You’ll never whine about your fifth floor walk-up again. Or, you will, but now with a bit more perspective, hopefully.
From the Society for Community Organization, a Hong Kong-based human rights organization dedicated to improving the lives of the “1.3 million Hong Kong people who live below the poverty line – predominantly comprising the cage and cubicle dwellers, the single elderly, new immigrant women, children living in poverty, street-sleepers, people with mental illnesses, low-paid workers, refugees and ethnic minorities.” — comes a new ad campaign that asks HK residents to petition their local government to address unsafe living conditions. According to government statistics from 2009, there are nearly 100,000 people in Hong Kong — many of them elderly, women, and children — who live in cage homes, cubicles, or small partitioned flats.