Caring For and Serving the Needy

“Before getting help from Christian Action, I felt like I was constantly fighting a losing battle to make ends meet. My husband is a casual worker in the construction industry and his monthly income dropped to HK$10,000 due to the pandemic. We live in a 100 square foot subdivided unit, because that’s all we can afford. To save money, I would go to the wet market just before closing time to look for bargains and cheaper vegetables and take our two kids to the park to cool off, rather than turn on the air-conditioner at home.

It was such a relief when my relative introduced me to CA’s Mong Kok Service Centre. Now we receive a supply of essentials, including rice, milk, eggs and more each month. The balanced diet helps my children to grow up healthily and the money saved, is used to buy daily necessities. Without CA’s support, I don't think I could provide for my family and care for the elderly. Thank you so much.”
Ms. Lam (pseudonym name) shared her story.

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MTR Helps Our Kids To Dream

The question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ isn’t supposed to be a difficult one to answer. But for the roughly thirty underprivileged children in our Child Development Fund Programme, it is hard for them to imagine themselves doing anything other than what they see their parents doing now. On April 1st 2023 however, the MTR gave our kids a fabulous opportunity to catch a new vision for their lives!

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Less Talk, More (Christian) Action!

In my thirty-plus years of serving underprivileged communities, the injustices that migrant domestic helpers have had to suffer has grieved me constantly. When the pandemic struck it worsened considerably. Our city was terrified and felt helpless - which exaggerated unacceptable behavior, like the forced eviction of domestic helpers; resulting in some of them being left outside to fend for themselves in public parks; nothing could be more reprehensible!

On March 5th 2023 we collaborated with St. Andrew's Church, Harvest Mission Community Church (HMCC) and International Christian School (ICS) to organize a day of activities for domestic workers, and it was a resounding success!

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Why Does She Do It?

Falguni Mather is not your typical volunteer. Over the past ten years she has spent over 500 hours serving the refugees at our Centre for Refugees (CFR). I asked Falguni “Why do you do it?” and she was kind enough to share her unique story:

My life’s credo is that experience is not what happens to you, the incidents in your life; experience is what you do with what happens to you. We all face adversity on different levels, and how we respond makes all the difference.

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From HK Refugee Camp to Hollywood

“Dreams are something you have to believe in. I almost gave up on mine. To all of you out there, please keep your dreams alive.”

The world listened in wrapt attention last week as Ke Huy Quan, the first Asian to ever be awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, exhorted us to pursue our goals, no matter how daunting the journey. And he should know, as his life journey includes being a refugee in Hong Kong’s Vietnamese Boat People camps!

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