HONG KONG: One Square Foot – Property, inequity, poverty
Food Prices – How high will the price of rice go?
Sustainability Reporting – Global Reporting Initiative
Oxfam Trailwalker – A Hong Kong export
Policy Address – Minimum Wage Legislation
NEPAL: Nepalese Women in the Eyes of a Hong Kong Woman CHINA: Theatre-in-Education on Migrant Worker Issues
WITH CRISIS, WILL THERE BE PROGRESS?
By John Sayer
When the credit crisis in the United
are cut, international trade reduced,
Tsang, included plans to introduce
of our campaigns, or as a reader of
States first made the world news in
and funding for basic services stops.
legislation on a statutory minimum
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July last year, few anticipated that
Poor people there will suffer in terms of
wage. We hope that this will form part
engage you further and deeper, and in
it would become a major economic
their jobs, livelihoods, and their access
of a well-integrated social welfare and
a more sustainable way. Please read on,
crisis with global impact. Now, more
to health care, welfare services, and
job creation package befitting a mature,
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than a year later, the world is facing
education. In Hong Kong, too, poor
urban society. Experience in many
you to tell us what you think.
a significant economic recession. How
people are being hit by the crises: in the
countries has shown that protection
If there is any good to come out
deep and broad it will be, we can not
last edition of O.N.E, for example, we
of poor people in periods of economic
of these crises, it is that we have an
know for sure, but many predict it will
reported how people are trying to save
difficulty is effective in maintaining
unprecedented opportunity to reshape
be the most serious recession in living
money by changing their food habits,
social stability and equipping society
the rules and institutions that guide
memory.
such as eating two not three meals a
for a speedy recovery. Oxfam would
the international economy. Oxfam
day, and buying soon-to-expire food.
actively oppose any reduction of basic
adds its voice to those who suggest
poor people in developing countries
Oxfam Hong Kong believes that
Oxfam has been working for many
social services and welfare provision: in
that we can use this period of global
should not be the ones to suf fer
years to advocate a pro-poor public
hard times, these services will be more
re-engineering to ensure that the
disproportionately from this crisis that
policy in Hong Kong that addresses the
important than ever.
new economic regulations can combat
has by and large been created by those
situation of the most vulnerable groups.
Poverty is wrong. There is no reason
climate change and reduce poverty,
with financial power in developed
We are among the first civil groups to
that we should let it persist anywhere:
just as they ensure stable financial and
countries. We are extremely concerned
urge the government to acknowledge
it is caused by human inaction, and
economic systems. If this can be an
that this will be the case. The economic
the rights of people who have a job but
we have the resources and knowledge
outcome of these difficult times, then
crisis comes on top of the food price
remain in poverty. At present, Hong
to eradicate it. Oxfam Hong Kong
we will surely emerge from them with
crisis and the energy price surge,
Kong’s “employed poor” – or workers
will redouble its efforts to work with
some genuine human progress.
and poor people are at great risk of
earning under HK$5,000 a month –
people in different parts of the world
In the current economic climate,
becoming even poorer.
amount to 506,300 people, or 14.3 per
to reduce poverty and demand justice.
MORE THAN EVER, we need to help
cent of the working population.
In this past year alone, our programmes
those with less than ourselves.
Past experience has shown us that people living in poverty, and at the
Ox fam has also been vocal in
reached 30 countries, including right
edge of poverty, are hardest hit. The
advocating a universal minimum wage
here in Hong Kong, where 18 per cent
economic crisis is bound to affect
in Hong Kong, and we are very pleased
of the population is poor.
developing countries, especially if
that the October 2008 Policy Address by
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overseas aid and foreign investments
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, Donald
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John Sayer is the Director General of Oxfam Hong Kong.
ONE S
SQUARE FOOT
The rich-poor gap in Hong Kong is at its widest ever and the poverty rate is high. Even within the workforce, one in seven employees is poor. Yet, property prices remain exorbitant, with the cost of a home beyond many people’s means. In the new book ‘One Square Foot’, the well-known Hong Kong photographer John Fung asks, how high can the price of one square foot of property go? Is one square foot more important than one person? What has created this culture of greed? His multi-exposure images, taken at high-speed, are like questions: open, complex and necessary. John Fung is used to asking questions. Over the years, he has worked on many documentary assignments for many publications in Hong Kong and Mainland China. For Oxfam, he has volunteered several times, documenting our agricultural projects in rural China, tsunami relief in Sri Lanka, and advocacy efforts in West Africa, where unfair trade is impoverishing farmers. In 2005, when the World Trade Organization came to Hong Kong for a conference, he wrote, “We’ve been stuck in a car with a punctured tire for a long time... What we need to do is stand up and fix the tire together! The problems we see in the world are serious, urgent and affect us all. In the first place, we need to ask who has caused the puncture. The absurdity is that those who have caused the puncture are now meeting to discuss the problem of the puncture.” In ‘One Square Foot’, Hong Kong is the punctured place. In the eyes – and photographs – of John Fung, the city appears splintered, chaotic, imbalanced, and unreal. The Chinese title for the book translates into English as ‘Unreal Estate’. John Fung is living the problems he brings up. He began the series of photographs in 2006, when he decided to move to the city after losing his airy home on a leafy carless island forty minutes away by ferry. All he could find – and afford – in town was an apartment on the ground floor with one dark window. ‘One Square Foot’ is available at bookstores across Hong Kong and through the publisher, www.mccmcreations.com.
The Last Rice Shop By Olivia Yong
TAKING THE INITIATIVE
By Kalina Tsang
W hile Finan cial Re p o r t s are
responsibility into their practices and
standard procedure for a company,
establish a CSR reporting system.
Sustainability Reports are much less
Twelve centrally-administered SOEs
common.
already release sustainability reports
It is the vision of Oxfam Hong Kong and Global Reporting Initiative, an
and five of them produce reports using GRI Guidelines.
independent non-profit organisation
In Hong Kong, GRI seems to
based in Amsterdam, that sustainability
be an initiative for only the larger
reporting on economic, environmental,
corporations, including Cathay Pacific,
and social performance should be just
CLP, HSBC, MTR Corporation, Swire
as routine as financial reporting.
Pacific and Towngas. There is certainly
Global Reporting Initiative, or GRI
ro o m fo r im p rove m e n t a m o n g
for short, facilitates this by providing
companies, large, medium and small.
Guidelines on how such reports should
Some might say that now is not
be compiled. It launched its first
the best time to think about issues
Guidelines (G1) in 2000.
such as sustainability and corporate
GRI has a strong track record
social responsibility – when the world
with multinational corporations as
is in a financial crisis and seems to be
well as with smaller companies –
at the edge of a global recession. But
creating the best practice standards
Oxfam sees things quite differently.
and the world's most widely-used sustainability reporting framework.
Rightly or wrongly, the general public is angry about the financial
This is a notable achievement,
crisis and the use of taxpayer money
because GRI is not an intergovernmental
to bail out a sector that many associate
body with any official mandate: it is a
with excessive profit and extravagant
voluntary multi-stakeholder initiative
self-interest. The public is blaming
of like-minded people from all around
governments and the business sector,
the world, a network of people from
not only for the financial crisis, but
many different sectors, such as civil
for the energy crisis and the food
society, business, investors, and the
price crisis, too. The triple crisis is
labour movement. In fact, GRI is the
affecting everyone, but is especially
global network – the GRI ‘institution’
making life harder for people in
and its governance bodies only facilitate
poverty who have little or no buffer
the activities of the network. Through
for one disaster, let alone three.
There had once been more than
consensus-seeking approaches, GRI
Now more than ever, companies
4,000 wholesale rice shops in Hong
creates and continuously improves its
need a ‘social license’ to operate. They
Kong. Then the supermarkets came,
Reporting Framework.
need to demonstrate to the public, to
people’s eating habits changed, and
Oxfam International has been an
consumers, to communities, to their
today, Tak Cheong Tai is the only rice
organisational stakeholder since the
own investors, that in addition to
shop in all of Sai Ying Pun District. It sells
early days of GRI, and we are a member
making good products and profits,
about 60 kilos a day. Shopowner Shing
of its Stakeholder Council. Oxfam
they are socially and environmentally
Chun-yuen, in his sixties, has worked
Hong Kong Director General John
responsible. GRI reporting is one way
Sayer participated in GRI meetings
to do this.
虎熊 吉唐 ns: o i t tra Illus
in a rice shop since he was a teenager, and his family of five lives in the rear of the shop. Shing remembers when the first supermarket opened in Sai Ying Pun
as early as August 2002, when GRI
The extremes of neo-conservative
launched its G2 Guidelines. (The G3
free market ideas are dead, killed
Guidelines were launched in 2006.)
if not by massive nationalization
Yet there is a long way to go.
of banks, then by worldwide calls
in the mid-1980s. “We lost almost half
Rice is a staple for about half of the
the supply will last. I say not to buy too
Right now, small enterprises account
for more government intervention
of our sales. I only managed to pull
world’s people, and the price rise is
much: rice rots if it’s stored too long.”
for about ninety per cent of all
and regulation of the economy.
through as I didn’t have to pay rent, nor
affecting many poor people, especially
There are also customers who want rice
businesses and about sixty per cent of
The debate is now on about what
in societies where there is little or no
in small amounts; this is only possible
all employees, yet a global total of only
the new regulation will look like.
social protection. Women in Cambodia,
at rice shops – supermarkets only sell
92 small enterprises produce reports
Companies engaged with corporate
larger bags.
with GRI involvement. Currently, it
social responsibility will be influential
did I have to pay any staff.” Today’s food price crisis is another huge challenge. “The wholesale prices
for instance, are eating less than they
have been marked up twice within a
were a year ago. In Haiti, some people
Whatever the amount, Shing’s prices
is the larger companies that tend to
in that debate, and as the global
week! Nowadays people speculate on
are eating mud. Poorer people in Hong
haven’t changed much. “We haven’t
report, and they tend to be based
economy recovers in a new form, they will be stronger.
rice in much the same way that they
Kong are choosing soon-to-expire food,
marked up our retail prices by the
in Europe, with Spain as the world
speculate on stocks and shares.” Two
canned food and frozen food.
same extent. We want our rice to be
leader. In Asia, it is Japan that leads.
of the world’s largest rice exporters –
Shing compares the present crisis to
affordable to our elderly customers,
In Mainland China, the State-owned
located in Thailand and Vietnam – have
the 1967 riots and strikes in Hong Kong.
and people without a steady source of
Asset Supervision and Administration
stopped exporting rice.
“At that time, people scrambled for rice.
income.”
Commission has issued a directive
Today, people are richer and prefer to
Shing seems to run his shop as much
urging State - Owned Enterprises
eat less rice, so there isn’t a mad rush.
to make a living as to maintain good
(SOE) to embed corporate social
Yet, some customers come and want to
relationships with his customers. “One
stock up. I tell them not to worry, that
customer moved out of the district, but
Increase of Rice Prices in 2007-2008 Bangladesh
so she asks me to deliver rice to her. She
66%
also needs an old friend to talk with.”
100%
Shing can be seen walking the streets
72.2%*
and narrow staircases of Sai Ying Pun,
Indonesia
10%
carrying heavy loads of rice on his
Philippines
50%
shoulders.
Cambodia Hong Kong
Sri Lanka
100%
*Up to July 2008 Tak Cheung Tai, 15 Third St, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
isn’t used to the rice bought elsewhere,
Source: The Food and Agriculture Organisation; Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong
This article first appeared, in a longer version, in the September 2008 edition of Mokung, Oxfam Hong Kong’s Chinese-language magazine. Olivia Yong is a member of Oxfam Hong Kong’s Education Team.
Kalina Tsang (pictured below) coordinates Oxfam Hong Kong’s work on private sector engagement, including on Corporate Social Responsibility. On 17 October, World Poverty Eradication Day, Oxfam co-hosted a seminar on GRI reporting for about 50 businesspeople in the garment and footwear industries in Hong Kong. For more information on GRI: www.globalreporting.org.
Girls & Women in Nepal, in the Eyes of a Hong Kong Woman Text and photos by Brenda Lee Gender inequality in rural Nepal is
Poor nutrition, malnutrition, and
income was lost. I met women who
pervasive and deep-rooted. Many girls
food insecurity are common in Nepal’s
joined an Oxfam-supported training,
and women, deprived of an education
mountain communities. Families can
and who received young goats to raise.
and health care, are destined to a life of
face food shortages for six months of
After the goats give birth, the women
poverty, generation after generation.
the year. When I met the five-year-old
pass on two of the animals to other poor
Nowadays, women farmers lead very
girl pictured on the left, I thought she
women. The women seem confident
stressful lives in that they have to
was only about two. She is small for her
to me, and I am happy that the next
manage all the farm work on their
age, and her bloated stomach indicates
generation might be different for the
own: many men have left to work in
malnutrition, which is prevalent among
girls in these faraway villages.
the cities, or across the border in India.
the children here. Many villages have
Oxfam Hong Kong is assisting women
no health centre, but people like
in mountainous Nepal in several ways,
Khinmaya, the adult pictured on the
such as with new fuel-efficient stoves
right, are changing that. Trained in an
which need less firewood and create less
Oxfam-supported project, she provides
smoke, so the workload is also less, and
free body check-ups right in the village.
women’s lungs are healthier.
If medication or more services are
Many poor rural families have no choice but to send their children to work,
Two farmers, two trainees in goat-raising
Khinmaya, a health worker right in the village
Brenda Lee, a staff member of Oxfam Hong Kong, recently visited Nepal on a documentation trip. Oxfam Hong Kong has been supporting projects in these areas of rural Nepal since 2005.
needed, people have to pay, and this is how Khinmaya earns a living.
not to school, so the cycle of poverty
Goat-raising is one way that rural
continues into the next generation,
women have traditionally earned a
especially for girls. Diukumara, the
living. A young goat can be sold for
girl pictured here, has had the chance
about 1,400 Nepal Rupees (about
to receive an education, thanks to a
US$17.50), enough to buy a month’s
new informal school built in her village
supply of food for a family of four. Yet,
in 2005. The school, which offers
few women have para-veterinary skills,
mathematics, English and other basic
such as how to vaccinate livestock, so
subjects to children aged 3-10, was
disease could not always be prevented,
supported by Oxfam Hong Kong.
some animals died unnecessarily, and
THE STORY BEGINS By Sun Guoyuan
Diukumara, happy to be at school
story, which Peng remembers well.
A five-year-old girl, malnourished
were crying. The sense of unity built
the umbrella group of Kapok Troupe).
“Many of the migrant workers told
up among the members of a troupe
Nowadays, I train NGO staff to apply
stories about their childhood with their
is important: people realise that they
theatre in their volunteer building
families. They missed them so much,
share the same feelings, the same
and community service activities; I’ve
A summer evening in Guangzhou.
The summer ‘performance’ is one
but were not able to go home. One
problems, and they naturally assist each
worked with several migrant service
A small room. About thirty people
of many run by Kapok, a troupe named
man told his story with huge sobs. He
other in many supportive ways. They
organisations, for instance.”
singing.
after the tropical tree with beautiful,
so wished to go home during the Lunar
work together to identify the problems
Another Kapok member, a middle
The atmosphere inside is the same
silky flowers and strong fibres, like
New Year and to buy some presents
clearly, and then work to find the best
school teacher, brings applied theatre
as outdoors: balmy, warm, close, and
aerial roots, or ‘grassroots’. It is the city
for his parents, but he earned so little
solutions they can.”
into her classroom. A member working
the delight in the longer nights – they
flower of Guangzhou. Kapok was set
and got even less than he was entitled
People in Kapok say that the 28-
at an environmental centre uses it
sing through to the late evening.
up after a social worker named Peng
to, because his boss cheated him.
year-old member named Guo Zhaoying
to discuss sustainable development
Passersby wonder what is happening,
Weifeng joined a theatre-in-education
He could not afford to celebrate the
has changed the most. “I used to work
education. Another member-journalist
even the landlord asks what is going
workshop in Beijing, saw its potential to
holiday at all, as the ticket alone was
in a state-owned enterprise. After I
now ha s mo re of a civil s o cie t y
on: the music and laughter is the first
discuss social injustice, and introduced
too expensive. He was struggling for
learned about Kapok’s approach to
perspective in her writing. Kapok is
performance of its kind, and the songs
it to Guangzhou, where it has become
many days: wanting a family reunion so
theatre, I became crazy for it. I became
growing strong, just like the sturdy,
express the lives of migrant workers in
very popular.
badly, but equally worrying about the
a volunteer, and from then on, my life
silky flower.
Since 2004, Kapok has worked with
money. At last he realised he missed his
changed so much. I joined the training
And the story continues. A new
the big city. Development education and theatre
many organisations and facilitated them
father and mother so much that he had
sessions from the ver y beginning
group in Beijing, named ‘Hawbunch’
are also alike. Development education
to form their own groups. Members of
no choice but to get himself home. He
and have planned many public
after a snack from the hawthorne plant,
inspires youth to rethink ‘development’
Kapok have enlarged their life circle,
was so excited when he saw his parents
performances since. I have discovered
has produced The Story of a Pair of
through knowledge, values and the
working with a wide range of people,
at the gate of the village that he rushed
so many new possibilities in my life
Jeans which traces the denim from the
body, while theatre also focuses on the
from migrant workers, to high school
into their arms and burst into tears. It
along the way, and I have also learned
cotton fields to the department store,
physical, the experiential, the sensory.
and university students, and people
was at that moment that he saw just
how important it is for young people
with the lives of some of the people in
On this summer night, people see and
with leprosy. They use different kinds of
how much suffering he had had to
to get involved in social development. I
between: the farmer, manufacturer,
feel the links between oneself and the
theatre at different times – from forum
endure, and so far from his home.
finally decided to resign from my steady
migrant worker and consumer.
larger local, and global, community, and
theatre (with the migrant workers that
“When Kapok improvised and
job, threw myself wholeheartedly into
they are empowered to think critically.
summer evening in Guangzhou) to
performed this man’s story in our
this theatre, and become a full member
When education encounters theatre,
playback theatre (with migrant workers
playback theatre style, he sobbed again.
of Kapok Volunteer Action Network
the story begins.
in the city of Panyu). Here is the Panyu
But he was not alone. Many people
(the registered organisation which is
GUANGZHOU, CHINA: Theatre-in-education in action
Sun Guoyuan is a member of Oxfam Hong Kong's Public Education, Policyand Campaigns Team, based in Beijing.
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