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Club to provide emergency relief to victim of Kwai Chung rainstorm

06/29/2011

The Hong Kong Jockey Club announced today (29 June) that it had offered immediate assistance through the Jockey Club Emergency Relief Fund to the family of a drainage worker who tragically lost his life after being swept away by a torrent of water during a rainstorm in Kwai Chung on 17 June. His 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 family of the victim. “The Club’s Charities Trust has promptly taken the initiative to contact the SWD to provide immediate relief to the family, as they have lost their breadwinner,” 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 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 and Ma Tau Wai Road tenement building fire.

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