Title Sponsored by China Everbright Limited (“CEL”, stock code: 165.HK) and organized by Orbis, Hong Kong’s largest overnight fund-raising walkathon event – “Orbis • Everbright Moonwalkers” was successfully held on 2 December. This year, with the theme of “Dressed in black and white stripes to escape from darkness”, more than 5,000 walkers participated in the event and a total of more than HKD6.1million was raised to support Orbis’s global sight-saving campaigns, especially used for the construction of medical facilities and training of medical practitioners in underprivileged regions, hoping to bring its sight-saving services to benefit more people in different areas around the world.
  
The Chinese and English name of “Everbright” shows a bright and vivid feeling of the company. In recent years, the company supported various fund-raising events to fight against darkness for the needed. Apart from supporting “Lifeline Express” in various charity events and become one of its important partners, this year CEL titled sponsored “Moonwalkers” for the first time, which is the annual fund-raising event of Orbis, the largest sight-saving organization in the world. To complement CEL’s support in terms of the number of participation and money raised for the event, CEL was awarded “Top Fundraising Award”, “Most Participants Award” and Gold Award in “Corporate Fundraising Award”. 
 
“Moonwalkers” is one of Orbis’ signature fundraising campaigns and has been held for 12 years. To promote the mission of “Liberating Blind People” and to allow participants experiencing the journey “From the Dark to Light”, participants took part in the charity walk from mid-night to dawn. Every year, there are more than 5,000 participants and raised a total of more than HK$72 million for Orbis’ vision restoring programs around the world.