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My Experience At Zion Integrated Children And Youth Service Center Essay

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My only placement experience with another race is the time when I worked as a student social worker in Hong Kong. I worked at Zion Integrated Children and Youth Service Center. It was located at a used-to-be one of the biggest industrial areas called Kwun Tong, and with the price of human resources and rent kept growing, factories moved to mainland China, leaving empty rooms (Leung, 2008). Later, most of these empty factories were divided into small rooms and leased out as residential rooms, and because the living environment of these kind of rooms is extremely bad, tenants there are of lower socioeconomic status. Therefore, many Pakistani live there. Walking on the street there, I could see many Pakistani children running on the road, ignoring traffic lights. Some Pakistani boys would play football and crickets on the playground near the school, while girls would stay near the front door of their home, talking in Urdu. When I tried to talk to them first in English, most girls would just run away, or looked at their friends, saying that they don’t know, but when I talked to boys, I found they were more willing to talk to strangers. I was told by my college that most of them dropped out from school as their parents cannot afford sending all their children to school. Before then, I have never interacted with Pakistani before, and I literally know nothing about them. Given their living situation, I had the first impression that most of them were poor, and they remained

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