The Hong Kong Jockey Club announced today (11 July) that it had offered immediate assistance through the Jockey Club Emergency Relief Fund to the families of two construction workers who tragically lost their lives after a bundle of steel bars dropped down and struck them at a work site at Tsuen Wan on 8 July. The family of each of the deceased was provided with a donation of HK$100,000 through the Social Welfare Department (SWD) today.
Soon after the accident, the Club’s Charities Trust has promptly taken the initiative to contact the SWD to provide immediate relief to the families who have lost their breadwinner.
The Jockey Club Emergency Relief Fund has been specifically established for the purpose of providing rapid relief to victims of natural disasters, accidents, epidemics and the like. It is aimed at enhancing the efficiency and flexibility of processing urgent donation requests, enabling the Club to quickly respond to those urgently in need.
Relief payments from the Fund were previously provided to families of the victims of last year's building collapse in To Kwa Wan, flooding in Tai Po and Manila hostage tragedy, and this year’s the fatal industrial accident in Lok Ma Chau, Ma Tau Wai Road tenement building fire and the deadly rainstorm in Kwai Chung.
