Through Education
Through Education
Who We Are
In Hong Kong, nearly 50% of young people face barriers to future opportunities in education, careers, and personal lives due to a lack of English proficiency.
Chatteris is the only educational charity that connects international graduates, local schools, and community partners to provide authentic and enjoyable English learning opportunities, thereby actively working to close the gap in English proficiency.
Our Mission
To raise the English proficiency and self-confidence of Hong Kong’s young people, particularly the less privileged, through dynamic interaction with English-speaking university graduates working in creative partnership with schools.
Our Vision
To empower Hong Kong students with enhanced English proficiency and intercultural understanding, enabling them to succeed in an increasingly globalised world.
Our Vision
To empower Hong Kong students with enhanced English proficiency and intercultural understanding, enabling them to succeed in an increasingly globalised world.
Our Mission
To raise the English proficiency and self-confidence of Hong Kong’s young people, particularly the less privileged, through dynamic interaction with English-speaking university graduates working in creative partnership with schools.
What We Do
If You Are A School
We Impact Students
Offering them an authentic and engaging English environment in their school
If You Are A Graduate
We Impact Your Future
Professionally developing our team of tutors to equip them with the skills needed for careers in education and other fields.
If You Are A Donor
We Impact Hong Kong
Connecting local businesses and organisations with schools to grant students a chance to overcome the growing inequality gap
If You Are An NGO
We Impact the Community
Collaborating with other charities across Hong Kong to offer beneficiaries English learning opportunities
The Need: English Education in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, a significant number of young people are currently excluded from accessing future opportunities in their education, careers, and personal lives due to a lack of communicative English proficiency. Generally, these students receive no reinforcement of English at home, and their family resources are too limited to make extra English language tuition financially feasible. Almost 50% of students fail to achieve level three in their English Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education exam in their final year of school every year. This means they are unable to ‘understand literal spoken English when delivered at a moderate speed in familiar accents in familiar situations’, according to the exam criteria. In an international city like Hong Kong, these students are excluded from pursuing any career that requires a base level of communicative English proficiency, from entry-level jobs in the leisure and tourism industry to management roles in international companies.
The Need: English Education in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of the most unequal societies in the world, and in 2018 an Oxfam inequality report found it to have the highest wealth disparity in any developed region. Moreover, there are very few opportunities for the more than 230,000 students living under the poverty line to engage with authentic spoken English. They do not have the chance to speak English on holidays to English-speaking countries, nor with private tutors, or even with their parents at home.
In light of these challenges, the Chatteris Educational Foundation works to match passionate recent graduates with local schools, especially those that cater for children from less privileged backgrounds. We believe that by offering these students opportunities for authentic, relaxed, and communicative use of English, we can transform their views towards the language and open up new possibilities for them in their education, career, and personal lives.
Our Work
