Annual review 2016 - 2017 | Page 31

The Hong Kong team has fun on their annual community day. Australia and New Zealand • carry out two outreach programmes at the Pacific Food Angel Eye Institute in Fiji and, for the first time, an outreach Last year we held an employee volunteering event at programme in Vietnam. Within these, our optometrists Food Angel, a food-rescue and assistance programme. will provide school children with eye screenings and will train refractionists and spectacle technicians • • disadvantaged people living in Hong Kong, Food initiate a new partnership with a local New Zealand Angel collects edible surplus food from hotels and artist to create a limited-edition frame to be launched supermarkets that would otherwise be sent to landfill, in 2018/19 and turns it into hearty hot meals for people in work with Peter Datjing Burarrwanga at his home underprivileged communities. in Elcho Island, to create a new, Aboriginal-inspired, limited-edition frame, which will be launched in 2018/19 • Supporting some of the 960,000 elderly and As part of our volunteering event, we donated 170 hours, and our Hong Kong team helped prepare, donate more paediatric glasses to the Pacific Eye cook and distribute more than 6,000 hot meals around Institute in Fiji and Regional Eye Centre in the the region. Solomon Islands HKD 10,500 was also donated to the charity. Hong Kong • support our nominated charity, Hong Kong Guide Dogs for the Blind, through fundraising events throughout the year • continue to donate obsolete and discontinued frames to Lions Club International • hold an all-team ‘giving back to the community’ event, focusing on helping disadvantaged people in Hong Kong Manufacturing and distribution • continue to support local charities and good causes at our manufacturing and distribution sites globally • encourage our teams to volunteer during their working hours to support local initiatives 28/29