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Thursday
Nov132014

Everybody Wins

One of our greatest challenges is funding our programmes for refugees, asylum seekers, and domestic helpers – none of which are funded by the government or large funding bodies. These are highly controversial programmes, so securing funding is challenging and often downright impossible.

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Wednesday
Nov052014

No Happy Ending

A nurse attends to Gong during his pre-surgery hospitalisation

It was a perfect little family picture: Dad going off to work on his motorbike; waving goodbye to his wife, 3-year-old daughter, and baby son. Treacherous mountain passes and poor roads wrote the end to that happy little family story.

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Wednesday
Oct292014

A Legend Comes To Visit

For six years, a legendary figure has existed in the minds of Tibetan students in Qinghai. He and his friends have changed the lives of many residents high on the Tibetan Plateau. No longer does the future of their children look bleak, and no longer are their children without hope.

The words 'Dr. Yue and Friends' are always accompanied by a buzz of excitement, not only among poor Tibetan students from Huangnan Children's Home and Tongren Ethnic High School, but also at our Hong Kong headquarters. The students recently got to meet the legendary Dr. Yue together with those of his friends who could make the journey – who were in turn excited by what they saw.

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Saturday
Oct252014

Living in Transition

Moving house is quite traumatic for most of us - especially if it is from one country to another. We are neither here nor there - most of our possessions are in transit, and for weeks it feels as if we too are in transit.

Imagine then the trauma of those who have lived 'in transit' for up to 10 years. There was no farewell party, and their destination is unknown. That describes every refugee and asylum seeker.

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Monday
Oct132014

Living the Dream

Alice is no different to many a teenager whose family has faced a financial crisis. But the fact that she is now on the way to achieving her dream job is entirely because of people like you who have supported Christian Action's Child Development Fund.

You have helped to successfully change a young woman's future humdrum working life into something she only dreamed about before she came to us.

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