Year 11 Service

Today Charlotte and I went together on Friday. We arrived and immediately received a call from one of the mission workers telling us to go to the Government Building in Admiralty to the Legal Aid Department. We walked through Central to the building up several flights of stairs, using our meager Cantonese to navigate and find our way. After finally locating the building, we discovered we were picking up 138 closed case files for the mission. We split it into two boxes then made the return trek. It was a very hot day, which exacerbated our discomfort heaving the two boxes. Upon returning, we began encoding more case files. I think this session had value because it reinforced the idea that one should help out in the way that is most helpful to the cause (not necessary the most conventionally "rewarding"), and in the cases of such necessary manual labor, someone has to do the job, and Charlotte and I are two able-bodied young people who are capable of the job. I think this i...

Today I went to service alone, and later Sherson joined. My primary activity today was looking through the case files of four full binders, and checking if they had submitted a permission form for the Mission to represent them legally, filling out the results on a checklist. Although this was slightly dull, it reminded me that perseverance ultimately can pay off in the form of social change, and in filling out this paperwork, I know that my efforts resulted in the legal cases of these migrant workers in being solved and in their eventual receiving of their rightful treatment.

Today we had an Acquaintance party to get to know all the staff and volunteers part of this meaningful project. The food was great, the people were great, and it was great seeing everyone kick back and relax on a Friday afternoon. It was especially nice to see the mission workers' children and watching them play around in St. John's Cathedral.

This session I visited on Thursday. I did filing for the entire session. Although this was relatively "menial" work, I had to be meticulous and concentrate on my work, to decipher their case number and find its binder and place it numerically. Moreover, it made me feel thankful for the life that I have when recording their wages and their living accommodations and working hours. I hope that through our work, we can improve not only our own work ethic but their lives as well.

This session I visited on Thursday. I filed two binders of Jordan files. Although this was relatively "menial" work, I had to be meticulous and concentrate on my work, to decipher their case number and find its binder and place it numerically. Moreover, it made me feel thankful for the life that I have when recording their wages and their living accommodations and working hours in Jordan. I hope that through our work, we can improve not only our own work ethic but their lives as well.

This session I visited on Thursday. I encoded case files into the database. Although this was relatively "menial" work, I had to be meticulous and concentrate on my work, to decipher their handwriting and complete all the case files. Moreover, it made me feel thankful for the life that I have when recording their wages and their living accommodations and working hours. I hope that through our work, we can improve not only our own work ethic but their lives as well.