RYTHM Foundation strongly believes in the importance of supporting the advancement of sustainable basic education in underdeveloped countries. This focus on education is embodied through most projects and initiatives that the Foundation supports.

The Rainbow Project, Hong Kong
ongoing

The Rainbow Project is a non-profit, charity organisation established in 1999 by a group of concerned parents and childcare professionals who identified the need for English language education for children with autism. The organisation has two main aims, which are to provide special educational facilities for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Hong Kong, and promote awareness of autism in the wider Hong Kong community. During its inception, Rainbow drew experience, practice and research from leading centres of excellence in the United States and Europe, to develop a programme of education for ASD children. As a result, two classrooms and a learning centre were established.

RYTHM Foundation's long-term association with the Rainbow Project in Hong Kong began in 2006, when a team from QuestNet, under the auspices of RYTHM Foundation, participated in Rainbow Trek, a 25km fundraising walk that started from the famous Hong Kong Peak. Through this campaign, the Foundation managed to raise a huge sum of HKD 50,000. The Foundation has also raised funds for a new classroom for autistic children at Island School, donated towards a new classroom in the New Territories, and more recently in 2009, raised HKD 40,000 under the QuestNet Pays Forward Initiative.

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RYTHM Foundation Donates HKD 40,000 to Rainbow Project to Help Children with Autism

Taguig Project in the Philippines
2007 - 2009

Fundraising for Indian Children and Women
Ongoing

RYTHM Foundation has thrown its support behind the great work being done by the Sivasakthi Homes in Chennai, India. Sivasakthi Homes is a charitable home for orphaned children and destitute women that helps educate the children and provides the women with vocational training. The Home focusses on fostering a family-like environment within a self-sustaining community to help with the overall growth and development of its residents. RYTHM Foundation works with the Home by helping to organise fundraising events and programmes.

Three-year Scholarship Programme for Tsunami-affected Students
2005 - 2007

The natural catastrophe of the December 2004 Asian Tsunami destroyed many lives, obliterated communities, and left thousands of people homeless and desperate, while creating many widowed, childless or orphaned victims. The disaster also washed away the hope of an education for many children in the affected regions. As part of RYTHM Foundation's Tsunami relief efforts, a three-year scholarship programme was initiated, granting cash donations to students of Banda Aceh, Lhokseumawe and Medan. For the length of the rehabilitating education support programme, each student received a year of school fees paid by RYTHM Foundation.

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RYTHM Foundation Presents Cash Scholarship Donation to Acehnese Students
RYTHM Foundation Provides Scholarships to Tsunami Victims in Banda Aceh
RYTHM Foundation Continues to Bring Hope to Acehnese Students

'Be A Champion' Study Tour
2005

Organised by the Training Bureau of the State Sports of the General Administration of China (SSGAC) and the Beijing Foreign Enterprise Service Co. Ltd (FESCO), RYTHM Foundation was the major sponsor of the 'Be A Champion' Study Tour. In light of the Beijing Olympics 2008, 500 Hong Kong and Macau students, aged 8-16, selected a sports activity in which they were then trained by China's national coaches. The Foundation fully sponsored 50 poor and underprivileged students nominated by their school to attend the ten-day Study Tour programme. The 'Be A Champion' Study Tour joins numerous social and charitable activities that RYTHM Foundation has successfully supported throughout the years.

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RYTHM Foundation Helps Young Chinese Youth Become Sporting Champions