Mother's Choice (Hong Kong)

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.

Mother's Choice
Sign showing direction to Mother's Choice's Kennedy Road office
Founded1987
TypeNon-governmental organization
Headquarters42B Kennedy Road, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong
Location
Key people
Alia Eyres, CEO
Websitewww.motherschoice.org

Services
The central administration office at Kennedy Road also serves as a residential hostel for teenage girls during their pregnancy.

Mother's Choice takes a holistic approach to their four services to ensure all clients' needs are met, be it physical, social, medical, educational, or legal.

Pregnant Girls Services

Mother's Choice provides a safe and non-judgmental environment for young girls and their families facing crisis pregnancies, where they can make informed choices for themselves and their babies. Their holistic 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.[1]

Child Care Home

Their team of professional staff and volunteers from across the community provide loving and nurturing care for babies and children in their Child Care Home awaiting a permanent 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.[2]

Adoption Services

Mother's Choice believes that every child deserves a loving and permanent family to call their own. 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.[3]

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 and help each of them to develop loving, caring relationships and receive proper nurturing until they reunite with their birth families, join an adoptive family, or live independently.[4]

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

References
  1. "Mother's Choice Website - Pregnant Girls Services".
  2. "Mother's Choice Website - Child Care Home".
  3. "Mother's Choice Website - Adoption Services".
  4. "Mother's Choice Website - Foster Care Services".
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