Community Investment and Inclusion Fund

I feel immensely honoured to lead an extraordinary team with total dedication on a laudable mission to build social capital, through partnerships in the community that create the necessary conditions to foster greater social harmony.

Thanks to the devotion and efforts of the late Dr Raymond Wu, 130 project teams and their 3,000 collaborators have been chosen as the CIIF partners and taken us thus far on a social capital development journey. This journey is hugely challenging but it is also tremendously rewarding to keep these special people deeply involved. I am proud to note that strong partnerships and neighbourhood-based mutual help networks that form the real safety nets of our communities have been set up in all districts in Hong Kong.

The journey ahead to build social capital, which involves changing values, relationships and institutions, needs to be sustained and brought to a new level. It is a daunting task and more work needs to be done.

Herein lies the fascination of being part of the CIIF family. The team and I firmly believe that there are a thousand and one ways to skin a cat. When people stop to think and wait for ready-made solutions, our creativity will wither and our communities will stagnate. The CIIF firmly believes in the social capital outcomes it promotes, and looks for creativity for their achievement. We welcome entrepreneurial spirit, creative ideas and "think out of the box" proposals.

Resources are finite, but there is no bound to our potentials to learn, add and create values for our communities and achieve synergy from working with others.

Remarkable results are evident in each and every project, including a number of co-operatives with entrepreneurship generating wide-ranging social benefits. Shared ownership, sustainability, capacity for organic growth and the will to enhance in a sustainable manner are the key ingredients to further develop our social capital. CIIF provides a useful platform for those who share this mission. We look forward to seeing you becoming each other's chosen partner in the journey ahead.