Operation Santa Claus helps Hong Kong domestic workers rise as community leaders

Two non-governmental organisations serving Hong Kong’s 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 can lack the resources and capacity to help individual workers, who work long hours far from home and face a variety of challenges. But Uplifters and EmpowerU have pulled together to create the programme that helps domestic helpers cope better with their...