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With an acute shortfall of hostel places and rehabilitation services in Hong Kong, people with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities often need to wait around 10 years for a hostel place.

To help address this challenge, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has donated HK$600 million to the Hong Chi Association for the Hong Chi Jockey Club Pinehill Village development project. The first building completed under the project – the Hong Chi Jockey Club Pinehill Hostel – officially opened on 20 April.

The Trust's donation is its single biggest-ever in the rehabilitation sector. When completed in phases by end of 2018, the Hong Chi Jockey Club Pinehill Village development will become the largest rehabilitation service complex in Hong Kong for people with intellectual disabilities, providing an additional 834 service places to alleviate the long waiting list.

New facilities include the Hong Chi Jockey Club Pinehill Hostel, which provides 100 hostel places and daytime training for people with moderate intellectual disabilities; a special child care centre; an early education training centre; a children's home; a day activity centre and hostel; and an integrated vocational training centre, serving people with intellectual disabilities of all grades and ages.

In addition to this project, the Club is actively collaborating with community and non-governmental organisations to strengthen rehabilitation support services in Hong Kong. Projects include the Jockey Club Hong Chi Lodge which offers intensive on-the-job training programmes in housekeeping and catering services for people with mild or moderate intellectual disabilities; the 'JC A-Connect: Jockey Club Autism Support Network', the first of its kind in the city to provide holistic support for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder attending mainstream schools, as well as their parents; and the redevelopment and extension of TWGHs Jockey Club Rehabilitation Complex.