We regularly work with a number of partners so that we can provide our students and community with the very best.
The public health crisis caused by COVID-19 required the FIS community to implement certain measures as part of their duty to the wider community. But this difficult time has also inspired a sense of solidarity.
The French International School of Hong Kong has been honoured to receive gracious help from the following institutions and partners, who either donated masks, or provided substantial help with sourcing them. Thanks to them, we have secured sufficient stock of spare masks for students and staff. We would like to sincerely thank our partners for their unsolicited gesture of solidarity and generosity.
Located right in the heart of Tseung Kwan O lies the TKO campus, the most recent of our four campuses, which welcomed its first students in September 2018. We would like to thank those that sponsored the construction of the TKO campus. It is thanks to their support that we were able to complete this large-scale, award-winning project:
The Banque Transatlantique is a private international bank and part of the Crédit Mutuel CIC group. The bank supports many FIS projects and events, including the Tseung Kwan O campus and its inaugural events: the time capsule ceremony and the unveiling of the Mother of Water artwork.
Suez is an international water and waste treatment company. Suez is an official partner of the Tseung Kwan O campus, having contributed financially to its construction and to key campus events.
French multinational Veolia is a world leader in utilities. Veolia works with both local authorities and companies, sharing its expertise in three complementary areas: waste, water and energy management.
Founded on 30 October 1987, the French bookshop Parenthèses offers a wide variety of books, comic books and magazines in French.Parenthèses also sells books and textbooks requested by FIS teachers.Throughout the year, Parenthèses offers prizes to students for writing, reading or art competitions. In addition, they regularly work with the school’s libraries to organise writers to visit FIS.
Impaakt is an online platform which uses collective intelligence to assess companies’ social and environmental impact. Its goal is to show how sustainable companies are and to ensure they are driving change. Impaakt organises workshops to help students understand companies’ responsibilities in this area in line with the school’s commitment to sustainable development. Join the movement.
FIS supports the following organisations through its many charitable events:
Box of Hope aims to give presents to disadvantaged children in Hong Kong and Asia. FIS students fill a shoe box with useful and educational gifts.
This NGO supports schooling for girls from the Miao, Yao and Dong ethnic minorities in the north of Guangxi province by building schools, funding equipment and training local teachers. It also helps preserve their cultural traditions.
Since 1958 this charitable organisation has helped children from Southeast Asia through sponsorship programmes, building long-lasting development projects such as schools and libraries and supporting local leaders.
PSE has been active in Cambodia since late 1996. It helps children who are destitute, mistreated or who have dropped out of school by providing them with food, healthcare and education and enabling them to find work through vocational training.
The Foundation helps Chinese children from Sunbeam village, three hours from Guangzhou, who need temporary or permanent housing in order to attend school. It also shelters orphans in need.
Mayaa works in Nepal and Hong Kong, providing financial support to disadvantaged families, enabling their children to attend school by paying for exam fees, tutoring and so on. They also organise medical support for those most in need.