請你拯救香港 – Please Save Hong Kong together

According to the latest news headlines, Hong Kong recorded its biggest retail slump on record in October when sales contracted 24.3 per cent to HK$30.1 billion (US$3.9 billion) . The government also estimates that the economy will shrink by 1.3 per cent in 2019. At the meantime, a slump in tourist footfalls will push even more retailers out of business in the coming months.

We understand the government should shoulder all of the costs regarding to this social issue and convince the landlords to “share the pain” by adopting a flexible rent model based on a percentage of sales due to the extraordinary circumstances. As public resources are limited, in order to offer a helping hand to people in need, the aim of this campaign is to i) setup a public fund for those small and local enterprises, ii) offer temporarily financial funding to the needed people who lost their job for living expenses and iii) setup social enterprises(the “SEs”) to provide sustainable support to disadvantaged groups. To increase transparency and efficiency, an official bank account for this charity fund will also be created in due course.

It seems it is impossible, but we will treat it as the hope of a beneficent person and give it our warmest welcome.

根據近日新聞報導，香港在十月份錄得有史以來最大的零售暴跌，銷售額萎縮24.3％，至301億港元（合共39億美元）。按政府估計，2019年香港經濟更會萎縮1.3％。與此同時，因應遊客量的下降，更多零售商或社區小店將於未來幾個月內因為營運壓力而倒閉。

我們明白政府應承擔是次社會爭議而引發的民生問題，除了說服業主按特殊情況下採用比較靈活的租金模式，與市民及商戶同舟共濟。但由於社會資源有限，為了向更多有需要人仕提供即時援助，是次籌款活動的的目標是：i）為本地小商戶及企業提供應急援助基金； ii）為近期因社會事件失業人士提供臨時生活資金; iii）開辦多元社會企業（SE）為弱勢群體提供可持續性的支援。為提高透明度及方便是次籌款，為慈善基金已設的官方銀行帳戶也將於稍後設立。

或許目標不易達到，但我 們 也希望各善長人翁能多多益善、少少無 拘，莫以善少而不為，為香港人加油 。