‘Go Paperless’ Education Aid Program
In order to motivate our MPF members to opt for e-Statement and e-Notice services (‘e-services’) to help reduce paper usage while offering better e-learning opportunities for Hong Kong's under-resourced students, Manulife MPF teamed up with St. James’ Settlement in February 2020 to launch the ‘Go Paperless’ Education Aid Program. With the support of our MPF members, we donated 400 brand new iPads* to needy students from 13 local primary schools in May 2020 to ease the learning challenges they faced due to the lack of necessary digital tools.
Change students’ lives
Since e-learning has become widespread at primary schools, most schools require their students to be equipped with tablet computers for classes and homework. Not all families, however, can afford this additional expense. Through the ‘Go Paperless’ Education Aid Program, our MPF members can do their part to help give under-resourced students better access to e-learning opportunities by opting for e-service.
Protect the environment
Opting for e-services can help cut down on the use of paper and help conserve nature. In 2018 alone, as many as 70 million sheets of papers were consumed in Hong Kong for various materials for communicating with MPF members in Hong Kong. That’s equivalent to cutting down 8,000 trees^!