Corporate Social Responsibility

As a health expert, Manulife believes that we can make a difference for our community by using our expertise and mobilising our networks and resources in this aspect. A key focus of our health and wellness drive is heart health. We have made consistent efforts to engage our employees and the community to move more and enjoy better heart health.

Healthy Living

Promoting Heart Health

Joining the global effort to raise awareness of heart health, Manulife started a global partnership with the World Heart Federation in 2017. Since then, our offices across the globe have been actively spearheading key initiatives revolving around heart health, including World Heart Day and World Hypertension Day. Our global activations engage both employees and the mass public in a variety of educational sessions and heart-healthy activities. 

Walk for Millions

We have taken part in the Walk to help raise money for social welfare agencies affiliated with the Hong Kong Community Chest, and to help our employees become more engaged in a healthy, active lifestyle. Thousands of Manulife employees, agents and their families join the walk each year, and in total we have raised about HK$20 million for the charity organisations. 

Blood Donation Drive

Over 10,000 Manulifers have bared their arms to give blood to the Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Services in the past 35-plus years.

Intellectual wellbeing

Manulife-Canadian International School of Hong Kong Scholarship 2022/2023  

To provide a holistic environment that nurtures talents, Manulife has offered the Manulife-Canadian International School of Hong Kong Scholarships since 1997. The aim of this initiative is to build a stronger future by encouraging talented children to receive first-class education. 

To learn more about the scholarship program, please click here.

Manulife Children’s Resource Centre

To empower children with special educational needs, we partnered with the Heep Hong Society to set up the Manulife Children’s Resource Centre in 2012. Located in Lam Tin, it is the first such facility in the district and is equipped with rooms for speech and play therapies.

Manulife is committed to fostering a pleasant and sustainable environment for our stakeholders and for future generations to live and grow up in. In addition to getting hands on much needed conservation works, we are making stride to reducing paper use in our business process.

Digitization

We are digitizing our key operations for the benefit of our customers and the environment. Our claims submission processes have also been digitized to reduce the use of paper. Now, claims can be submitted in as fast as one minute and digitally on ClaimSimple.hk. Each year, this initiative helps save about 400,000 sheets of A4 paper.

Conserving for the environment

Manulife volunteers are active in environmental conservation. Partnering with The Conservancy Association, Manulife volunteers planted seedlings in Tai Lam Country Park’s Manulife Tree Zone. Our volunteers’ efforts also include eco-paddy rice planting in Long Valley and laying the lawns at the WWF Island House Conservation Studies Centre. 

‘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^{^}!

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^* iPad is a registered trademark of Apple. Inc. registered in the U.S. and other countries.
^{^} Source: ‘Concerted efforts to drive digital transformation of MPF’, Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority, 2019.