The flat destined to become the Diversity Hub by Christian Action in Chungking Mansions was featured in a big article in the South China Morning Post (SCMP):
“Today, the once-neglected, 550 sq ft, three-bedroom flat on the 17th floor of Chungking Mansions has been transformed into a multifunctional space run by Christian Action, a charity that has served the vulnerable in Hong Kong for nearly 40 years. Known as the Diversity Hub, it serves ethnic minorities and is adjacent to Christian Action Centre for Refugees, which offers humanitarian assistance, social services and a welcoming space for Hong Kong’s estimated 15,000 asylum seekers, mostly from South and Southeast Asia and Africa.
The centre’s ambition has long outstripped its physical space. Asylum seekers who find themselves in Chungking Mansions – a whirring hive of shops, guest houses and flats labelled by Chinese University anthropologist Gordon Mathews as “the ghetto at the centre of the world” – squeeze into the building’s tiny lifts to make their way up for everything from hot food to language lessons and music sessions inside a warren of small rooms spread between the top and penultimate levels.”
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