"Adopt Us", Asks Charity
for Migrant Women
Bethune House
Migrant Women’s
Refuge asks schools for
support by "adoption"
A
doption of the Bethune House charity by a
school means support for the two shelters for
female migrant workers in need, food for the
shelter clients, legal and medical support, and
counselling and training services.
The Bethune House serves over 600 foreign domestic
workers in Hong Kong providing emergency relief and
places of refuge for the needy and distressed Asian
migrants. Through forces most often out of their control,
and sometimes victimised by physical and sexual abuse,
migrant workers in Hong Kong need help with labour rights,
legal rights and medical matters and temporary housing.
The two shelters need community support:
• To make available welfare assistance, guidance and
counseling, including para-legal advice to residents and
drop-in clients;
• To provide short-term housing and a social centre where
present and past residents can interact and mutually
support one another;
• To encourage the residents to get involved in handicraft-
making and continuing education and skills training.
These are migrant workers who are in crisis. They are
migrant workers who need support to be empowered
to regain their dignity and become productive again
in society.
School adoption of the Bethune House will bring
home to students a deeper understanding of the global
issues many are studying in their courses on economics,
psychology, history, social anthropology, and geography.
Migrant workers would be able to come to your child’s
school to share their thoughts.
Donations over HKD$100 are tax-deductible.
To help your child’s school adopt the Bethune House,
please contact its director, Edwina Antonio, at
[email protected]
The Bethune House Migrant Women’s Refuge is a
registered charitable institution under the companies
ordinance in Hong Kong. It was established in 1986 under
the Mission for Migrant Workers to provide charitable
assistance and social counseling to the needy migrant
workers and their families.