Senior Citizen Home Safety Association (SCHSA) has been serving the local community for over 18 years. We observe that the ethnic minorities in Hong Kong have the same need for emergency support and care service. In this connection, we started a pilot program to extend our services to ethnic minority community. For elders and those in need of our service but with financial difficulties, we provide free 24-hour emergency support and caring services to the vulnerable seniors for life-time use.

All Ethnic Minorities Groups in Hong Kong are welcome (Indian, Pakistani, Nepalese, Filipinos, Indonesians etc...)

SCHSA offers 24-hour emergency support and caring services to the elderly and others in need through our Personal Emergency Link (PEL) Service. By simply pressing a remote control button, the users are connected to our 24-hour operating Call and Care Centre directly and given assistance they need, including

Calling the police, ambulance center and emergency contact person upon service users' requests and needs. In case of hospitalization, electronic patient records of the service user would be facsimiled to A&E department in order to speed up the rescue procedure.

We believe that non-Chinese speaking users also need care and support as other Hong Kong local citizens do. Therefore, we have arranged various home visits for them by the ethnic minority colleagues, to see how they are doing. The feedback is very positive. They really feel great and honored, and appreciated our effort on this new scheme.

In order to let ethnic minorities benefit from our service, we held and conducted numerous of talks and outreach visits in different organizations, community centres to introduce our safety services and spread the awareness through their social networking. They were extremely helpful and they think our service is quite useful and promised us to help in spreading our message.