully raised about $1 million to pay for its expenses for the year, after two funding grants meant to help provide for its upkeep failed to materialize as intended.
Bethune House executive director and founder Edwina Antonio had sounded out the appeal in the middle of the year, saying the shelter was in danger of closing down as it had only enough money to cover expenses for two months.
The $41,700 raised from the Coins for Bethune project for the year helped augment the funds that kept the shelter afloat. But each year, the struggle to help ensure the shelter keeps running, continues.
