SPECIAL MENTION LIST

During the interview process, The Zubin Foundation and Spencer Stuart came across a few individuals who are outstanding in their field and have a specific niche expertise. These 7 individuals deserve a special mention.

The Special Mention List is a resource for organisations and Government advisory bodies that want to understand a specific interest area in greater detail.

Name Ethnicity Gender Special mention for:

1 Mr. Mohan CHUGANI Indian Male His involvement as a long time advocate for Hong Kong’s Indian community.

2 Mr. Khan Khalid MAHMOOD Pakistani Male His long contribution to Hong Kong’s civil service in crime and security.

3 Dr. Michael M MANIO Filipino Male His contribution and commitment to improving the lives of Filipino Foreign Domestic Helpers.

4 Mrs. Poonam V. MEHTA Indian Female

5 Mrs. Sanjukta SHARMA Indian Female

Her decades of service to helping the most disadvantaged in the ethnic minority community through education and counselling.

Her years of educating and advocating for children with special education needs who are non-Chinese speaking.

6 Ms. Bungon TAMASORN Thai Female Her work to improve the lives of Thai Foreign Domestic Helpers.

7 Mr. Notan Hassanand TOLANI Indian Male His commitment to and understanding of Hong Kong’s Indian community.

Next Steps

Race for Opportunity: Diversity List 2016 started as an initiative of The Zubin Foundation and quickly gained the support of various ethnic minorities. This has demonstrated the desire of Hong Kong’s minorities to play their part in making Hong Kong stronger and better.

At The Zubin Foundation, our commitment remains to strengthen the voice of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong with the objective of developing racial inclusion. We are delighted to announce that Race for Opportunity: Diversity List 2017 will begin to solicit nominations from 1 September 2016 until 31 December 2016. We hope that you will help us spread the word.

In line with the need to create a Hong Kong that is inclusive to different races, we believe that the term “ethnic minority” may be in need of reform. It appears from our work at The Zubin Foundation that ethnic minorities themselves do not associate with this term. As such, in 2016/2017 our aim is to engage in a community-wide project of non-Chinese in Hong Kong, including our youth, on the subject of identity. We are keen to understand how such individuals self-define and will take our findings to government and policy makers for review and deliberation.

Furthermore, in 2017 we will begin our work on ethnic minority women and girls. The education of ethnic minority girls is shockingly low compared to their Hong Kong Chinese counterparts and domestic violence amongst our women is significantly high. There is clearly much work that needs to be done in these communities to both educate and empower women and girls. We are in the process of developing our strategy to best address these issues.

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