Rainbow Fund
In order to help people who are in an emergency financial crisis, the Chest has initiated an emergency relief fund in early 2004. The Community Chest "Cheung Kong" Rainbow Fund helps:
- individuals and families with imminent needs - threat to survival; or
- individuals and families with imminent needs - otherwise causing irreversible damage and social consequences;
- the marginalised in society, and those who may be caught between gaps.
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