ASsist- Empowerment through Exchange aims at resolving the onerousness of the Unified Screening Mechanism (USM) by providing information sessions for new asylum seekers and compiling a database for duty lawyers. It strives to streamline the USM process for the stakeholders and to enhance public awareness about the plight of asylum seekers.
Objective:
- To improve asylum seekers’ knowledge about the USM process, ascertained by participants attaining 80% correct in a short refection quiz postworkshop;
- To strengthen duty lawyers’ confdence and ability in substantiating USM claims by 20%, ascertained through a pre- and post- workshop quantitative survey; and
- To enhance the Hong Kong general public’s awareness about the plight of asylum seekers in Hong Kong by reaching 1000 people within 12 months at our workshops determined by actual attendance.
Team members:
- Bin Azhar Abdullah, The University of Hong Kong
- Chan Jing Lin Stephanie, The University of Hong Kong
- Leung Hoi Yan Holly, The University of Hong Kong
- Mak Lai Hang, The University of Hong Kong