Congratulations to Miss Karrie Chan Chung Ho, Chief Supervisor of our Ethnic Minority Service for receiving the Outstanding Social Workers Award organised by the Hong Kong Social Workers Association. The award presentation ceremony was held on 8 January where the guest of honour, Mrs. Carrie Lam, the Chief Secretary presented the award.
Karrie joined us in 1993. She has worked in various service settings namely outreaching, integrated children and youth. She was assigned to be responsible for our first ethnic minority service in 2004. Karrie is well aware of the struggle and rejection faced by the ethnic minorities (EM). Throughout the years, she actively explored service gaps, such as interpretation service so that EMS could have access to information on public service. She set up special support project on life planning and Chinese Language learning for EM children.
In order to promote an inclusive society with multi-cultural background, she launched pioneer project in school and shared her experiences to people of different backgrounds. She advocates the mainstreaming of EMS, so that mainstream service units could serve them more effectively. Furthermore, she pays much emphasis on empowerment of her service users to participate in current affairs and voice their opinions. Karrie knows that social inclusion is a long road as it involves fundamental changes in attitude, sense of value, policy, research and matching service. She hopes more concern from the society can be encouraged in order to foster inclusion.