There are eight award recipients this year. Details as below:

• Dr Chow Sik-kuen – A plastic and reconstructive surgeon, providing medical service for patients with cleft lip or cleft palate in different provinces in mainland China, Indonesia and Madagascar, for 22 years since 1995.
• Dr Law Sheung-wai – An orthopedic surgeon, travelled to the mainland China every week to offer clinical consultations and rehabilitative treatments, in the ensuing five months of Sichuan earthquake in 2008; still visiting Chengdu every half a year currently, to follow up on the rehabilitation progress of his medical service recipients.
• Mr Walter Leung Wai-yin – A senior nurse, actively participating in various forms of overseas relief missions in Pakistan, Philippines, Nepal, and Liberia since 2010; also engaged in long term poverty alleviation efforts, such as carrying out health promotion and disease prevention project within the slum areas of Manila, the Philippines, and looking after the sick and the destitute in their final days in Calcutta, India. He just departed to Bangladesh in September 2017 to provide medical services to people suffered from flooding.
• Mr Howard Ling ho-wan – Facilitating the developments of social enterprises over the years, helping many non-profit organizations to set up more than 30 social enterprises, which hire over hundreds of the handicapped, including those with visual and hearing impairments, physical handicaps and autism.
• Mr Robert Wong Kin-ming – An architect, believes that building design can improve the living environment and people can be brought closer together through architecture, therefore advocates a “community participation” architectural concept to involve service stakeholders in the entire design and construction process, ensuring the architectural projects are humanized and tailored to users’ needs.
• Mr Chris Yeung Wai-kei & Mrs Lydia Yeung Mak Yin-fung – Emigrated to the United States in 1998, where they lived a life of stability and comfort; on a journey to mainland China to visit an orphanage in 2005, they felt the yearnings of the abandoned chidren for family and love, and therefore resigned from his job thereafter and took their three young children to settle in Nanning City, Guangxi, to embark on humanitarian work in the service of handicapped orphans and children with cerebral palsy.
   

• Ms Michelle Siu Hoi-yan – Had her eyeballs removed in a cancer surgery when she was three months old. Gifted with a singing voice despite visual impairment, she is capable of moving people around her and encouraging people facing hardship.
   

Please visit the Hong Kong Red Cross website and Facebook Fan Page for ceremony highlights.

Eight Awardees of the Hong Kong Humanity Award 2017 (from left) Dr Law Sheung-wai, Mr Howard Ling ho-wan, Mr Robert Wong Kin-ming, Dr Chow Sik-kuen, Mr Chris Yeung Wai-kei & Mrs Lydia Yeung Mak Yin-fung and Ms Michelle Siu Hoi-yan.