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CUHK Students Teach Asylum Seekers Cantonese

Six CUHK students have organized a social service project ‘Love·Care·Boundaryless’, subsidized by the I·CARE Centre for Whole-person Development, in this summer. They cooperated with the Hong Kong Refugee Union and organized weekly Cantonese classes for adult asylum seekers in the office of Refugee Union in Sai Ying Pun. They taught basic Cantonese vocabularies and sentences for daily communication. In addition, the CUHK students organized a one-day tour around Hong Kong Island for the asylum seekers’ families to have a joyful moment and practise the Cantonese learnt. During the trip, they experienced the local food culture ‘yum cha’, shared good time in the Observation Wheel and The Peak with the students. The project has reached more than 30 beneficiaries. Currently there are around 7,300 asylum seekers in Hong Kong who are prohibited to work in the city and live on a monthly allowance of about $3,000.

This article was originally published in No. 523, Newsletter in Sep 2018.