Wah Yan College Cats is a non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 in Wah Yan College, Hong Kong

Wah Yan College, Hong Kong

Wah Yan College, Hong Kong is an eminent grant-in-aid secondary school in Hong Kong. It was founded on 16 December 1919, by Tsui Yan Sau Peter . It is a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys run by the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus...

 which aims at looking after homeless cats which appeared in the campus of the college. It is the first to adopt the concept of college cats in Hong Kong. The teacher adviser is Ivy Ip Li Lan-Hing. The slogan of the organization is "Respect & Protect Life".

Work

The students in the organization are responsible to look after the cats every day. Since establishment, the organization has taken care of about 40 cats. Apart from daily duties, the organization also promotes the message of protecting animals, and periodically writes articles for a cat magazine.

History

Wah Yan College Cats dates back to 1993 when a cat later called Mr M appeared in the campus of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong. It was fed by the students and teaching staff, and later more cats appeared. The club was made official by the school in 1999, and the organization was temporarily situated in a small underground room below the school canteen.

In 2000 the organization successfully applied for a fund of HK$

Hong Kong dollar

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98,000 from the Quality Education Fund in order to build a cat house, with a size of 180 square inches.