Law For Change

Change Making
22 September 2022

Law For Change

PILnet Hong Kong , Hong Kong

Incubation programmes have blossomed in recent years, supporting myriads of passionate young people to generate social impact innovations.  It is encouraging to see growing interests towards certain social topics but some topics seem to remain remote to young change-makers.  “Access to legal support” is one of the examples.

Given the nature and technical requirements of legal knowledge, it is not difficult to understand why there have been limited attempts from youth in promoting access to legal support, even it is desperately needed by underprivileged groups in Hong Kong.

To turn this situation around, ZeShan Foundation joined hands with PILnet Hong Kong (“PILnet”) for the 5th cycle of “Law for Change Student Competition” in 2022, with the vision to supporting the next generation to use law as a tool for social changes.  In the competition, university students from various disciplines will receive (i) training and mentorship on project development, (ii) partnership opportunities with civil society organisations, and (iii) seed money to prototype and implement their legal projects in coming two years.

Stay tuned for the students’ projects and change making!

Alexa Li
Assistant Program Manager
ZeShan Foundation

PILnet HK Law for Change
PILnet HK Law for Change
PILnet HK Law for Change
Judging Panel discussion.
Judge Ryanne Lai, Co-founder of ForeverGift.hk, speaks to a team.
Winning team TransForm delivers their final pitch.
Finalist team Hong Kong Green Initiative presents their final pitch.
Judging Panel shares feedback with finalist teams.
Irene So, Executive Director of ZeShan Foundation, shares feedback.
Port-of-Call Initiative wins the Law for Change Student Competition 2022.
WholeHearted wins the Law for Change Student Competition 2022.
Winning team WholeHearted with Alexa Li, Assistant Program Manager of the ZeShan Foundation.
Judging Panel, finalist teams, and project partners.
Conducting training session to participants
Team WholeHearted at the first pitching day
Team TransForm pitching to judge panel
Judging Panel discussion.
Judge Ryanne Lai, Co-founder of ForeverGift.hk, speaks to a team.
Winning team TransForm delivers their final pitch.
Finalist team Hong Kong Green Initiative presents their final pitch.
Judging Panel shares feedback with finalist teams.
Irene So, Executive Director of ZeShan Foundation, shares feedback.
Port-of-Call Initiative wins the Law for Change Student Competition 2022.
WholeHearted wins the Law for Change Student Competition 2022.
Winning team WholeHearted with Alexa Li, Assistant Program Manager of the ZeShan Foundation.
Judging Panel, finalist teams, and project partners.
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Judging Panel discussion.
Judge Ryanne Lai, Co-founder of ForeverGift.hk, speaks to a team.
Winning team TransForm delivers their final pitch.
Finalist team Hong Kong Green Initiative presents their final pitch.
Judging Panel shares feedback with finalist teams.
Irene So, Executive Director of ZeShan Foundation, shares feedback.
Port-of-Call Initiative wins the Law for Change Student Competition 2022.
Winning team WholeHearted with Alexa Li, Assistant Program Manager of the ZeShan Foundation.
Judging Panel, finalist teams, and project partners.
Conducting training session to participants
Team WholeHearted at the first pitching day
Team TransForm pitching to judge panel
Judging Panel discussion.
Judge Ryanne Lai, Co-founder of ForeverGift.hk, speaks to a team.
Winning team TransForm delivers their final pitch.
Finalist team Hong Kong Green Initiative presents their final pitch.
Judging Panel shares feedback with finalist teams.
Irene So, Executive Director of ZeShan Foundation, shares feedback.
Port-of-Call Initiative wins the Law for Change Student Competition 2022.
Winning team WholeHearted with Alexa Li, Assistant Program Manager of the ZeShan Foundation.
Judging Panel, finalist teams, and project partners.
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Incubation programmes have blossomed in recent years, supporting myriads of passionate young people to generate social impact innovations.  It is encouraging to see growing interests towards certain social topics but some topics seem to remain remote to young change-makers.  “Access to legal support” is one of the examples.

Given the nature and technical requirements of legal knowledge, it is not difficult to understand why there have been limited attempts from youth in promoting access to legal support, even it is desperately needed by underprivileged groups in Hong Kong.

To turn this situation around, ZeShan Foundation joined hands with PILnet Hong Kong (“PILnet”) for the 5th cycle of “Law for Change Student Competition” in 2022, with the vision to supporting the next generation to use law as a tool for social changes.  In the competition, university students from various disciplines will receive (i) training and mentorship on project development, (ii) partnership opportunities with civil society organisations, and (iii) seed money to prototype and implement their legal projects in coming two years.

Stay tuned for the students’ projects and change making!

Alexa Li
Assistant Program Manager
ZeShan Foundation

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