Our company mission is to help people live better lives and make easier decisions. It guides everything we do, including our support for the communities in which we operate. We have a corporate social responsibility to help make society stronger and more resilient. We approach this by offering a combination of our expertise, social investment and volunteer work. Our efforts centre on two areas where we are in a prime position to make a greater impact – health and wellness and the environment.
Our company mission is to help people live better lives and make easier decisions. It guides everything we do, including our support for the communities in which we operate. We have a corporate social responsibility to help make society stronger and more resilient. We approach this by offering a combination of our expertise, social investment and volunteer work. Our efforts centre on two areas where we are in a prime position to make a greater impact – health and wellness and the environment.
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.
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.
We wear pink and raise funds for the Hong Kong Cancer Fund’s annual Pink Revolution campaign. Our support for this meaningful course continues over a decade.
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.
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.
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.
The Scholarship for the 2021/2022 school year is open for application from now until February 16, 2021. To learn more about the scholarship program, please click here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.