You Are Worth More Than Many Sparrows!

When you are a refugee you lose everything: home, friends, identity, country, your basic rights and sometimes family as well. Then, if you are not allowed to work in the country you flee to, you lose perhaps the most valuable thing of all: self worth.  Restoring the feeling of self worth to refugees is one of our aims at Christian Action.  Sometimes, all it needs is a ball!

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Making Changes

Last week I told you about Joyce, our Hong Kong Chinese social worker who enjoyed working in our Children’s Home in Xining on the Tibetan Plateau.  The Home is primarily staffed with government-employed carers, most of whom have no prior training in caring for disabled children.  Joyce was able to train the carers in recognizing the needs of children with different disabilities.  She was also able to help parents of the disabled children in their own community. This is the story of one of those changes.

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These are a few of my favourite things…

Working day after day in a Children's Home with disabled, orphaned children, and doing this in a remote location is probably not what the majority of people would enjoy doing. But according to Joyce, one of our Hong Kong Chinese social workers who served in Qinghai Province on the Tibetan Plateau, it was a very enjoyable job!

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Do Unto Others...

Many years ago, someone with a very kind heart did a good deed which helped me. His generous response when I thanked him has meant that many others have also been helped even in China's remote Tibetan Plateau region!

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The worker deserves wages

One of the sad realities of our work in Christian Action is that we are often witnesses of the exploitation of women labourers in Hong Kong's progressive and prosperous society. We are a life-line for them and without our help in fighting for their rights, the lives of these hard working women would be without hope. Let me tell you about one such case.

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