Two non-governmental organisations serving Hong Kong’s large community of about 400,000 domestic helpers, mostly women from the Philippines and Indonesia, have joined forces to train some of them as community leaders to support their peers.
Many NGOs may lack the resources and capacity to help individual workers, who work long hours far away from home and face a variety of issues. But Uplifters and EmpowerU have pulled together to create a programme that helps domestic helpers cope better with…