Hong Kong tour with a difference – meet domestic helpers enjoying their day off
NGO takes groups of mostly students around Central on Sundays so women there can share their culture and experiences with Hongkongers
Fourteen months ago, Melissa Masula scanned the faces of her five children under a dim light, then slipped out of her shabby home in Paranaque city, the Philippines.
It was 4am and the 37-year-old single mother had a flight to catch to Hong Kong.
On Sunday, perched on the edge of a flower bed at Statue Square in Central, she recalled the moment she said a silent goodbye to her children, the youngest barely a month old.
“I didn’t cry. I just took a look at their faces, and then left,” Masula said. “I only focused on one thing: in a month I could send [my children] money.
“The kids are growing up fast. I have no choice but to grab the opportunity to earn money,” she added, as hundreds of domestic helpers chattered and picnicked around her, taking advantage of the fine weather after days of rain.
