James Thomson-Sakhrani

How a service project dreamed up by a teenager became the cornerstone of a Hong Kong charity

By YoyoChow.

When James Thomson-Sakhrani was 14, he was tasked with creating a service project to become an Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America’s programme. He noticed his family often collected hotel toiletries and airline kits from their travels and kept them at home. After realising that many of his relatives and family had the same habit, he gathered the products from them. At his apartment, Thomson-Sakhrani and several of his friends from the troop unpacked the kits they had received, and then reorganised and assembled them into hygiene kits. Each kit contains basic toiletries such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner and body wash. They then distributed these kits to the homeless community in Hong Kong with the assistance of a local Hindu group. The project was…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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