ONE Always learning with teenagers ONE Huge shadows of violence in Darfur ONE Poverty in Hong Kong workforce ONE Transparency in the workplace ONE Water bottle life jackets in India ONE Joe Mitty
er ob ct O 07 20 October in Hong Kong.
the workforce is ‘informal’ jobs, where
camp, and as a woman, I might have
sparency, while the innovative Oxfam
Around me, one out of every six
salaries and rights are not formally
been raped.
Club (celebrating its tenth year) and
neighbours is poor, and one of seven employees : the income gap is the highest ever and there is no minimum
protected. To the west: the aftermath of huge floods in India and Bangladesh.
Look around again. A few cubicles
our Interactive Education Centre (almost
away, colleagues are monitoring
two years old) are helping teenagers
HK$12 million (about US$1.5 million)
to think, feel, experience, and think again.
wage. On a ten-minute walk to the
Look over to Darfur. If I were a
worth of grants for projects in Darfur
subway station, there are perhaps 100
resident of that dusty and violent place,
and Chad. Other colleagues have just
people just barely getting by.
would I sleep in my house? Would I be
released a major report on poverty
“The world is wide enough for all of us,” wrote Charles Dickens.
To the south: of the many factory
alive? Millions of people have had to
in the workforce, and are pressuring
workers in Cambodia, about 90 per
desert their homes, to abandon their
Hong Kong’s top leader, Donald Tsang,
Madeleine Marie Slavick
cent are women, and Hong Kong is the
lives as they know it. About 200,000
for policy change. Teammates are
Editor, Oxfam News E-magazine
largest investor in the garment industry.
have been killed. I would probably be
making progress with Hong Kong’s
Oxfam Hong Kong
In the Philippines, a worrying trend in
waiting out time in an overcrowded
garm e nt co mp anie s ab o u t tran -
emagazine@oxfam.org.hk
ALWAYS LEARNING So Yuk Yan writes from the Oxfam Hong Kong Interactive Education Centre Oxfam Hong Kong is located in a
is a hut where a farmer might live. On
interactive methods, namely drama, role
typical office building in Hong Kong – a
another day, a dormitory for factory
plays and simulation.
glassy exterior, the ubiquitous marble
workers might be juxtaposed next to
The centre exists in Hong Kong, one
lobby, and a set of three lifts/elevators
a Hong Kong teenager’s bedroom. If it
of the most capitalistic economies in the
that run 18 floors of workers up, and
is wartime, there are devices to filter
world, which has the global reputation
down again. Yet there is part of Oxfam’s
contaminated water. What is it? Where
for only caring about profit. It exists
office that doesn’t look like an office
are we? In one sense the room is basic.
to contribute to the development of
at all.
Look again and it is a mini-theatre,
alternative curricula and pedagogy in
with equipment for lighting, sound and
the teaching and learning of poverty
special effects.
issues with an emphasis on global
It begins with the corridor and its mock-broken walls, just to the right of
Two sets at the Interactive Education Centre: a factory dormitory (top) and a teenager’s bedroom (bottom)
the entrance. Arriving here, you wonder
This 1,800 square foot space, with
citizenship. It is innovative in Asia for
what is behind this design. It is this
changeable sets and props, is the Oxfam
its diversified and experiential learning
questioning that Oxfam wants to foster:
Hong Kong Interactive Education Centre
that puts equitable development at its
the physical space creates a different
(IEC), a place where young people meet
centre.
thinking space in people’s minds. One
and play, a place which provokes them
Since November 2005, when the IEC
student said “the broken wall looks like
to think and ask questions, a place where
was established, Oxfam has provided
a globe” and another, “it sounds like the
they learn and discuss poverty issues,
more than 400 workshops for over
situation after gunfire”.
not in the ordinary classroom setting,
13,000 people from nearly 200 schools
but in a unique environment through
and youth groups. The number of
Open a door, and in one corner there
ALWAYS LEARNING participants more than doubled from
discussions, interviews and questionnaires
a unique learning experience and
2005 to 2006.
with about 70 teachers and 1,100 students
arousing participants’ interest and
When Oxfam was starting out with
who had joined IEC programmes. In all,
active learning, has had limitations in
this large-scale project, we had several
the evaluation indicates that the centre
leading to in-depth and long-lasting
concerns. Would enough teachers be able
has been effective in presenting global
change through action. Oxfam needs
to find the time to bring their students
citizenship and in deepening people’s
to go beyond this kind of short-term
to a location-bound centre, when the
understanding of poverty.
workshop and provide more follow-up
teaching load can mean inflexibility
The first stage in the life of IEC
and consolidated learning programmes,
and examination requirements can eat
focused on the development of our
and we are currently developing ways to
up timetables? Could we find room
workshops. We now have 12, covering
meet this need.
within the recent educational reforms
such issues as the poverty gap, disasters
At just two years of age, the IEC
to introduce more poverty issues into
and the environment, war and conflict,
is only a toddler: we are learning all
the curriculum? Would our site-specific
and international trade and poverty.
the time. We celebrate the creativity,
programmes consistently arouse young
The newest workshop, which we are
potential and success of the centre, yet
people’s interest in poverty issues? For
fine-tuning at this very moment, will be
we are also ready to find better ways of
the IEC to be sustainable and effective,
on climate change and poverty.
meeting our goals. The ultimate picture
investments of resources needed to
‘Siu Ying and Nick’, which dramatises
in our mind is a community of young
the gap between the lives of teenage
people who understand their rights
Two years and two feasibility studies
factory workers in southern China and
and responsibilities as global citizens,
later, we have received an overwhelming
middle-class teenagers right here in
who have the knowledge and ability to
vote of support. Remarks by teachers
Hong Kong, remains the most popular
act on global and local issues, and most
are not very different from students.
in our series. The three-hour experiential
importantly, who will remain committed
A teacher writes on a feedback form:
journey is based on the real-life story
to act for a fair society. They are Oxfam’s
“Compared to lecturing, it is much
of a woman who transformed herself
partners in community development,
more effective. Students can easily step
from a migrant worker at a toy factory
fundraising, campaigns, policy advocacy,
into the shoes of different roles. The
in Shenzhen, in the east of China, into
and public education. They are sources
discussion that follows is also helpful
an advocate and activist for services
of creative and innovative ideas to
in arousing thoughts and stimulating
for people with disabilities back in her
reduce poverty and injustice. IEC has this
analysis.” A student contributes: “It
hometown of Chongqing, in the west.
picture in mind. We invite you to join us
balance the outputs and impacts.
is interesting in the adventure. I liked
The IEC is now in its second stage
the feeling of discovery. This makes me
of development. An important finding
curious, and I have more thinking about
by HKIEd was that participants were
what is behind the story.”
more inclined to change their attitudes
For comprehensive feedback, Oxfam
about poverty issues rather than their
also commissioned Hong Kong Institute
behaviour. Oxfam’s one-off workshop
of Education (HKIEd) to lead focus group
approach, though successful in providing
in actualising this picture. The IEC is open ever y day, Monday through Friday, except holidays, and sometimes also on the weekends. Most youth workshops are conducted in Cantonese, but programmes are available in English, too.To book a workshop or visit our adjacent resource library, contact us at 3120 5180 or education@oxfam.org.hk. So Yuk Yan (pictured, bottom, second from right) is Project Manager of the Oxfam Hong Kong Interactive Education Centre / Photos: Liu Wai Tong.
The Huge Shadows of Violence in DARFUR Lourdes Lasap writes from Hong Kong
The crisis keeps deepening – violence, thickening.
– more than in the rest of the conflict
In all interventions, Oxfam ensures
combined. Vehicles are being hijacked
that our approach does not create or fuel
and vital equipment stolen. At the
conflicts or divisions between nomads
start of 2007, aid agencies warned that
and pastoralists, and between factions,
violence had interfered to such an extent
tribes, religions, races and ethnicities. We
that operations had reached the lowest
take this into account in our targeting,
capacity for three years and that the entire
beneficiary selection, and choice of
humanitarian response – with last year’s
projects.
budget at over USD12 million for Oxfam
Basic infrastructure projects also
International alone – could collapse if
uphold safety requirements: Oxfam
the violence did not stop. In June,
wells, latrines and other facilities, for
insecurity forced Oxfam to withdraw
instance, are always located in safer
from Gereida, the largest camp.
areas. Fuel-efficient stoves reduce the
Yet Oxfam International remains
number of times women need to leave
committed. We advocate at the national,
the camp on long walks for firewood:
regional and global level to influence
on each trip, they face the risk of rape.
policy concerning Darfur. Alongside, an
Oxfam also works to make sure that
integrated on-the-ground humanitarian
camp residents know their rights, and
programme is currently assisting about
that when a crime has occurred, such as
500,000 people with water, sanitation,
rape, each person knows what services
public health and livelihoods projects.
and options are available.
With the conflict now in its fifth year, and
Oxfam’s calls for permanent cease-
reports of several hundred murders
and killed at least 12 peacekeepers.
showing no sign of abating, our response
fire, adherence to international humani-
in the past two months, on top of the
AMIS personnel see the violence as a
is becoming more and more long-term.
tarian law, strengthened peacekeeping
Most of the camps in Darfur are now
many uncounted attacks, abductions,
“huge shadow” that will have lasting
We now provide opportunities and
efforts, and safe access for humanitarian
full, and food rations insufficient, yet
rapes, robberies… Even camp residents
implications for the future AU-UN force.
training to reduce dependency on aid,
personnel. Only a cessation of violence
people keep arriving, with nowhere else
are not safe – armed men regularly
Rodolphe Adada, the AU-UN Joint Special
and promote better management of
and an effective ceasefire can bring
to go. Violence, and the omnipresent
come and steal, harass, intimidate – and
Representative for Darfur, said, “I am
scarce natural resources.
civilians the immediate security they
threat of violence, has caused one out of
peacekeepers, police and aid workers are
profoundly shocked and appalled… Not
need, and only the political process can
every three people in Darfur to abandon
also targets of attacks.
only was it a flagrant violation of the
bring about a sustainable long-term
Tens of peacekeepers have been shot
Ceasefire but an unconscionable crime
solution, a process inclusive of the many
their homes, their land, their livestock. Almost two out of every three people
dead since February 2007, with the worst
that breaks every convention and norm
groups involved, including the millions
in Darfur and eastern Chad now rely on,
attack happening on 29 September: the
of international peacekeeping.”
of displaced people.
and survive on, humanitarian aid.
African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS)
Aid workers also face assault: 13 aid
Armed violence happens every day
was attacked by up to 2,000 armed
workers, including an Oxfam driver,
in Darfur, especially in rural areas, with
men who stole weapons and vehicles
have been killed in the last 12 months
Oxfam water supplies in Kalma (top) and Kebkabiya (bottom) camps. Photos by Lourdes Lasap of Oxfam's disaster management team; she was stationed in Darfur for 18 months.
Age 70 and Hui still wants to work
not mind the low pay. He just wanted to
insisted that he know written Chinese:
make a living. The thought never crossed
a requirement he felt unnecessary for
Mr. Hui learned how to construct
his mind of receiving government
the job.
large wooden packing cases when he
assistance, to which he was entitled with
Hass also remembers applying for
was a teenager, and plied this trade
such a low salary. When his restaurant
three delivery jobs through the Labour
at various factories for decades. When
job ended, he found that no one would
Department. When he telephoned the
crates were no longer in demand, he
hire him anymore, even though he was
three companies about the jobs, he
found other factory jobs to support
still healthy and youthful: only at age 70
was told that the positions had been
himself.
did he apply for welfare.
filled. He could not believe it, as the
In the 1980s, his factory relocated to Mainland China, as did many other
Photo: Ducky Tse
Hong Kong: Poverty for One out of Eight Workers
notices had only just been placed on HASS tried 500 times to get a job
the job board. Hass felt that he was
manufacturers. Hui received HK$20,000
Mr. Hass applied for at least 500
being discriminated against, and that
(about US$2,500) as compensation for
jobs, but not one prospective employer
the employers had refused him based on
ten years of service, which he worried
replied to his applications. This was
his accent, so he asked a Chinese person
could not suppor t even a modest
during an 11-month period between
in the Labour Department to telephone
retirement. He was in his fifties by now,
2002 and 2003.
again. “When he called, the company
and managed to find a job in a small
The Pakistani man says that once,
said, ‘Okay, you come at this time for
restaurant that paid HK$2,000 a month,
when he finally got an interview at a
an interview’. It was totally ridiculous!”
plus tips from take-out deliveries. He did
factory for a machine operator job, they
Hass said.
in 2006, 63 per cent of workers in
minimum wage. Surveys in 2006 found
a recent survey, the majority does not
poverty are women, particularly
that 60 per cent of small-to-medium
pay the wage set by the government:
middle-aged women, who face both
enterprises (SMEs) support the minimum
some cleaners receive only HK$21.90/
sex and age discrimination. Typically,
wage, as does about 60 per cent of the
hour, not the required HK$26.60.
they work in casual jobs, with a low
public.
wage and little job protection.
The research leading to Oxfam’s
Oxfam’s report points out problems
44-page report was conducted by
• Poverty among minorities is dis-
with Ho ng Ko ng’s main welfare
Wong Hung, Professor of Social Work
proportionate, especially among
programme, Comprehensive Social
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The common view in Hong Kong is
in 2006: this rose by 87 per cent
South Asians, who often face racial
Security Assistance (CSSA). Despite
Professor Wong also worked alongside
that when the economy booms, poverty
from 1996 and 2006, from 222,800
discrimination : 4 4 per cent of
people’s low wages, few eligible workers
Oxfam Hong Kong in 1996 to release a
falls. Yet, poor people are not benefiting
to 418,000 workers. It is defined as
Nepalese work in menial jobs; 36
apply for their allowance through CSSA.
landmark report on Hong Kong poverty.
from Hong Kong’s recent growth: since
people earning less than HK$5,000 a
per cent of Pakistanis earn less than
The stigma is too severe. In 2006, there
Poverty in the workforce – also referred
1997, poverty has risen seven times faster
month (about US$1,300) or half the
HK$6,000/month.
were only 1,551 new cases, while there
to as ‘employment poverty’ – is an
than the GDP, and the Gini-coefficient
median income.
Oxfam’s report examines poverty
were 418,000 workers in poverty.
issue that Oxfam Hong Kong has been
– the standard measure of income
• 103 per cent more workers earn
trends in the workforce, reviews
The report also reveals the limitations
addressing for several years through
inequality – now stands at 0.533, the
less than HK$3,000 a month – from
Hong Kong SAR Government policy,
of the government’s Wage Protection
research, advocacy, public education,
highest ever.
68,600 workers in 1996 to 139,000
m a ke s p o li c y re co m m e n d a tio n s ,
Movement (WPM), a voluntary pro-
and support for community projects.
workers in 2006.
Poverty in the workforce is particularly
and presents two case stories, one
gramme for the private sector designed
worrying, according to Oxfam Hong
• Workers are earning 10 per cent
of age discrimination, one of racial
to protect cleaning and security workers,
Kong’s new report, Employed but Poor:
less than in 1996: this is the case for
discrimination, but both showing a
who are typically among the lowest paid
Poverty among Employed People in
service workers, such as dishwashers
strong desire to work.
in the workforce. Only about a third
Hong Kong:
and cleaners.
• 13 per cent of the workforce is poor
• Poverty among women workers:
Oxfam Hong Kong recommends an
of the relevant companies participate
immediate introduction of a statutory
in WPM and even then, according to
The case story of Mr. Hui is published in Life on Welfare in Hong Kong: Ten Stories, a book (in Chinese) by the Alliance on Concerning CSSA Review and Oxfam Hong Kong (2007). The case of Mr. Hass comes from A Research Report On the Life Experiences of Pakistanis in Hong Kong, produced in 2003 by the Centre for Social Policy Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the S.K.H. Lady MacLehose Centre.
Kong owned or invested. One aim of
education work began in 2002, when
the research is to see if lessons learned
the 64-city Make Trade Fair campaign
through this Project can be applied to
kicked off in Hong Kong. Oxfam Hong
workplaces around the region.
Kong has researched the sugar industry
Talking about TRANSPARENCY
Kalina Tsang
November 2007 marks one year since
make sure that CSR becomes part of
Labour Organization (ILO). Eight years
the release of our “Transparency Report:
the core of everyday business practices,
ago, in 1999, a textile agreement was
Within the realms of Oxfam Hong
in southern China and the cotton
How Hong Kong Garment Companies
not just public relations ‘talk’, Oxfam
signed between USA and Cambodia
Kong and its various networks, I will
industry in northwest China; we have
Can Improve Public Repor ting of
is undertaking more research into the
which granted quotas for Cambodian
soon be discussing transparency and
promoted Fair Trade products in Hong
their Labour Standards”. Back then,
clothing industry for a follow-up report
exports in return for better compliance
ethical sourcing with corporations
Kong; and we have lobbied the World
the majority of the companies we
on transparency. The report, to be
with international labour standards.
which have been long-time donors to
Trade Organization (WTO) and various governmental, bilateral and multilateral
surveyed were reluctant to respond,
released in Spring or Summer of 2008,
The ILO was contracted to monitor
the organisation. (Almost 90 per cent
and the results of the 60-page report
has an expanded scope, reaching some
compliance and by March 2007, over
of our funds comes from individuals and
bodies. In 2004, we released the report
were alarming: the highest score on
of Hong Kong’s biggest garment trading
300 garment factories had joined the
companies in Hong Kong.) My colleagues
“Turning the Garment Industry Inside
transparency was 10 out of 100, with
companies and manufacturers. We are
Project, about 100 of which are Hong
and I encourage youth to take action
Out – Purchasing Practices and Workers'
only four of the 16 companies scoring
also going beyond clothing companies
on injustice in the garment
Lives” and distributed our “Resource
above zero at all.
and mapping the CSR initiatives of Hong
trade; these Youth Campaign
Kit on Corporate Social Responsibility”
Times are changing.
Kong’s top publicly-listed companies in
Par tners and Ox fam Club
to the business community of Hong
I am now in regular dialogue with
28 sectors. Given their enormous impact
members visited Cambodia
Kong.
Giordano, Goldlion and U-right, among
on the economy in Hong Kong and
last year to witness the reality
other Hong Kong - based clothing
the region, it is crucial to benchmark
of workers firsthand, and when
companies. Esprit is currently reviewing
their social, environmental and CSR
they returned home, they ran
our recommendations and has indicated
performances with international best
public education events on
that Oxfam Hong Kong is the first
practices.
the streets of Hong Kong, and
NGO here that they engage with on
Oxfam is also conducting research
on the Internet too. My editor-
transparency. And just a few weeks
into labour and CSR in the clothing
colleagues have published
ago, I had a third meeting with senior
industry of Cambodia, where Hong Kong
English and Chinese editions
management at Moiselle. In all, during
is the largest investor. Almost one-third
of the book PHOTOVOICES, in
the past year or so, “Corporate Social
of all garment factories in the country
which workers speak, in their
Responsibility” – or more often, CSR
are solely or partly owned by Hong Kong
own words and through their
as its short form – has become an
companies, and our research will target
own photographs, about their
almost everyday term in the Hong Kong
this group, specifically ones which joined
daily work life in the factories of
vocabulary.
the Better Factories Cambodia Project,
southern China.
To sustain the impetus, and to help
which is monitored by the International
All of this advocacy and public
Kalina Tsang directs Oxfam's private sector engagement efforts. You too can join our call for a fairer garment industry, and for fairer trade as a whole. Visit: www. maketradefair.org.hk/trad_06/petition_eng.asp.
in Hong Kong
OXFAM HONG KONG WEBSITE
INDIA: Where Plastic Bottles become Life Jackets
www.oxfam.org.hk
OXFAM BOOKS Oxfam Hong Kong has created more than 30 books, some in Hong Kong, some in Taiwan, some on the Mainland, some in Chinese, some in English, some bilingual, and some mostly with images, which cross all languages. Through publishing the • Cellotape
voices of poor people around the world,
east state of Bihar, one of the poorest
• Fast-drying but thick cotton
we want to change the way people think about poverty. We want justice.
regions of India. Every year, people die
• 3-ply thread
Floods are a fact of life in the north-
by drowning.
Oxfam’s most recently supported supported the publication of 西部．希望
IDF sought the support of several
Oxfam Hong Kong has been working
local eateries to donate empty plastic
with villages on a disaster preparedness
bottles in bulk, and cloth merchants
programme, such as providing basic
recommended a durable fabric that
supplies, including torches/flashlights,
would not retain water for long.
大山里的孩子們 (a book on education in western China, in Simplified Chinese). To order books: www.oxfam.org.hk/public/bookstore/list?lang=iso-8859-1
E-NEWS
and working together to design in-
At first, villagers were hesitant to
expensive life jackets. Discussions with
make the life-jackets. They had never
Issued every month in English and Chinese, this e-bulletin provides the latest
staff from the Integrated Development
seen anything like it before. But now,
from Oxfam Hong Kong, with bite-sized news on emergencies, campaigns,
Foundation (IDF), a local group based
after several lives have been saved,
community projects, public education and fundraising. Oxfam e-News is emailed
right in Bihar, came up with this formula
the home-made jackets are in demand.
to more than 80,000 volunteers, campaigners, donors, Oxfam Trailwalkers, council
for a life jacket:
IDF is conducting training on this and
members and subscribers. The Editor is Echo Chow.
• 10 plastic 2 liter bottles (5 bottles for
other basic disaster preparedness
To subscribe: www.oxfam.org.hk/public/contents/16830 (English version)
measures.
www.oxfam.org.hk/public/contents/7263 (Traditional Chinese)
www.oxfam.org.hk/public/contents/7265 (Simplified Chinese)
the front, 5 for the back) Photo: Rakesh Mohan / Oxfam Hong Kong
Oxfam Club: Empathy to Action
felt the hardship of their lives. One
Ever y year for ten year s now,
student said of the man photographed
Oxfam has been running a club with
at the sewing machine “He will have to
quarterly magazine in Traditional Chinese.
Hong Kong teenagers and twenty-
go back to his low-paid job. I can leave
Mokung, which means both “no poverty”
somethings. Every year: overnight
for Hong Kong.”
and “infinity”, highlights a different
MOKUNG Oxfam Hong Kong publishes this
camps, workshops, and a trip to a
N ow, thre e mo nth s late r, the
aspect of development in each issue.
developing country. In August, 30
students are back home in Hong Kong,
The Editors are Tung Tsz-kwan and Fiona
Oxfam Club members went to Cebu
ready to take their new wisdom to the
Shek. The focus of the September 2007
in the Philippines, and saw what
streets. They have chosen Causeway
issue is on Hunger. The words above the
many typical tourists there never see:
Bay, one of the busiest districts for their
rice bowl all say ‘food’.
daily life in slums, in a factory, and
Cebu-inspired dramas, photographs,
on a mango farm. In other words:
and installations. They want to show
poverty, exploitation, discrimination
the public how our shopping habits
and unfair trade. Through all of the
can create or deepen other people’s
encounters, they developed a deeper
poverty. They want to urge us all to
sense of empathy and justice, along
travel fairly, buy Fair Trade, and to live
with a more thorough understanding
our daily lives fairly.
of poverty, labour and trade. When
For more, visit the Oxfam Club blog for photographs and stories (in Chinese): http:// oxfamclub.mysinablog.com/index.php
the Club met garment workers, they
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CAN Oxfam Hong Kong is supporting this Photo: Tai Ngai Lung
new photo-based magazine in China. CAN means both “look” and “do” in Chinese,
He even sold a live donkey once!
and each 150-page edition (in Simplified
Joe said that when he was starting
Chinese) examines a different topic.
out, he had no idea how to price
The Chief Editor of the quarterly is the
items, "but I had two words – RAGE
writer-photographer, Liu Wai Tong. CAN
and PASSION – rage, because of the
is available on the mainland and at select
inequality and injustice in the world,
bookshops in Hong Kong. The focus of
and a passion to do something about
the October edition is on Workers and
it.”
Their Products. He got the Beatles to join the cause,
as well as Laurence Olivier and many other revered celebrities. Today, tens of thousands of people volunteer
of Rage and Passion
A good man named Joe Mitty just died, at age 88. Joe Mitty was Oxfam's very first employee: he set up Oxfam's very first shop, in Oxford, in 1949. During World War II, when the British
at Oxfam shops around the world, including at two in Hong Kong: in
ONEquestion What can people do about Climate Change and Poverty?
Tsimshatsui (Silvercord) and in Central
Please tell us at:
(Jardine House).
http://forum.oxfam.org.hk/?c_lang=eng
Joe once described himself as a "little old man".
public was donating a lot of clothes
The Director of Oxfam Great Britain,
for the thousands of impoverished
Barbara Stocking, sees Joe Mitty as
people around Europe, it was Joe who
“truly a giant... His death is a great loss
spotted the potential for a second-hand
to Oxfam and to the world, but his life
market: Oxfam became a shop that sold
should be a beacon to everyone...”
everything, but bought nothing.
Photo: Oxfam Great Britain
Hong Kong
17th Floor, 28 Marble Road, Northpoint, Hong Kong O. N .E, published in the middle of each month, is also online:
www.oxfam.org.hk/one//
COVER: Oxfam Hong Kong Interactive Education Centre / Liu Wai Tong
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