26 Mar 2023 | Thrive Hong Kong was so lucky to have the support from the Hong Kong Champion football club, Kitchee Sports Club! 2 professional soccer players, Clement and Ellison shared their insightful personal stories as a professional soccer player with our students. Clement and Ellison also taught our students to do simple football and physical trainings. Some of our students were very interested to become a professional soccer player!

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Special thanks to @212studio.venue as our venue sponsor!

26 Feb 2023 | We are happy to share with you about the start of our "Thrive Hong Kong Personal Development Pilot Program". Medical - dental professional was our first theme. Our new students have learned new vocabulary such as dental hygienist, dental floss, etc. from our English teacher, Ms. MayMay and international volunteers. They have also invented their new tastes of toothpaste, ice-cream, potato chips, Indian spicy, etc. What taste will you chose?

**Special thanks to 212 studio as our venue sponsor and providing a comfortable learning environment for our students!

18 November 2022 | Thank you to Mr. Donald Tse, Chairman and Executive Director of Hong Fook Tong Group Holdings Limited, and Mr. Dennis Tang, founder of BLW network, for being our honorable advisors. With their rich life experience and wisdom, they will surely help our organization to realize our vision more effectively - to help more grassroots children and youths to become confident, positive, and willing to give back to the society as future leaders!

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17 September 2022 l Thanks to our impact partner Stella Blu Textile. Our students had a great time during the visit. The children were very interested in visiting the studio.
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17th July 2022 l Thank you to our guest teacher Sylvia (Fashion Designer) and English teacher Ms. MayMay for the 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 and 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 lessons. This lesson inspired our students to design with creativity. Also, thanks for the contributions of our volunteers, and Thrive Hong Kong Ambassador team for making the lesson a 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬!

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13 June 2022 | Thank you for Global Networking G100's invitation. Our founder, Ms. Polly Chan will share her career and life journey including her story on founding Thrive Hong Kong at 9pm on 13 June.

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25 May 2022 | 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝟑𝟎𝟎 + 3 days to go!

Thanks again to running coach Tom Rico for organizing a multisports fundraising event for Thrive Hong Kong - Project 300 Plus. Tom is ready for circling 300 km around Hong Kong by running, cycling, and trail running from 28 May to 29 May. Are you willing to support him?

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4 May 2022 | Thank you to our guest teacher Matthew (Robotic developer) and English teacher Ms. Chin for the 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 and 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 lessons. It was a valuable experience for our students to control a robotic arm online. Also, thanks for the contributions of our volunteers, and Thrive Hong Kong Ambassador team for making the lesson a 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬!

Our heartfelt thanks to our sponsor, UNITEK.HongKong Unitek.Hong Kong for making it possible!

12 April 2022 | Thrive Hong Kong 3rd personal Development Program Experience Day is now recruiting students!

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Registration link：

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Thanks again for our program sponsor UNITEK Hong Kong to make this happen.

11, 12 & 17 Dec 2021 | Many thanks to Hong Kong Private Equity Finance Association and Sofe Coffee for supporting Thrive Hong Kong and the valuable opportunities for sharing our initiatives on their Xmas gathering and their pop up store at New Town Plaza respectively.   

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9 & 14 Jul 2021 | July was indeed a magical month here at Thrive Hong Kong. The hard work of our ambassadors paid off! “Dreams Thrive” was finally launched to record the personal transformation journeys of them. Thank you to our donors – Mr. Kenneth Wong, Past District Governor of Rotary International district 3450 and our ambassadors who had also co-funded for the book printing cost.

22 May 2021 | Our Thrive Hong Kong Ambassadors love art. Imagine the surprise when we got to visit Art Basel 2021 with 'Internship For Good' employer - Ms. Helen.

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17 Oct 2020 | Our heartfelt thanks to all the donors, Impact Partners, dedicated volunteers, our Ambassadors, founder of our mother program- Stichting IMC Weekendschool, our Dutch alumni and founder of our sister school in Malaysia-We Can Academy.

Together, we inspire and empower more grassroots children and youth to Thrive!

Dec 2019 | To express our gratitude to our donors, Thrive Hong Kong Ambassadors including Hailey, Jims and Katrina and some other volunteers have carefully curated 800 pieces of yummy hand-made cookies, Joanna has hand painted 16-themed Thrive Hong Kong postcards and Danby has kindly donated his books to support our 1st fund-raising event.

5 Mar 2023 | Thank you for our guest teachers, Dr. Wong, Dr. Chan, Dr. Lin & Dr. Szeto for sharing their insightful personal stories as a Dentist with our students. Our students also got the valuable opportunity to visit Dr. Wong & Dr. Lin's clinic and experienced to be a dentist or nurse. It was really an inspiring and unforgettable experience for our students!

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Sharing from one of our students, "After today's visit, I know that the future is full of possibilities. I am also possible to become a trained dentist!"

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9 January 2023 | From Feb to May, 2023, 8 lessons in total, including Technology, Medical, Performance Arts, Cookery & Gratitude. Guest teachers from different professions & international volunteers are invited to share their personal stories and experience with our students .

Please refer to the program poster and leaflet for more details, eligible students could apply through, https://forms.office.com/r/eUJC1Uk1Qt

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15 October 2022 l We were glad to invite the graduates who had participated in the program led by our founders Polly and Lilian to join the reunion day on 14th October. They are college students and newcomers to the workplace now who are once again learning together in Thrive Hong Kong. We hope to invite more alumni to participate in future events and give back to the community.

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5 September 2022 l Thrive Hong Kong Career Exploration Workshop - Baristas is now recuiting!

Thank you to our partner, Starting Over Espresso, for partnering with us to organize this Career Exploration Workshop. Starting Over Espresso's owner, Jeffie, is an CQI Q Arabica Grader, who has won various international coffee and latte art competitions. ☕️☕️ Jeffie will be the guest teacher to teach pulling over coffee and latte art, and share her experiences and personal storys of becoming a barista.Please join us if you are interested !Registration: https://lnkd.in/gPdP3TKy

29th June 2022 l Sincere thanks to running coach Tom Rico for spontaneously organizing Project 300 Plus for Thrive Hong Kong to raise funds for grassroots children's services, and thanks to all walks of life for their support of the event. We reunited on 𝟐𝟗/𝟔/𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐, to witness this extraordinary act of kindness and the premiere of the Project 300 Plus documentary!

Special thanks to The Hive Studios Hong Kong and Happy Sandwich for venue sponsorship and event refreshments respectively.

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11 June 2022 | Both two episodes of interview of Thrive Hong Kong on Metro Broadcast have been released and uploaded on Youtube on 𝟒/𝟔/𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 and 𝟏𝟏/𝟔/𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 respectively. Thank you to our program tutor, 小明Sir搵位攝 for inviting our interns and founders for the interview on his Metro Broadcast program"小明Sir搵位攝" again.

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12 May 2022 |The internship program has been kick started on April 23, 2022. 4 of our alumni joined as our Media Interns. They are currently learning how to do 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 under the teaching of our experienced program tutor, 小明Sir搵位攝 .Please stay tuned for the highlights of our 1st shooting day for Project 300 Plus on May 14, 2022.

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20 April 2022 | Thank you for running coach, Tom Chow, who is going to organize a 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭, Project 300 Plus. He will circle 𝟑𝟎𝟎 𝐤𝐦 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 by 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 from 𝟐𝟖 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝟐𝟗 𝐌𝐚𝐲.

Thrive Hong Kong is so blessed to be the beneficiary of this event. Thank you for Tom’s support once again.

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20 Feb 2022 | Our 1st PDP Experience Day has inspired 10 P4 students from humble backgrounds to gain their first taste of UI/UX design.  We could not have accomplished this workshop successfully without the unfailing support from our “Design” Guest Teacher, English teacher, volunteers, ambassadors, and co-founders.

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Nov 2021 | Our heartfelt thanks to Sofe Coffee  and 3 plus 1 creation for kicking off the "You buy, We donate Charity Campaign" to support Thrive Hong Kong.

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18 June 2021 | Proper Etiquette and manners are crucial in making a good first impression; especially in the Business world!

Our "Internship for Good" employer Ms Helen Or, took our ambassadors out for a dim sum lunch and explained and demonstrated proper dining etiquette when attending a business meal.

Sept 2020 to Mar 2021 | Thrive Hong Kong has collaborated with the 180 Degrees Consulting CityU Branch. Many congrats and heart felt gratitude to the student consultants for their very creative proposal to us. 

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May 2020 | Under Section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance, Thrive Hong Kong (IR File No.: 91/16799) is now officially a tax-exempted registered charity! We are now preparing our Youth Development Program and experience days for 200 children. If you would like to support our program, please contact us.

19 March 2023 | Thank you very much for Ms. Miu Fung for her generous support towards Thrive Hong Kong! We are so thankful to everyone supported the charity event -《洶湧的愛》initiated by Ms. Miu Fung. 
 

We have a lot of work to do, and your generous support helps us get that important work done.

Together we inspire more children to Thrive!

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1 December 2022 | Thanks to our impact partner, Starting Over Espresso. The first donation box of Thrive Hong Kong has been placed in Starting Over Espresso. We hope you will donate generously to help more underprivileged children and youths to become confident, positive, and willing to give back to society as future leaders!

Every dollar helps!

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17 September 2022 l Thank you to Jeffie Cheung, the owner of Starting Over Espresso, for sharing with our students the journey of becoming a barista and teaching them the techniques of latte art. This is a great inspiration for the youth who want to join the industry in the future!

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10th August 2022 l Thanks to Dialogue in the Dark (Hong Kong) Foundation for inviting the two founders of Thrive Hong Kong to share with the students how to use the Thomas PPA DISC system. It enhances their understanding of themselves, also their communication patterns, which helps them to find out their career paths. The students were engaged in the activity and actively asked questions. Their learning attitude is commendable!

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28th June 2022 l Thrive Hong Kong 𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲 is now 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬!

報名連結/Registration link：

https://forms.office.com/r/1ehL0Fd0HH

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30 May 2022 | From Mission Near Impossible to Mission Unbelievable. Words fail us to express our enormous gratitude to Tom for his IRON STEEL Spirit to accomplish Project300Plus in just 42 hours. Tom has made it happen to run + cycle for more than 300 KM around Hong Kong in the last two days.

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12 May 2022 | Thank you to our collaborator 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐁𝐚𝐲 for bringing our students such a beneficial lesson about 𝐀𝐈 Our students are enthusiastic about visiting the workshop and have a try of using 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞. Also, thanks for our Thrive Hong Kong Ambassador, Katrina for being our volunteer on the program day!

Our heartfelt thanks to our sponsor, UNITEK.HongKong for making it possible!

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3 April 2022 | Our 2nd PDP Experience Day was drawn to a close. Thanks to our guest teachers Kenneth and Julian, English teacher Chin, our volunteers, and Thrive Hong Kong Ambassador team for making the lesson a success. Special thanks to our program sponsor, 3Plus1 Creation for making this happen.  

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25 Jan 2022 | Regular global meeting with our mother program, Stichting IMC Weekendschool in the Netherlands and our global sister schools, We Can Academy in Malaysia & Mundo de Talentos in Mexico for program research and development.

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12 Nov 2021 | This is our second collaboration with DBS Bank. Thank you for the enthusiastic volunteers to share their career stories and future trends in digital finance with our youth.

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7 June 2021 - Career exploration is a key pillar of our mission here at Thrive Hong Kong. In June, we invited digital entrepreneurs Ms. Heidi Lam (of NL Mind Creative) and Ms. Amy Wong (of Keypad旗號) to share their career stories & industry updates in the digital marketing and media fields.

18 & 23 Dec 2020 | Two sessions of our “Online Career Exploration Program - Digital Finance” successfully completed! Thank you to DBS Bank and their team of enthusiastic volunteers for making this workshop a fun and interactive learning experience for our youth. 

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Dec 2019 | Special thanks to  Constant, Ashley, Katie, Karina, Chris & Julius (The Hive), Vicky (Chip In Fish & Chips), Dennis (BLW), James (Jumpstart Media), Ranson, Joy, Alex (Gliitch), Wayne, Jack (Groom Me), Terry, James & Lena (Lyfegreen), Avril York, Justin &  Cavan (GTP Talent Consultancy), Tammy (Sofe Coffee), Sam (Block Manic) for making our 1st fund-raising event a great success!