Crossroads Foundation

[4] Crossroads also runs interactive and immersive simulations to give participants an experience of needs like urban poverty, refugees, HIV/Aids and blindness, through their Global X-perience programmes.

A bicycle repair workshop, staffed by volunteers, refurbishes donated old bikes for despatch overseas to provide mobility, or locally to needy children and families.

Malcolm, an accountant, and Sally, a public relations consultant, had volunteered their expertise to charities assisting communities in Northern China during the floods of 1995.

Upon being asked by one of the charities to send aid, the Begbies collected donations throughout Hong Kong and sent an initial shipment of nineteen boxes.

According to the Begbies, “We thought, ‘Surely there should be a match-making service online for companies who want to help charities!’ There wasn't, though, so we built one.

Later, the United Nations asked us to build a version for them because they, too, wanted companies to help them battle world need.” Crossroads has expanded their operations throughout their existence.

Crossroads opened a fair-trade marketplace to support families and small businesses from impoverished communities worldwide.

[10] The site remains owned by the Hong Kong government and is only made available to Crossroads on a short-term lease, hindering the organisations ability to expand its services.

Crossroads has received goods from manufacturers, hotels, educational institutions, hospitals, businesses, and individuals alike.

By supplying fair trade goods, Global Handicrafts facilitates not only job growth in developing communities worldwide, but also provides sanitary, healthy, and humane working conditions for those who sell their products.

Because they survived, the participants earned sponsorship from those who supported them.” [20] After “Slum Survivor”, Crossroads received numerous requests from corporations, consulates, universities and school groups asking for similar simulations.