I am a Parkinson s disease patient. I want to share with you my story, a story of LIGHT and HOPE !
I have been a Parkinson s patient for 15 years since 2008. After being diagnosed, I was so desperate and became completely lost in my life. I didn’t know what to do and how would my life be in the future? Everything was turned into a mess beyond my imagination. Luckily, when I did some research on it, I noticed The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation (CRN), a non-profit organization which provides a variety of activities, including the Harmonica Class which I later joined. However, I wanted to learn more as I was still young and eager to learn! That’s how I heard about The Hong Kong Parkinson’s Disease Association in my life for the first time!
Hong Kong Parkinson’s Disease Association (HKPDA) was registered as a non-profit organization in 1998 and subsequently changed from Society to Company registration in 2010. Currently, there are more than 1,500 m
No one is born to be a carer, but the carer role is mainly played by women due to traditional social norms. We believe that caring responsibilities should be a choice, not an obligation, and that women should have access to affordable childcare services and career-related training.
Currently, up to 560,431 homemakers and carers care for people of different ages and physical conditions in Hong Kong, with nearly 91% of them being women. However, caring responsibilities limit the development choices of childcarers, especially those from grassroots backgrounds, due to insufficient childcare services and employment difficulties.
The government currently provides five child care services, like Standalone Child Care Centres, Child Care Centres attached to Kindergartens and Mutual Help Child Care Centres for childcarers that aims to release women’s caring responsibilities and allow them to rejoin the labour market. But according to the 2021 data from the Labour and Welfare Bureau, the St