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As a responsible corporation, Cathay Pacific is always willing to extend a helping hand to those in need of medical aid in the community. Cathay Pacific understands how much our care and support mean to those with medical needs.
The Cathay Pacific Wheelchair Bank
Set up in 1996 – Cathay Pacific’s 50th anniversary year – the Wheelchair Bank aims to raise funds to purchase specially adapted wheelchairs for children with neuromuscular diseases. To date, more than HK$9.5 million has been donated to the Wheelchair Bank. From 1999 onwards, the Bank is allocated an average of one month’s proceeds from Cathay Pacific’s “Change for Good” inflight fundraising programme. Over the past 14 years, the Wheelchair Bank has helped around 330 needy children, supported more than 2,300 clinic attendances and handled over 4,200 spare-part changes and modifications. Some of the wheelchairs have served up to seven different patients.
Project Orbis
Since 1989, Cathay Pacific has been a major sponsor of ORBIS, which owns the world’s only Flying Eye Hospital. The airline provides free and discounted air travel for ORBIS personnel, enabling eye care professionals to join the Flying Eye Hospital before it departs to remote places in developing countries such as China, India, Bangladesh and Africa, where they will conduct capacity building programmes to raise eye care standards.Hong Kong Society for the Blind
Since 2004, Cathay Pacific has been providing a sponsor of the Hong Kong Society for the Blind, which provides comprehensive services for an estimated 75,000 blind and visually impaired people in Hong Kong.The Sunnyside Club
Founded in 1987, the Sunnyside Club is a registered charity set up by Cathay Pacific staff. It concentrates primarily on improving the well being of mentally and physically challenged children in Hong Kong. The Sunnyside Club’s motto, “We put smiles on faces”, expresses the key aim of the charity effort. 
