• Social Mission

Active Global provides professional yet affordable homecare in Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong. We provide both private (out-of-pocket) home care and subsidized home care (under Social Security in Shanghai, under the Ministry of Health/ Agency for Integrated Care in Singapore). At Active Global, we are committed to 100% ethical recruiting. All foreign workers are recruited directly, and we systematically make sure they don’t have to pay to get a job. We have recruiting offices in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Philippines (through a partner), and Indonesia. This is to make sure we recruit the best talent in the field, without worrying about placement fees.

• Business Model

Services offered by Active Global Hong Kong: 1) Live-in Caregiver, foreign-trained nurses and caregivers to take care of elderly or patients at home for long term. These caregivers are ethically recruited from countries such as India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Most sustainable homecare option for most clients as the monthly salary for a caregiver typically ranges from HK$5,000 to HK$8,000. The client needs to pay a one-time setup fee. 2) Respite Nursing Care, suitable for patients who urgently need caregiving services for a short to medium. Services are provided by Hong Kong healthcare workers and nurses. Services are charged on a daily basis. 3) Home Dialysis, provides nursing supports for those with peritoneal dialysis at homes. 4) Caregiver Course, a Corporate Social Programme that offers a 5-month long weekend caregiving course catered mainly for Foreign Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong. Services offered by Active Global Singapore: 1) Live-in Caregiver 2) Subsidised Home Care (Subsidised) 3) Home Medical 4) Speech and Physio Therapist 5) Home Dialysis 6) Two Senior Care centres opening soon (Subsidised). Services offered by Active Global Shanghai: 1) Subsidized Home Care

• Founding Team

Founded in December of 2012, by Ms. Yorelle Kalika (ex-Boston Consulting Group Principal), Active Global set out on a mission to provide affordable home care services for elderly patients and their families.

• Social Impact

The social impact can be reflected in several perspectives. On the perspective of Patients & Families: Patients improved quality of life with a tailor-made approach for efficient recovery; Families gained peace of mind that their loved one is given the best possible care and able to age at home and stay with loved ones, even with severe medical conditions. In caregivers perspective, no agency fee means a higher net-pay of 25% to 40%; able to continuously support their family as well as save for their future, enhance their experience and skillsets in the process. For the society, reduced need for nursing home beds; reduced hospital re-admission; lower absence of family members at work; having a reliable and competent caregiver to care of elderly, other family carers can be freed up to earn for the family and improve the family financial situation. A cheaper alternative, saving up to half the amount compared to elderly homes.

• Proposed Project for Students 

– Study the possibility of cooperating with HK government to be able to deliver Subsidised services in HK in the areas of Home Care subsidized services, Senior Care Centres

– Study the possibility of strategic partnerships with Insurance companies, hospitals, and other potential key strategic partners

• Social Mission

Elite Thai Boxing and Fitness (ELITE) is a social enterprise established in May 2015 with vision to empower youths and mission to solve youth depression, suicide problems and social marginalization through Project 1.0: using Thai Boxing to empower underprivileged youths and as an alternative therapy to fight depression; and Project 2.0: constructing a digital platform with social enterprise network to facilitate meaningful social services as a holistic measure to fight depression

• Business Model

ELITE offers Thai Boxing and fitness classes to corporates, club members and working professionals at a market rate. Our main revenue stream is originated from class & training fees, event performances, and sales of equipment. We use over 20% of revenue to fund and support Elite Charitable Foundation (our s88 charity) in providing sponsored Thai boxing classes for diverse underprivileged groups, such as: 1) Boxing Class plus Empowerment program for at-risk youths; 2) Box-Off Depression Class for mental illness (depression) patients; 3) Self-Defense Class for underprivileged girls/women; 4) Golden Age Boxing Class for middle-aged to elderly/retirees; 5) Family Boxing Class for the low-income families.

To further resolve or prevent youth depression and its subsequent problems in Hong Kong, ELITE is developing a digital platform to extend our service to reach greater portions of youths. Utilizing our social enterprise network to provide more empowerment events and programs for the youths, with incentive and meaningful awards for participation, interest-based community hubs and crisis center for direct support from social workers. The digital platform is planned to generate revenue mainly via product placement fees and advertisers.

• Founding Team

Chen Wai Yui Anne, Wong Tak Shing Eden, Mok Wai Suet Sunny

• Social Impact

Our social enterprise is the only social enterprise in Hong Kong that uses Thai Boxing to empower youths. Since our establishment, we have help youths to fight addictions including drug addiction, stop fighting on the street, teaching them to fight in the ring with discipline; giving youths job opportunities and increase their social capital; training them to become assistant coaches to teach the mainstream. Empower youths to serve other underprivileged, e.g. In “Box off Depression 1.0”: 1) Provide opportunities for them to work as assistant coaches, who help depression patients fight off depression using Thai Boxing. Character building for the youths: 2) Enhance their perseverance, courage, discipline, positiveness, problem-solving skills, motivation to improve and the strength to overcome challenges.

To date, we have trained over 100 underprivileged youths, and some of them found a career in the sport and fitness industry. 10+ have qualified to become our assistant coaches, and we provided them with 200+ coaching hours with an hourly rate of HK$200.  1) Provided Box off depression classes for more than 90 depressed patients, with great positive feedback for improving their mental and physical situations. 2) Cooperated with 10+ NGOs/SEs to coordinate different types of Thai boxing classes for the underprivileged

• Proposed Project for Students

– Enhance business model and refine funding proposals

– UI/UX design and explore effective solutions for executing our Project 2.0 digital platform

– Conduct impact and effectiveness measurements for our projects

• Social mission

FOOD-CO works with like-minded partners to solicit resources for poverty alleviation. We cultivate a culture of save and share, with an aim to reducing food waste and creating a better living environment.

• Business model

Our strategy and operating model focus on the achievement of the ultimate goal of this engagement while delivering the four specific outcome objectives in measurable terms. We add value through enhancing delivery capability and providing capacity service and best practice (on the ground) knowledge to our partner agencies and other existing players. We help balance and utilize community and business resources through collaboration with our networks of corporate and individual donors and leveraging our engagement platform to reach all other like-minded partners. We establish wider cross-sector participation and collaboration through on the ground working relationships with existing players, mind-changing advocacy and promotion campaign to the public and strategic and policy communication with key stakeholders of the food support service.

• Founding Team

In order to expedite the implementation of the project, a project start-up program management team consists of all work-streams will kick-start the project. The start-up will be supported by an internal team from SJS. Information design and implementation will be overseen and managed by a dedicated IT team consist of both resources from SJS and TalkBox. The dedicated marketing team will be formed by SJS and CoDesign in designing the marketing plan to arouse public awareness.

• Social Impact

There are over 1,234,000 tons of food surplus is wasted every year, but around 970,000 Hong Kong People live below the poverty line every day. FOOD-CO aims at reducing food waste and creating a better living environment. After FOOD-CO launches for a year, the number of food support service points registered on FOOD-CO has increased from 161 prior to service commencement to 221, while more than 330 corporates and organizations offer support through food donations. FOOD-CO has received close to 200 tonnes of food of a total value of approximately HK$20 million and provided nearly 2.6 million sets of meals in total.

• Proposed project with students

-Exploring a business model for FOOD-CO to sustain.

-Enhancing the logistic procedure to complete the entire food donation process.

-Finding the source of the food waste and developing the mechanism to reduce waste at source.

• Social Mission 

Teach Unlimited Foundation (“TUF”) was founded in April 2011 by a group of local parents concerned about the quality of education for socially disadvantaged students in Hong Kong. The following shares its vision and mission: Every youth has a dream and can learn to realize it. To support the education and personal development of socially disadvantaged students through enhancing their learning attitude, motivation and self-esteem. To develop high calibre and socially conscious university graduates as role models and future leaders to advance the cause of quality education for all. To model an effective way of mentorship and promote its integration into youth education in HK.

• Business Model

1) We develop leaders: training high calibre graduates from local universities who are interested in education and service as our Program Mentors. 2) We mentor students: mentor, teach and empower students who are socially disadvantaged 3) We inspire communities: Partner Schools adopt TUF’s mentoring model and apply in their students to trigger positive change; Volunteers work with TUF to support students and be inspired by TUF’s way of working; Donors, who echo with TUF’s vision & mission, offer financial support to allow TUF to continue our program, to expand and benefit more people.

• Founding team

TUF was founded in April 2011 by a group of local parents. To ensure its work effectiveness, it is made up of the Board of Directors (BOD) and an operation team led by an Executive Director. The following provides an overview of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the BOD: Roger Ng, PhD, FHKITA, Chairman. Founder of TUF, leadership and membership in various industry/community services groups such as the HK Institute of Textile and Apparel, Rotary, political consultant of CPPCC (Pan Yu region). And Maria Lee Cheng, Vice Chairman. HR Manager, Director of the school management board.

• Social Impact

TUF has recruited 32 Program Mentors (university graduates) up until the 2017/2018 school year. Nearly all of the “graduated” Program Mentors (i.e. those who successfully completed the 2-year service term) stayed in education-related fields to continue and expand their contribution and impact.

• Proposed Project for Students

Embedded and sustained changes in students’ learning attitude, motivation and self-esteem.