Cross-sector collaboration also sows the seed for multiplying impact, outside the immediate classroom. They get people in various industries to become invested in education.

What is lacking in low-income students’ educational experience? Arguably, their biggest disadvantage lies in the non-academic learning. And this is where cross-sector collaboration offers highly fertile possibilities.

Teach for Hong Kong started by a group of young people with great passion and educational visions. It was originally based on the “Teach for” model in America and it was quite challenging to make it suitable and sustainable under the Hong Kong culture.