 Sign showing direction to Mother's Choice's Kennedy Road office
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| Founded | 1987 |
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| Type | Non-governmental organization |
| Headquarters | 42B Kennedy Road, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong |
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Key people |
Alia Eyres, CEO |
| Website | www.motherschoice.org |
Mother's Choice (Chinese: 母親的抉擇) is a local charity serving children without families and pregnant teenagers in Hong Kong. Mother's Choice was founded in 1987 by a small group of people concerned with the plight of Hong Kong's single teenagers and their family members coping with crisis pregnancy. Today, Mother's Choice works toward a stated goal of building stronger families.
Services
Pregnant Girls Services
Their services include a hotline, counseling and a hostel for those needing a place to stay during their pregnancy. Community education is also critical to their mission—they deliver sex education knowledge and information to young people, teachers and parents in the form of school talks, workshops and their bilingual website.
Child Care Home
In their Baby Care section, they care for up to 32 babies at any time ranging from newborn to 2 years old. In their Wee Care section, they care for up to 12 children from newborn to 6 years old with a wide range of special needs.
Adoption Services
In collaboration with the Social Welfare Department of Hong Kong, they provide local and international adoption services and advocate for their babies and children to join their forever families as soon as possible.
Foster Care Services
They provide temporary residential family care to children under 18 years of age whose parents cannot adequately care for them due to various reasons. At Mother's Choice, they care for 80 children under their Foster Care services.
Key People
Founders
- Ranjan Marwah
- Phyllis Marwah
- Helen Stephens
- Gary Stephens
Board of directors
- Ronald Lee, Co-Chair
- Lily J Ng, Co-Chair
- Nancy Chang (Yang)
- Patricia Chu
- Matthew Ginsburg
- Sunita Makhija
- Phyllis Marwah
- Julie Parkinson
- Gretchen Ryan
- Gary Stephens
- Andrew Gardener
Ambassadors
- Purviz Shroff, Patron
- Rosanna Wong, Vice-Patron
- Cass Phang, Celebrity Spokesperson
