Our Connect to Change campaign establishes partnerships and effects change with NGOs around the region. Here’s the schedule of the events
Gen.T is a community built on purpose. Our honourees come from diverse fields but all share a key commonality—a desire to create, collaborate and change the world.
As a platform to inspire and connect this community, Gen.T has committed to supporting a charity partner in each of the eight markets in which we operate, under our Connect to Change campaign.
Our umbrella theme for 2019 is education. Under this theme, we have selected a local partner in each market and collaborated with them to identify how we can activate the Gen.T community to make the greatest impact. Our goal is to leverage the talents of Gen.T honourees to effect meaningful change.
The details of each partnership depend on the needs on the ground, but they typically include a combination of fundraising and hands-on activities. Here’s what we’re doing in each region.
Hong Kong
Room To Read
Event Get Fit For Literacy
Venue CrossFit Asphodel
Date September 26
Gen.T has partnered with Room to Read since 2018. As a Hong Kong-based charity with a global reach—Room to Read has impacted the lives of more than 16.8 million children worldwide since founding in 2000—it's the ideal partner for our Hong Kong hub. Last year, we sponsored 50 girls to go to school for a year through the charity—one for each of the Hong Kong honourees on the Gen.T List 2018. At the same time, we also announced our intent to raise US$35,000 to build a Gen.T library with Room to Read in Cambodia. We achieved this goal, and will be taking a delegation of Gen.T honourees to officially open the library in January 2020.
This year, Gen.T is organising a fundraising event, Get Active For Education. Synergisng with Room to Read's own Fastest Executive Race—an annual fitness-themed fundraiser—the event will see fitness experts from the Gen.T List come together in possibly the city's most talent-packed workout session. The confirmed instructors are Vanessa Cheung, co-owner of CrossFit Asphodel, who will be leading a CrossFit session; yoga instructor Yogananth Andiappan; and Gianni Melwani, who will lead the class in a meditation experience.
This event is open to honourees and the wider Gen.T community. If you'd like to apply to attend, email events@generationt.asia.