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Empowering the Underprivileged One Family at a Time | Elli Fu | TEDxLingnanUniversity


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everyone it’s really really exciting to

be there

I just need my friend a last year Emily

I just gotta work very Hong Kong last

year so happy to see you again

and then Frank’s MUC inviting me to John

tags for a speech and also fans Kara to

introduce me carrots Mia right thanks um

this is I’m Ellie um let me show this

picture I’m just a person just like you

but I’m a bit different I went to the

open house when I’m three years old so

this is my picture so you see who’s me

did you plan it so actually everyone

every time I take photo I will stand in

the middle so I just met someone to know

me so do you see that who is me

and also the top it’s all in the middle

in anthem keep smile that is me um my

father why I go to open house because my

father is autistic he can take care my

brother and me and sometimes she didn’t

fitness so I always go to the final like

a search foot in the ribbon rubbish bin

I think they just try before to pick up

the foot all struggling for from the

word speed I mean you never say before

but this in Hong Kong doesn’t want what

I stand here I just searching for in the

rubbish bin and one day when I was one

foot in the ribbon wear boots bin and

then I see a social worker he found me

and talked to me and asked my one

question is like a little girl

why do you pick up the food while you’re

eating the food at the bin and I replied

that I was hungry and she crying and

happy after that I’d taken away to the

oven house and living in the open house

was the bad experience do you have some

friend living in our house no there was

only rules rules and rules and I just

phrased a very strict house mother

everyday but there was I would be

trained to be very good south discipline

from today no in the open house no one

hug me and tell me bedtime story so this

is quite difficult for me I live in

northern house but in that timing I

think alone why I’ll be there why I stay

here Oh Bonnie and why I looking here is

so terrible but the house mother teach

me a lot

I remember one day this is the first two

three days like I didn’t want to it I

think is pretty 46 hours so how do you

feel in front of six hour you didn’t get

through it how do you feel angry right

yeah and I just think if I have parents

I think will be like that but up to

there have you hungry I just loved it

all and now the house mother I’m hungry

and did you guess what she doing

she waiting for me she know I will love

the doll then she hopped me and talked

to me I know you’re hungry

I prepared a fourth in kitchen it’s for

me is very touching because she need to

train me and when I when I eat in the

kitchen she told me you now in oven

house you need to take it by yourself no

one to care you you need to stand strong

and I just listen what she talking after

that day how do you get and it every day

what she make I just finished other foot

so until now I’m very strong

self-discipline I don’t I know what I

need to do him I’m very strong planning

and grown she teached me a lot but I

still and did not understand why

everything open house why I was fool

I still angry to the open house

I still angry towards the world also

towards myself I just think I was poor

and the world only but there was no one

there and I could only realign myself so

I was depressed I did I did not see hope

in the world and I have tried to suicide

free time after the open house I

returned home and then start to work

very hard my mind was for money money

I just feign money can buy everything

that wanna meet but I was not happy at

when I was empty and still want to kill

myself

I stopped to know for reasons why I was

still depressed I spent almost five

years to look for the secret of the

happiness I have changed because of

relationship I think you all have a lot

of best friend right so I think it’s

very important the relationship I need

to talk to your friend so relationships

very important because of love your

friends will love you and support you so

what is very important because I feel

the love I remember that from their

house model from the halkan house and

from the teacher and most important from

God Oh at them have hope in in my mind

because I failed a lot and they gave me

support by walking along with me

listening to me and they accept me as I

am right so I think you have a friend

it’s very important to listen listening

to you and accept you are Who I am I was

the girl with problem and anger inside

and when I change my attitude my

behavior and share love with others when

I began that how do you feel how do you

guess my emptiness was gone and my

behavior it’s very a lot of people

saying me I’m a blind person because I

talked to you each other I chair to the

others and then I feel happy I never

feel alone and then I try to use my life

to share to the others because that I

want to open a charity gala I want to

help under perforation family and walk

along with the pool I want to share

three words with you that describe the

change process this is my parents edge

what I have it’s okay

the first work I would like to share as

well oh the first thing that need to be

changed as well as I understand the poor

value because I was one of them that’s

just how they faint so you must remember

the poor always say that I’m poor you

are rich I need to help did you listen

before Yeah right I’m the poor you know

rich you come to we need to take care

for me and so I have to take what this

what is mine so I need to take it I’m

pitiful so you need to take care me

yes well loom will not help the present

but make them more depressed and also

the environment also a fret the world is

too

what a victim the most is their family

different family members may have

different values so I never work only

with the individual I work with the

family is a system so that families I

supported them about six years so I

would tell them the story what I want to

tell them is that even though you are

poor you can contribute in your own way

and also you need to know that your pool

so that you can understand your

situation better I want them to be

grateful to works happy how they receive

because it’s not entitled to you by

changing their values they can see the

world differently

let me tell your story that is my chart

you first member zero zero one

her name’s life she’s a single mother of

two when i first time to meet her she

just pick up the carbon box at the three

have you seen boy and some soap all just

so yeah she’s only 14 years old she pick

him I told became the first member of

charity and camrec early to pick up the

phone because he was cool and she won a

lot of material support her and then I

just told her you need to share because

it will make you happy she didn’t

understand as well because you feel not

enough but I slowly change them because

I spend a lot of time to counseling her

now she’s the one chillin at jail I

regularly at the same time

I would get to know her children and

invite them to our youth group the

daughter has been exposed to a more

positive and proactive out of you and

the weather system as notably more

outgoing and cheerful well well he was

the first step to change the sir

second world share well you cannot be

changed without sharing I want to share

love and I want them to share up to the

others you spend time with people

outside working out there are no

shortcuts if you have friends and close

friend how do you do what I do in the

night time spend time with them right

it’s very important

no shortcut you need to spend time with

the pool and other people and then many

professional out there but they only

working during the office hours when you

love someone you spend time and do pain

together

and the future my husband Adams here

he’s a person and we were going to move

in together with some youth probably for

living training program I think at least

12 to 20 kids you together living with

me it’s very exciting right call them

you Frank it’s not easy but today up to

you do this II think there John is ad

she only 21 years old and then to give

me a long time when you share your life

together the people will feel that you

are walking with them it’s very

important remember like their mother

and then one day and to tell you why I’m

so close with life one day she had

misunderstanding between me and she’s

the string I betrayed her and she didn’t

answer me and she don’t want to see me

and I go to there to her subsidy wider

bank and locked the door and I know she

inside but she didn’t respond me so I

get a first year was cold

I didn’t spit up but she know that I’m

standing at the front door and this

happen hours she didn’t open the door

and I feel very disappointed that they

were sad and I back to home and start

crying I don’t want our relationship to

end so how do you guess is it finished

no she called me in the midnight and

speak crying we both crying at least one

hours she just think she want to tell me

something she wanted told me who was she

thinking

this is he didn’t know how to say that

so when in the midnight he feel all the

memory how I did him in her life she

feels love so when she called me we

didn’t say anything

we just crying after the day that

recalls relationship she just me like

him for example and maybe I’m her mother

she

you only 30 years old and I just strange

very surprised and happy to see that

story and then there’s just why I would

like to do like the whole family is very

important so is the light is open

herself and willing to share her houses

a harsher with me but that story didn’t

end because I want to do more and his

found in her family I see lights

daughter daughter now she’s about like I

forget how how old she now I think 14

right 14 years old and I first meet her

she only my years old she’s not a smart

girl but she’s very hard-working

so P through several years I just let

her have a tutor to teaching her in

study and now I see got into the pen one

secondary school so for life is very

happy because the whole family change

and then I just only share the love to

that family now line and I see is very

strong volunteer FG life living out the

shelling to the others it’s very

important to put and the final work let

me um that’s all my teenage anyway so I

can show you the teenage what I training

them and then the third and final work

is a dream so I would like to us is that

anyone have dream now just sitting here

in Ingham your recipe I think you have a

dream right yeah

Germany is very important so for my

dream I set up

from 2012 I set up a charity it’s not

easy

use my own money to stab a turkey I take

care about 850 family unit and some

circle and near area now I have three

Center and I took it over 200 to teenage

my dream come true I take care to prove

community and then it’s very important

dream is very important when the poor

weather is changed to be more positive

and healthy they are able to create a

future for themselves like also have a

dream now I would tell you later the

Empowered aims to plan and to proactive

to works themselves for life daughter I

see she want to be a doctor showed that

she could help others when the person

has dream there’s this possibility right

it’s very important they have the sense

of responsibility and motivation to work

towards their goals helping a dream like

a having a direction the pool will have

the motivation to improve the current

situation so remember where is the first

word values how do ii work I’ll share

how did it for good dream and I just a

normal person with a problematic past

yes with training wellas sharing love

and dreaming for future anyone can be a

change maker just like you and me can

talk to your neighbor

anyone can be a change maker can you

talk to your labor anyone can be a

change maker so like you and me thank you everyone

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