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Gobi Charity Walk 2025 Review

The second event expanded to 110 kilometres and brought together 160 participants, sustaining concern for the emotional wellbeing of underprivileged children and young people in Hong Kong with even greater resolve.

Annual Event Overview · 2025

Generations Walking Together: Sustaining Mental-Health Awareness Across 110 Kilometres

Distance: 110 km
Date: 28 June–3 July 2025
Route: Dunhuang, Gansu · Xuanzang Trail

The Meaning of Every Step

110 km Xuanzang Trail
Campfire Evening Under the Stars
Walking for charity and taking on a physical and mental challenge
Comprehensive logistical and medical team

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Gobi Charity Walk 2025

Stories of walking together

Launch ceremony

Second event launched in the auditorium of 尖沙咀麗澤中學

The second launch ceremony was held at the Lai Chack Middle School hall in Tsim Sha Tsui on 4 January 2025, officiated by Dr Ko Wing Man, GBS, JP, with support from caring ambassadors including Ms Candy Law and Ms Alannah Ong. The ceremony introduced the event concept, route, use of funds and participant preparation, alongside professional healthcare and mental-health sharing to help the public understand the youth-support goals behind the event.

Route

Complete the 110 km Xuanzang Trail in 4 days and 3 nights

From 28 June to 3 July 2025, participants travelled to Dunhuang, Gansu and completed a 110 km walking experience along the Xuanzang Trail. The journey combined long daytime stages, camp life at night, team support and logistical safeguards, with participants supporting one another through wind, sand, sun and physical strain.

Person

From age 12 to 92, making charity a shared experience

The second event had 160 participants aged 12 to 92. Corporate teams, volunteers, healthcare professionals, families and community partners walked together. Corporate partners also led employees in taking part, linking team building with charitable commitment.

Group photo

Demonstrating the mobilisation of the second charitable challenge through the team’s scale

Group photos and stage images from the second event record the shared commitment of participants, volunteers, partners and support teams. The larger group enabled the Foundation to connect more public attention with youth emotional wellbeing and school support.

Charitable impact

Support emotional wellbeing services and school support

Event fundraising and public awareness focus on the mental health of children and young people. Areas of support include online counselling, school emotional-education workshops and subsidies for individual psychological therapy. Through its flagship event, the Foundation continues to turn community resources into support that families and schools can use.

The second Gobi Charity Walk centred on the 110-kilometre Xuanzang Trail, bringing together participants of different ages, backgrounds and professions.

Annual stories

A twenty-year promise: “If you go, I’ll go too”

At the 2025 event, Dr Ko Wing Man and 92-year-old 東叔 continued a charitable friendship spanning many years. Their promise—“If you go, I’ll go too”—encouraged participants. This intergenerational journey made the Gobi Charity Walk more than a physical challenge: it became a testament to trust, companionship and the passing on of a commitment to charity.