#聽她的話：燃亮他人 Abeer came to Hong Kong from India during her teenage years which drastically changed her perspective in life. She noticed instances of discriminations that went against her image of Hong Kong, “We expect that Hong Kong is a multicultural city. So, when you say multicultural how come you exclude other countries’ people”. She soughtContinue reading “#Hear from Her: Aspire to inspire”
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#Hear from Her: An ethnic minority single mother
#聽她的話: 一位少數族裔單親媽媽 Embracing Motherhood is the theme for Hong Kong Momtrepreneurs in 2020. The beneficiaries of MOMs4MOMs Fellowship Program are interviewed to share the stories of #EmbracingMotherhood. One of the EM beneficiaries, Ar See had share her stories and thoughts of #Embracing Motherhood: 《母限》是香港創業媽媽2020年的主題，訪問了Moms4Moms媽媽企業家培訓計劃的獲益者並分享了關於《母限》的故事。 其中一位少數族裔的獲益者－阿思，分享了她的故事和對《母限》的想法。 阿思是香港土生土長的巴基斯坦裔女性。由於她少時不愛讀書，她小學便輟學，而她的父母早早就為她安排婚姻。不過，她的婚姻並不美滿，育有兩兒的她常常遭受丈夫家暴。為逃離家暴，阿思23歲時決定離婚。不幸的是，她年少離婚後長年受社群排擠，「啲女仔朋友怕我搶佢地老公，就唔再搵我。的確佢地有啲老公古古怪怪，成日響太太背後打俾我。」 被社群排擠又不識字，單親媽媽阿思多年來把孩子帶大實在十分艱苦。不過，好學、愛笑的她還是十分積極，不時做義工和學習手工藝、美容等技能。現時兒子也終於能夠自立，不過她心中還是有一點遺憾，就是她上過的手工藝和美容進修班往往都要通過筆試才能得到證書，因此不懂得讀寫中、英文的她上完課程後總是無法考到資格，進而無法進入她真正心儀的美容行業。 「好多南亞裔女性都同我一樣不識睇同寫中文同英文，好多時通過唔到啲進修班，希望出面嘅課程都可以理解下我哋唔識睇中文，搵方法俾我哋去學習同參與。好多南亞裔女性係想出去做嘢，不過受中文讀寫限制咋。」阿思用流利的廣東語說，為她的社群發聲。 了解更多有關Moms4Moms媽媽創業家培訓計劃，資助一位母親免費學習：www.hkmomtrepreneurs.com/moms4moms 以上由Rolling Books「滾動對話」的同事進行訪談和撰寫。圖片並不是阿思她本人。 Ar See is a Pakistani womanContinue reading “#Hear from Her: An ethnic minority single mother”