Jeffrey Andrews is the first Hongkonger with Indian roots to become a qualified registered social worker in the city.
Andrews says he decided to serve his community out of frustration about his experiences with discrimination and seeing how ethnic minorities are treated in Hong Kong, despite its claim to be "Asia’s World City". A decade into his career, Andrews remains a proud Hongkonger, using his fluent Cantonese and unique perspective to work with refugees from the Christian Action drop-in centre based at Chungking Mansions. The warren of shops, cheap guesthouses and eateries in Tsim Sha Tsui is where Andrews used to mingle with triad gang members in his wilder years growing up in Hong Kong.
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