V-Campaign
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From March 2007 until September 2007 V-Day 2007 fund has assisted 50 asylum
seeker and refugee women, several of them multiple times with food,
accommodation, medicine and other basic needs. We have spent HK$39,488.
All of this money has gone directly to the women. Christian Action does not take
an administrative cut but provides this emergency fund every day directly to
vulnerable women in need.
Around 100 new refugee and asylum seeker women seek assistance from
Chungking Mansions Service Centre each year. Many women arrive with children
after their husbands have been killed and their families have fled from
persecution in their home countries in Somalia, Congo, Sri Lanka, Uganda,
Ethiopia or Nepal. Almost all of these women have survived sexual violence.
Many raped in front of their families. Some have been tortured. All have lost their
homes, their families and their security due to persecution based on political,
cultural or religious grounds.
Due to the rising numbers of women asylum seeker and refugees dependent on
help from our centre, V-Day 2008 remains committed to helping these
vulnerable women. Refugee and asylum seeker women are the most vulnerable
women in Hong Kong. They have experienced severe violence and survived, but
now they face a degrading life in Hong Kong, unable to work, ineligible for social
welfare support, often detained in prison and reliving the trauma they have
escaped in their country. These women deserve our support and compassion.
V-Day provides an important opportunity each year to raise awareness about
the plight of these women. Each V-Day event mentions their situation and builds
support in the Hong Kong community. V-Day Hong Kong 2008 will continue to
assist these women, and combat the prevailing indifference in Hong Kong to
their desperate situation.
seeker and refugee women, several of them multiple times with food,
accommodation, medicine and other basic needs. We have spent HK$39,488.
All of this money has gone directly to the women. Christian Action does not take
an administrative cut but provides this emergency fund every day directly to
vulnerable women in need.
Around 100 new refugee and asylum seeker women seek assistance from
Chungking Mansions Service Centre each year. Many women arrive with children
after their husbands have been killed and their families have fled from
persecution in their home countries in Somalia, Congo, Sri Lanka, Uganda,
Ethiopia or Nepal. Almost all of these women have survived sexual violence.
Many raped in front of their families. Some have been tortured. All have lost their
homes, their families and their security due to persecution based on political,
cultural or religious grounds.
Due to the rising numbers of women asylum seeker and refugees dependent on
help from our centre, V-Day 2008 remains committed to helping these
vulnerable women. Refugee and asylum seeker women are the most vulnerable
women in Hong Kong. They have experienced severe violence and survived, but
now they face a degrading life in Hong Kong, unable to work, ineligible for social
welfare support, often detained in prison and reliving the trauma they have
escaped in their country. These women deserve our support and compassion.
V-Day provides an important opportunity each year to raise awareness about
the plight of these women. Each V-Day event mentions their situation and builds
support in the Hong Kong community. V-Day Hong Kong 2008 will continue to
assist these women, and combat the prevailing indifference in Hong Kong to
their desperate situation.
What is V-Day?
V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls that raises
funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve
Ensler's award winning play The Vagina Monologues.
In 2006, more than 2700 V-Day events took place in the U.S. and around the
world. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $40 million and educated
millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it,
crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the
Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 5000
community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Kenya, South
Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. In June 2006, V-Day launched the UNTIL THE VIOLENCE
STOPS: NYC festival which invited thousands of New Yorkers to stand up and join
V-Day in making New York City the safest place on earth for women and girls. The
'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.
Visit www.v-day.org for more information
What is Christian Action?
Christian Action is a non-profit non-government organization founded in the early
1950s. Our mission is to promote the welfare of the poor and disadvantaged in
Hong Kong and Mainland China, with particular emphasis upon displaced
persons, irrespective of race, sex, religion or nationality, through education,
vocational training, health and social services, recreation and other such means
as may be appropriate.
Visit www.christian-action.org.hk for more information
Why help refugee women in Hong Kong?
Refugee and asylum seeking women have often suffered from rape, torture,
persecution, sexual slavery, wrongful imprisonment and abuse.
In Hong Kong, we assist these women with counselling, food, basic medical care,
life skills workshops and advice at Christian Action's Chungking Mansions Service
Centre. 100% of V-Day Hong Kong 2007 proceeds will be used to help refugee
and asylum seeker women through this centre.
V-Day Hong Kong Campaign
V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls that raises
funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve
Ensler's award winning play The Vagina Monologues.
In 2006, more than 2700 V-Day events took place in the U.S. and around the
world. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $40 million and educated
millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it,
crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the
Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 5000
community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Kenya, South
Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. In June 2006, V-Day launched the UNTIL THE VIOLENCE
STOPS: NYC festival which invited thousands of New Yorkers to stand up and join
V-Day in making New York City the safest place on earth for women and girls. The
'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.
Visit www.v-day.org for more information
What is Christian Action?
Christian Action is a non-profit non-government organization founded in the early
1950s. Our mission is to promote the welfare of the poor and disadvantaged in
Hong Kong and Mainland China, with particular emphasis upon displaced
persons, irrespective of race, sex, religion or nationality, through education,
vocational training, health and social services, recreation and other such means
as may be appropriate.
Visit www.christian-action.org.hk for more information
Why help refugee women in Hong Kong?
Refugee and asylum seeking women have often suffered from rape, torture,
persecution, sexual slavery, wrongful imprisonment and abuse.
In Hong Kong, we assist these women with counselling, food, basic medical care,
life skills workshops and advice at Christian Action's Chungking Mansions Service
Centre. 100% of V-Day Hong Kong 2007 proceeds will be used to help refugee
and asylum seeker women through this centre.
V-Day Hong Kong Campaign
a huge difference to refugee and asylum seeker
women’s lives in HK through an emergency fund
which has provided shelter, food, medical care and
other daily needs.
In 2007 even more women got involved in V-Day
Hong Kong and worked hard to put on a variety of
events and theatre performances of The Vagina
Monologues. This meant an increased donation of
$100,000 to the emergency fund! 100% of this
money is currently being used to support refugee
and asylum seeker women in need of
accommodation, food, medical care and other
basic needs which so many of us take for granted in
Hong Kong.
women’s lives in HK through an emergency fund
which has provided shelter, food, medical care and
other daily needs.
In 2007 even more women got involved in V-Day
Hong Kong and worked hard to put on a variety of
events and theatre performances of The Vagina
Monologues. This meant an increased donation of
$100,000 to the emergency fund! 100% of this
money is currently being used to support refugee
and asylum seeker women in need of
accommodation, food, medical care and other
basic needs which so many of us take for granted in
Hong Kong.