Connecting Cultures and Communities Update Report for October-December 2012 Report by the Mission for Migrant Workers (MFMW Limited). More information and photos can be found at our Facebook page at MFMW-Love Ideas Love Hong Kong projects.
Pictures on the left: Migrant workers in Hong Kong taking a trip to the Hong Kong Museum of History. Picture below: the holder of the pocket 2013 calendar
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uilding of multicultural booth that they will set up in connections continued the Multicultural Festival set for the past three months. to be held on March 3. The festival is the culminating A tour of the HK Museum activity of the project that is of History was organized hoped to draw in thousands with more than 70 migrant of migrant workers and also workers participating and local supporters to learn learning more of Hong more and appreciate the Kong’s past and of its culture. multiculturalism of Hong Kong The tour was the third batch and the interconnections that was organized under between peoples that make the Connecting Cultures and up our society. Communities project. A pocket 2013 calendar with Participants from the third holder that contained the batch and those in the first two message of promoting and have also started discussing embracing multiculturalism among their groups the was produced and concept and design of the distributed widely.
Distribution among migrant organizations continues up to date. Meanwhile, the refrigerator magnet containing a similar message for multiculturalism that will be distributed to Hong Kong households is now in its production stage. The road towards the Multicultural Festival is steadily paved by the enthusiastic and informed participation of migrant workers. Truly, an explosion of multiculturalism and respect for different cultures is in the offing!