Welcome

Thank you for visiting the Hong Kong Society for the Blind website.

The mission of the Hong Kong Society for the Blind is to provide services and opportunities to facilitate the equal participation of people with visual impairment in Hong Kong. According to the recent release of Special Topics Report No. 48 on Persons with Disabilities and Chronic Diseases issued by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region in January 2009 that based on the social data collected via the General Household Survey in 2008, there are at present 122,600 persons with seeing difficulty including the totally blind. This accounts for 1.8% of the total Hong Kong population. Those who are suffering from totally blind accounts for 11,400 and 60% of them are the elderly aged 60 and above; while the number of mild to moderate visually impaired amounts to 110,000.

Since its establishment in 1956, The Hong Kong Society for the Blind has continued to expand its eye care and low vision services, rehabilitation and career training, education support, employment consultation, adaptive technology, ICT applications, rehabilitation for multi-disabled persons and visually impaired elderly residential services in order to meet the changing needs of the impaired. 

With the support of those who are concerned for the welfare of the visually impaired, the Society will continue to make the best use of its expertise to join forces with the visually impaired and fellow organizations for the creation of equal opportunities and a barrier free access society.

By this website, we hope that you will have a better understanding of our work. We very much count on your continued support for the provision of quality and needy services to our clients.