INAUGURAL CELEBRATION 2009 & January events

January 20, 2009 – Hong Kong Inaugural Celebration – 8 p.m. to midnight at the Foreign Correspondence Club.

LWV along with Republicans Abroad, The Harvard Alumni Association and Democrats Abroad all endorsed this event. It is also a launch for three new charities all involved with education in HK, China and the US. Net proceeds of well over 100,000 HKD will support the China Schools Foundation to strengthen primary school education in rural China, Mandarin Immersion for Minority Youth to provide opportunities for minority Americans to study Chinese, and the Junior Statesmen Hong Kong Scholarship Fund to support opportunities for Hong Kong youth to study American government.

Additionally, the League was busy in January with the lovely cocktail reception hosted by the League at the residence of our honorary president Mei Chou and her husband US Consul General Joe Donovan. We also had an enlightening presentation about the issues facing women and girls in Hong Kong given by the director of The Women’s Foundation.