Adhering to the belief in Building Homes with Heart, the SHKP-Kwoks' Foundation established by Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited (SHKP) has always spared no effort in nurturing the younger generation. The Foundation's work includes supporting high school education in poor regions in the west of the country. It has extended its reach to providing underprivileged farming families with clean drinking water, which has achieved successful results.

Recently, SHKP Independent Non-Executive Director Dr Norman Leung and SHKP-Kwoks' Foundation Associate Director Terry Li visited Dingxi to inspect the results of the Foundation's anti-poverty work for students and residents.

The SHKP-Kwoks' Foundation established a scholarship programme for Lintao Middle School in Dingxi, Gansu in 2015, offering high school education to 220 financially disadvantaged but deserving high school students. Since then, 660 scholarships have benefitted from the programme. Among the student beneficiaries last year, 89% were admitted by different universities across the country for further education. This year, Dr Norman Leung encouraged the students who will soon take the College Entrance Examination to do their best and strive for excellent results.

Dr Norman Leung and the delegation visited Da'an Village in Weiyuan, where the Foundation sponsored a project to pipe in drinking water for local farming families. According to the local government, now that 154 underprivileged families have access to safe and clean drinking water, the water supply problem of the village has been completely solved. This is a further step in reaching the zero poverty goal by 2020, and the residents showed their gratitude by putting up a monument. Since 2015, the SHKP-Kwoks' Foundation has helped bring safe and clean drinking water to over 1,100 underprivileged families in more than 10 farming villages in Lintao and Weiyuan counties, in Dingxi.

Local governments and the residents who have benefited from the initiatives complimented the Foundation on the precision of its anti-poverty projects, which are in line with the country's poverty alleviation strategies. The anti-poverty projects of the SHKP-Kwoks' Foundation have had a positive impact on education and people's livelihood in the region, and thus have received great acclaim.

The SHKP-Kwoks' Foundation is committed to alleviating poverty in Gansu and other poor regions and to contributing to the country's anti-poverty plans.