Hong Kong Homeless

This video is for my school project '3 Months for the Homeless'. We have challenged ourselves to raise HKD15,000 (in 3 months) for the Salvation Army to improve the quality of homeless shelters in the Yau Tsim Mong district. To conclude our project and to truly experience the difficulties faced by the homeless, we will experience for ourselves what it is like to live without a home in Central, Hong Kong.

Disclaimer: The photographs used in this video are from the following sources. I claim none of this material to be my own.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/advcity/4046207542/
http://www.lonelyplanetimages.com/images/77474
http://www.6000times.com/2009/10/hong-kong-tales-from-far-east.html
http://timothytiah.blogspot.com/2009/11/disneyland-hong-kong-part-2.html
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/homeless-08212009101742.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulswee/1345289279/
http://blog.miragestudio7.com/tag/hong-kong/page/2/
http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/01297/
http://www.cairnsmedia.com/archives_feature_hong%20kong%20handover%20annivers...
http://www.soco.org.hk/homeless2/bkg_2.htm
http://woodenkimonos.com/therealmurphy/tag/homeless/
http://holdensmith.com/wordpress/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/steroge/tag/china/
http://www.schoeni.com.hk/event-ArtWalk2009.htm
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/week25/index.html
http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/tag/mongkok/
http://popupcity.net/2009/11/on-cage-homes/
http://nicolettew.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-covered-this-years-art-walk-on-mar-1...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6ef12c70-ea65-11de-a9f5-00144feab49a,dwp_uuid=9c337...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8377352.stm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hltam/2810589657/
http://www.javno.com/en/foto.php?id=19&rbr=13666&idrf=577277
http://www.hostels.com/hostels/kowloon/harbour-guest-house/27542
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7444823.stm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kymak/382864621/

Song: BREATHE ME by Sia

Enjoy

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[seminarutochan]

wondeful video

it sad that homeless aren t understand

[CaliDude1984]

@ujayet I do not know the hourly wage in HK, but food was expensive. I spent 70 - 150 hong kong dollars per meal.. but that was western style restaurants. Cheap street food can run 10 - 50 hkd

[ujayet]

@CaliDude1984 what's the hourly wages in hong Kong? and how much does a plate of food cost? thanks!

[88Claudiawg]

It is very good!

[SamuelChung94]

@unuandsuzanne to my knowledge, some are in yautsimmong and other areas such as tst i think

[TheWaldo420]

Its sad when anyone is homeless but we can start with helping our own first

sorry this should be think of Americans first then look @ otheirs secound

[CaliDude1984]

I just got back from visiting my brother in Hong Kong and was shocked to see how many people were living on the street. I couldn't believe it. This is a fantastic video, and you edited it very well. Just to give you all a point of reference, my brother said that it takes about 3 incomes to have a nice apartment, and 2 incomes to have a livable apartment in Hong Kong. He makes a ton of money, but his apartment is less than 300sf. it's amazing to me.

[unuandsuzanne]

Hi. Please please reply to this. I really hope you see this. I want to help these people. Can you please provide more exact location of these cage homes. I want to meet these people.

Me and my friend want to help them. We want to feed them. We want to clothe them. It's winter right now in Hong Kong, and I am so cold even with my heater on. I can't imagine how they are right now.

Please if you know any specific locations..

[Matty14388]

Well done mate, i hope it went well

[jbrannmark]

Good video, but honestly I live in probably the most socialistic influenced european country. We have 5000 people without a home in our 1.000.000 inhabitant capital (not counting people in "cage home" - i mean actual homeless on the street in -20°C). That is considered very little for being Europe.