On 18th November 2020, CityU and SPCA signed an historic Memorandum of Understanding expressing the willingness of both parties to promote a partnership to advance their shared goals in training and education, improving animal health and welfare, and benefitting the local community. Signed by Dean Klaus Osterrieder and SPCA ED Alice Choi at the Wan Chai headquarters of SPCA, the MOU formalises the existing professional, collegial and collaborative bonds between JCC CityU and SPCA.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (HK) is the longest standing animal welfare non-governmental organisation in Hong Kong. The Society provides a wide range of clinical veterinary services to members alongside community programmes including animal rescue and adoption, shelter and community outreach programmes, and a wide range of animal birth control programmes for cats and dogs. The SPCA has long supported the education of veterinary surgeons, veterinary nurses and paraprofessionals and the development of shelter medicine in Hong Kong and throughout China as a key component of improving companion animal welfare in the region.