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Operation Santa Claus: Hong Kong centre offers free care for disabled people ‘from cradle to grave’
- Some of the Home of Loving Faithfulness residents such as Fung Tai and Fu Fu have spent more than half a century there
- HOLF saw a HK$1.2 million drop in donations last year compared with 2021 after long-time donors either died or left Hong Kong.
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Fung Tai*, a 72-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, held on to a red leather purse as she sat in a wheelchair at a facility for people with disabilities in Hong Kong.
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She broke into a radiant smile as soon as she saw acting coordinating superintendent Gretchen Ryan and senior manager Wenda Wong Pui-ying of the Home of Loving Faithfulness (HOLF) in Sheung Shui walk into the common room.
“She always has her handbag,” Ryan said. “A long-time volunteer brought back a Christmas gift for her recently. I’m holding it for her, and it will be a handbag.”
The home’s oldest resident has been living in HOLF for 57 years. That is not unusual.
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