A Mother and Child Need Your Prayers!

Whether or not you are a parent, I know you would understand how hard it would be for a four-year-old child to be separated from her mother.  As a mother, I know how heartbreaking it must be for this poor woman, who recently lost her husband to cancer, to now be forced to leave her small daughter in institutional care.

What we can’t do because of red tape, we know that God often does, so please pray with me for His solution to this awful situation.

Nin Yau Dong was working in a garment factory in Shenzhen in mainland China when she met her future husband. He was from Hong Kong and worked in cross-border transportation management.  Three years later, she gave birth to their daughter, Ka Yu, in Shenzhen.  Two years after that, in mid 2009, Nin’s husband was diagnosed with intestinal cancer.  Nin didn’t give up on him and they were married later that year.  He was admitted to hospital in Hong Kong, and after he’d had surgery, Nin’s dedicated care of him was plain to see.  

During this time, CA’s staff at our Mongkok Service Centre supported Nin, as they do many new arrivals in Hong Kong, with basic food and emergency funds. Without their support and care, Nin and many others in this transitory situation would have found it extremely difficult during their time of crisis.  Sadly the cancer returned in April and metastasized. Nin’s husband died. She also lost her husband’s disability allowance and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance, so she was destitute.  Because she holds a Permit for Travelling, commonly known as a 'two-way exit permit', Nin must regularly return to Guangxi on the mainland, sometimes every two weeks, sometimes every month, or sometimes every three months to obtain extensions of her permit  until she receives a permanent HK resident’s permit.

Four-year-old Ka Yu has now received a resident’s permit and a HK identity card, but red tape insists that this little girl must remain in institutional care in HK whenever her mother has to travel to the mainland.

This is where we need your prayers because once the husband has died it becomes almost impossible to get right of abode for the rest of the family.  

Single mothers who are desperate for help are the special focus of our Mongkok Service Centre, and because our staff care deeply about these women, they have asked me to bring Nin’s situation before you.  Nin, who has suffered so much already, needs to be with her daughter, and maintain the stability of a loving home.

Please pray for a solution to this situation, and for many others like Nin, who are trapped in situations beyond their control and come to us for help and hope.

Thank you so much!