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Local and ethnic minority young people, in one team

Diverse Talent is a youth initiative in Hong Kong. It began with one gathering on 26 May 2025, and it is supported by Fun-Tastic, a registered charity.

An independent project inside Fun-Tastic, supported by Fun-Tastic.

How it began

A group of men and women stand close together for a photograph in a café, one of them making a heart shape with both hands.
Our first community gathering. Hong Kong, 26 May 2025.

Our first event was a community gathering on 26 May 2025. People from different backgrounds came together to celebrate diversity and inclusion.

We did not stop at celebrating. Within weeks we were turning up at events that other people had organised: a charity fundraiser in June, a rock climbing event hosted by HKCECES in August. In October 2025 our youth members spoke at a forum in the Legislative Council Complex.

In March 2026 our volunteers supported a free eye screening for seniors in Sheung Shui, by invitation. In September 2026 our Project Director trained students and new volunteers for Fun-Tastic to do the same.

That is the pattern we want to keep: bring young people together across backgrounds, then put that team to work for the wider community.

Our mark, petal by petal

The United Bloom is six petals round a gold core. The petals are the people this work brings together. Each keeps its own colour, and it is only a bloom when all six are there.

  • Seniors

    Seniors are the people we have served most directly so far. On 13 March 2026 our volunteers helped at a free eye screening for seniors in Sheung Shui, and the volunteers trained in September 2026, at Fun-Tastic sessions our Project Director led, learned to do the same with patience.

  • Youth

    Young people are who we are. Our youth members have spoken at a forum in the Legislative Council Complex, and secondary school students have learned to run a fundus camera at a training our Project Director led.

  • Ethnic minorities

    Diverse Talent brings ethnic minority and local Hong Kong young people into one team. At the Legislative Council Complex in October 2025 they stood side by side for the same cause.

  • Refugees

    Refugees are in our mark because we mean to stand beside them. If your organisation already works with refugees in Hong Kong, we would like to learn from you.

  • Partners

    Most of what we have done began with someone else: a forum organised by HKCECES, an invitation from the Lions Club, trainings run by Fun-Tastic. We are glad to be the extra pairs of hands.

  • Volunteers

    Volunteers carry the work. Before a screening day they are trained: how the camera works, how to ask for consent, how to explain a result kindly.

The gold core is what holds the six together: the plain belief that every talent belongs.

What we believe

We unite and empower Hong Kong’s diverse communities, so everyone has a place to grow.

Unity in Diversity, Strength in Community.

  • Side by side

    Local and ethnic minority young people do the same work in the same team. Nobody is the guest.

  • Turn up

    When others organise something worthwhile, we come, we help and we learn.

    Two volunteers at a screening station: one, seated, grins and gives two thumbs up, and the other stands behind him in a suit, a face mask and blue gloves.
    Volunteers at the screening station. Sheung Shui, 13 March 2026.

  • Learn the job first

    Volunteers are trained before a screening day. Our Project Director led three such trainings in September 2026.

    A seated trainer in a striped top explains a fundus camera to a ring of people standing round the table, as one of them sits facing the camera.
    A trainer explains the fundus camera to new volunteers. Fun-Tastic’s volunteer training, 12 September 2026.

  • Say only what is true

    Every event on this site has a date. Where we have more still to do, we say so.

Who leads it

Two people are named here. The work itself is carried by our youth members and volunteers.

We do not publish the names of young people or students.

  • Michael Kalyan

    Co-founder and Project Director

  • Bernard Lee

    Advisor

Diverse Talent and Fun-Tastic

An independent project inside Fun-Tastic, supported by Fun-Tastic.

Independent means we set our own direction. Supported means a charity stands behind us.

Donations and governance sit with Fun-Tastic Limited, a registered charity in Hong Kong (charity no. 91/19141).

Legal name of the charity
Fun-Tastic Limited 悠樂長有限公司
Registered charity number
91/19141
Charitable status
Tax-exempt under section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance

Fun-Tastic also runs the free eye screening service that our volunteers support. Our Project Director, Michael Kalyan, is also a director of Fun-Tastic.

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Fifteen languages, on purpose

A website about belonging should be readable by more of the people it is about. So this one is written in fifteen languages, each on its own page.

These translations were prepared by our own team and have not all been checked by native speakers yet. If a line reads wrongly, please tell us.

  • 15

    languages this website is written in

Questions people ask

Who runs Diverse Talent?

Diverse Talent is a youth initiative. Michael Kalyan is its Co-founder and Project Director and Bernard Lee is its Advisor. It is an independent project inside Fun-Tastic, supported by Fun-Tastic.

What does Diverse Talent do?

We bring local Hong Kong and ethnic minority young people together in one team, and that team shows up for the wider community. So far that has meant speaking at a forum in the Legislative Council Complex, an interview on AI and education, volunteering at an eye screening for seniors, and training volunteers for Fun-Tastic’s eye screening.

Is Diverse Talent a registered charity?

The registered charity is Fun-Tastic Limited 悠樂長有限公司 (charity no. 91/19141), which is tax-exempt under section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance. Diverse Talent is an independent project inside Fun-Tastic, supported by Fun-Tastic, and its donations and governance sit with Fun-Tastic Limited.

Why is this website in fifteen languages?

Because the people we want to reach read in more than one language. The translations were prepared by our own team and have not all been checked by native speakers yet, so please tell us if a line reads wrongly.

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