How migrant Filipinos make their voice heard in Hong Kong's civic affairs

"Kasi yung mga anak namin dito ipinanganak or born in Hong Kong," Bishop Vallo told ABS-CBN News. "It's our suffrage right na talagang dapat mong bigyan ng pansin sapagkat bukas ng kabataan ang nakasalalay dito."

A large part of Bishop Vallo's active involvement in the Philippine-Hong Kong affairs that intertwine can be attributed to the concerns stemming mostly from the JLGHK congregation, a church reliant on its largely overseas Filipino workers who are mostly domestic helpers in Hong Kong. When the final election results came through at lunch time on November 25, 347 pan-democrats, which included mostly pro-democracy independent candidates, won in 17 out 18 districts in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, the sweeping defeat of pro-establishment camps was left with 60 seats.For Jan Gube, a post-doctoral Fellow of the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at The Education University of Hong Kong, the issue has something to do with identity.

Sham is the convener of the Civil Human Rights Front whose group has been responsible for some of the biggest rallies in Hong Kong in recent years. Though much of the protests movements have been without a specific leader. Local media reported Sham was attacked with hammers by at least four non-ethnic Chinese suspects in Mong Kok in October.

"I think for a fact we know that at some point, they will leave Hong Kong. No matter how long they've been working in Hong Kong, they'll still leave Hong Kong. So, to many of them, maybe Hong Kong is not necessarily their home in that sense...in a sense to what Hong Kong Filipino youth would really look at it. So perhaps the recent protests might not connect with them in a deeper level," said Gube.

Kapai was part of a recently held forum "Ways forward: Let's talk and listen" organized by The Forward Alliance and held in Wanchai. "Sa atin, too much legalistic...mga abogado, everything. Dito simple lang. Within 5 hours, 3 hours, manual pa yun na bilangan. In front of the public pero nagagawa nilang bilangin nang maayos, lantaran, open yung balota mo, makikita yung picture ng mga kandidato. Talagang makikita mo dun na transparent," said Bishop Vallo. "Talagang tiyak na makikita mo na saka yung kandidato on the spot, nag bo-bow talaga," he added.

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