How kindness gave one street sleeper a new lease of life
Social workers, volunteers and a caring boss spurred outspoken homeless man to take a chance on a better future

Last year, ex-street sleeper Chan Chi-cheung was given a second chance at life.
Chan, 61, was one of the 14 street sleepers who decided to risk public humiliation and sue the government for unlawfully throwing away their belongings in February last year.
Since then, he has found a steady job, moved into public housing, is volunteering on the streets where he used to live and gained a healthy 13.5 kilograms.
Chan admits he has a checkered past. At 21 he was sentenced to 18 years jail for manslaughter, since then he served about 20 jail terms for theft and drugs. If he wasn't in jail, he was living on the streets, begging or stealing for his next meal or next fix.
He kicked his heroin habit in November 2011 and was struggling to find a job when everything on his Sham Shui Po street corner was thrown away.
"I decided to stand up and face the public and go to court [about the injustice] because I want to find my family, tell them I'm still alive and trying to change," he said.
