Personal Life
Beyond her career in the film industry, Chang is an advocate for World Vision International. An organization that helps fight poverty and starvation over the world. Chang has personally created an advertisement, sponsored by World Vision, to promote the company, World Vision Advertisement. She is also a member and advocate for “30 Hour Famine”, an event World Visions sponsors. She first started almost 20 years ago to help raise awareness about malnutrition in third world countries. She has also visited Africa as well as Ethipoia in 1993. In the recent years she has used 30 hour famine to raise awareness of the effects Typhoon Morakot has done to Tawain and the poverty and famine it has created. She also personally sponsors a child in Mongolia, who she has helped to feed and take care of. She is also a World Vision Life-Long Volunteer, who strives to bring awareness to the poverty and famine around the world. She discussed her desire to be a part of this program as, “there are so many good things in the world, and so many horrible things, but all these things are for all of us to take responsibility for".
Sylvia Chang’s family life includes her husband, businessman Wang Ching Hung and her sons. While her family life is usually not made to be very public, there was an incident in 2000 that brought her family life to the surface.
In July 2000, Sylvia Chang’s nine year old son Oscar was kidnapped and held for a ransom of HK $ 15 million. However, the police found him after a few days, safe, and arrested the kidnappers. While Oscar was safe and not injured, it was still a shock to Sylvia and her husband “With your life, you have to move on, there's no other choice, so out of no choice then it's a matter of your attitude".
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