The Hong Kong Jockey Club announced today (20 June) that it has offered immediate assistance through the Jockey Club Emergency Relief Fund to two families of the four victims who tragically lost their lives in the fire which took place in Ma Tau Wai Road last Thursday. Each family was provided with a donation of HK$100,000 through the Social Welfare Department (SWD) today.
The Club’s Chief Executive Officer, Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges expressed deepest condolences to the families of the victims. “The Club’s Charities Trust has promptly taken the initiative to contact the SWD to discuss how to provide immediate relief to the families of the deceased,” he said.
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 victims of last year's building collapse in To Kwa Wan, the flooding in Tai Po, Manila hostage tragedy and the fatal industrial accident in Lok Ma Chau.
