The RA Foundation Hong Kong raises and channels charitable funds in Hong Kong and elsewhere for a variety of educational and cultural projects. Some of these include supporting academic research and teaching of short courses, diploma studies, Bachelor's of Arts, Masters and PhD programmes. The programmes on offer cover everything from Neurobioethics to Studies of the Holy Shroud.
Grants are available for students from Hong Kong, and elsewhere, to attend the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum a Pontifical institute of higher education and non-profit organisation, located in Rome, Italy, and/or its subsidiaries, affiliates, partners and other institutions worldwide sharing the same or similar mission.
The funds raised are destined to financing:
(a) educational programs, cultural activities and research projects;
(b) grants for students from around the world, particularly those with least economic resources, who enrol in its educational programs;
(c) promote, encourage and support any other exclusively charitable purpose; particularly those with least economic resources, who would like to enrol in educational programmes which can be either local or international.
The purpose of our work is to encourage and cultivate virtue and develop an understanding of leadership formation within education. Some of the ways we have raised funds to this end have included, an annual charitable musical concert and artistic exhibitions. The donations from these activities have benefitted Hong Kong students enrolled in the
Catholic World Fellowship or the
UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.