The Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia carry out missionary work offering the testimony of the Orthodox faith, supporting the Orthodox Christians, foreigners and locals, who live in South East Asia, and presents dynamic activation on the fields of the social welfare, health and education.

There are big inequalities in South East Asia: the arrogance of the wealth and the absolute poverty. In this area of our planet millions of people remain homeless, they live under conditions of lack of elementary hygiene, they do not have clean drinking water or medical treatment. The average duration of life is very short because of the diseases and vitamin deficiency. Millions of people, mainly women, do not have the possibility of being educated and do not have equal chances for a human life.

The Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong tries, through philanthropic projects, to offer daily Love, Hope and Life.
In the section of Social Welfare it develops wide social and humane activity contributing tones of food and thousands of parcels of clothing, shoes, house appliances, medicines and personal effects of hygiene. Every day it offers milk, biscuits and vitamins to the thousands of “children of the rubbish”. It builds houses for the poor families having many children which live in the streets. It realizes drillings in areas of India, Indonesia and Philippines and as a result thousands of people have clean drinkable water. It maintains an orphanage with 200 girls in India and two boarding houses for orphan and poor children in Indonesia.
In the sector of Health it activates creating nine surgeries in India and Indonesia as well as a dentist’s surgery. Soon the Ophthalmologic Clinic will be ready in Calcutta. It organizes medical missions and distributions of medicines to various remote areas. During the period after the lethal tsunami the Orthodox Metropolitanate built a Clinic on Phuket Thailand and kept a program of psychological support for the victims and especially for the children. It offered material and psychological support to the Greeks who were treated in the Hospital of Thailand. It has also fulfilled programs of treatment for people suffering from AIDS as well as programs for the maltreated women.
In the sector of Education the Orthodox Metropolitanate founds and functions Kindergarten schools, elementary schools, high schools, technical schools, a Polytechnic Academy, a Theological seminary, as well as special programs for illiterate people. Those educational foundations of the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong function in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan. Summarizing: there are 3 nursery schools, 10 elementary schools, 1 high school, 2 technical schools, 1 polytechnic academy, 1 theological seminary functioned by the Holy Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.


The Orthodox Metropolitanate is responsible for the salaries of the people working in the charity foundations, runs the buildings and pays the equipment of the foundations. The Orthodox Metropolitanate offers scholarships to pupils and students and provides them with free books and stationary. The pupils and students come from poor families or are orphans and homeless.The educational foundations of the Orthodox Metropolitanate accept students beyond any discrimination, as well as all the charity activities and the various programs are meant for everybody with no discrimination.


The Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia counts solely on the donations of the friends of its charity work for the preservation and the function of its charity programs, as it does not have any other incomes to support them.
The total cost for the charity activities of the OMHKSEA., reaches the amount of 750.000 euros annually.


We need your love!

Mainly

  • the children who were born in the streets, who never learnt what home is, or never smelt warm food, or never learnt to read or write.
  • the homeless families who sleep in the streets and try to be protected from the sun and rain with brunches of trees and cartons.
  • the maltreated women who have no rights to education and generally are exploited.
  •  the sick people who face the death because there isn’t medical treatment.
  • the children and adults who fight for a dignified life every day.

Our love can become a ray of hope and life
for thousands of people in South East Asia.


Cheques under the name:
THE ORTHODOX METROPOLITANATE
OF HONG KONG AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
704 UNIVERSAL TRADE CENTER
3 ARBUTHNOT RD, HONG KONG
Tel. 00852 25738328-Fax.00852 25738379
Email: office@omhksea.org

Banks:
1. HSBC
S/A 102-299344-838
Swift code: HSBCHKHHHKH
No 10 Harcourt Rd Hong Kong

2. Standard Chartered
S/A 447-1-071056-1
Swift code: SCBLHKHHXXX
Central Branch, Shop No 16, GF New World Tower 16-18 Queen’s Rd Central Hong Kong