Too old to work

Too poor to retire

Working elderly in Hong Kong

Interview with Dr. Chui

Dr Chui, Ernest Wing Tak Associate Professor, Honorary Research Fellow Department of Social Work and Social Administration The University...

From Credit Watcher to Door Watcher 保安：退休後的時光

Hong Kong’s security guards don’t look anything like what the job’s name suggests. It’s not difficult to find a security guard around. As...

Life in the Street Market 陳玉昆：菜市場裡的一輩子

Chan Yuk Kwan has to walk slowly and carefully through the narrow space of his vegetable stall It is 7:30 pm. Chan Yuk Kwan mops up a...

About our project

Hello there! We are Xiaoxi and Fangqi, students from the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong. This is...

Sharing is helping: "Free Lunch Man" Chan Cheuk-ming

Ming Gor's second restaurant "Pei Ho Counterparts" 63-year-old Chan Cheuk-ming, better known as “Brother Ming” or “Ming Gor”, is the...

What financial support can the elderly get from Hong Kong Government?

「基層長者生活貧窮問題，並非抽象的概念……一日這個問題得不到答案，香港不能說是關心市民福祉的社會。」 -- 周永新香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系榮休教授 "The issue of poverty amongst the elderly is not abstract…...

"I'm a person of a strong will" 休工不休息－霍美崧的快樂源泉

“Hello! Excuse me. Please book a doctor for me! Please book for me! Not ready? OK OK OK! Not yet.” (Minutes later…) “Is it the time?”...

Dialogue with "Brother Tung" 東哥小課堂

Mr. Ng Wai Tung is a social worker with the Society for Community Organisation (SoCO), a non-governmental, non-profit volunteer-based...

“Home is the first and final destination for a human being.” 林偉球：有個像樣的家才算過日子吧！

Lam Waikau walking through the corridor in the public housing Fu Wen House August 15, 2006. Lam Wai-kau, 67, never forgets the day when...