HK parents of refugee children face hurdles to get them an education
Parents of some 500 refugee children in the city say they face several financial and social hurdles to provide them with an education
It's a day we all remember, the moment in our young lives when for the first time, things got serious. Good or bad, the memory of our first day at school sticks.
Cecilia also remembers that day, but not for the reasons you might think. It's because she thought it would never come.
Born in the heart of Kowloon in 2004, to a Filipino mother and a father from Pakistan, quiet and unassuming Cecilia was forced to look on as all the other children her age let go of their parents' hands and trooped gingerly into school in 2010.
That was when she was five. Then she was six; seven came and went with no change, and by eight, Cecilia - not her real name - could have been forgiven for losing hope that the day she had been dreaming of - and that she would never forget - would never actually come.
It did eventually, but the memories of feeling left out are the ones that linger for the little girl whose plight sums up that of a largely invisible group of several hundred Hong Kong children who through no fault of their own were born refugees in a city where the word is more of a curse than the cure.
