Crossroads International is a registered non profit corporation which takes Hong Kong's quality superseded goods and redistributes them to people in need, locally and internationally. So Crossroads seeks, indeed, to be a crossroads; a place where need and resource intersect.

How Does Crossroads Work?

Crossroads seeks to serve and support the welfare organisations that are working hard to meet need at the local level. Many such grass-roots organisations lack the funding and international infrastructure they need to do their job. Our goal is to help them fulfil their goal.

How Does Need Meet Resource?

The matches we witness amaze us.

• An adult education institute in Kunming, China, asked us for a photocopier which was able to sort into 12 categories. Natwest was moving offices and donated one that sorted into 20 categories!
• The Conrad Hotel donated a coffee-maker of commercial size. Shortly afterwards we were approached by a teacher in North West China. She wanted her students to be confident using their English in a social setting, rather than just a classroom. She was therefore opening a coffee shop to give them opportunity to learn.
• A school for nomadic children in Western China wanted bunks to provide accommodation, since its students could not live at home when their parents were always on the move. Hong Kong's new airport was closing its construction facilities at the time...and dispensing with 500 bunk beds.
• An orphanage in Hainan Island needed to furnish two apartments for its staff. Right at that time, a Hong Kong landlord rang to say she was closing down two apartments which had been recently furnished. Could we use the furniture?
• A rehabilitation group in Croatia was building a centre to help restore lives devastated by recent ethnic cleansing. They needed to furnish a guesthouse-type facility, with curtains, bedspreads, lamps, bedroom furniture, etc. The YMCA happened to be re- furbishing at the time and its donated goods met the need in Croatia to perfection. Everything was ideal. Everything matched. The timing was extraordinary.

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Crossroads International
P3 Project