| Caritas Hong Kong | |||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港明愛 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 香港明爱 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Hong Kong Bright Love | ||||||||||||
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Caritas Hong Kong is a charitable organisation, a member of Caritas Internationalis, founded by the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong in July 1953. It started with relief and rehabilitation services to the poor and the distressed after the Second World War. It nowaday expands to involve social service, education service, medical service, hospitality service and many others. It is led by Board of Management chairman Dominic Chan.
It is funded by the Hong Kong Government, Community Chest, other donations and fees on participants.
