Lockdown
has also helped me better appreciate situation of all my dear friends in prison!
And to think that CSD staff are part of team supervising my lockdown!!!Sat-Sun January 23-24, 2021
Jordan
lockdown - summary - from my daily blog & follow-up reports:
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Jan 22: My area of Jordan/Yau Ma Tei might be put under lockdown?!
Jan 23: My area under lockdown today and tomorrow!
Jan 24: Today is Day Two of a 48 hour lockdown of my area in Jordan. Yesterday I had test, got tag and food items. Was lovely to have more than an hour out in the beautiful sunshine. The whole operation went very smoothly and the staff (from Fire Dept, Police, Customs, Immigration and CSD) were most polite and friendly. My test (the 3rd in a week!) was negative - thank you Jesus! In response to a message from HKO1 yesterday morning I answered a few questions - leading to this report in Chinese. Lockdown experience has made me more appreciative of the situation in other countries where people have/had long lockdowns. English report on Jordan lockdown
Jan
24:
Lockdown
has also helped me better appreciate situation of all my dear friends in prison!
And to think that CSD staff are part of team supervising my lockdown!!!
After 2 days of being part of the Jordan lockdown, my neighbours and I were allowed to leave our homes and walk around the streets from about 6.30 last night. But I did not go outside the test area. Spent much time finding street sleepers then buying and delivering meals to them. And I met some of the friendly CSD staff who have been part of the team supervising/guarding the zone! *** Can leave zone
Update nearly two hours later: just when I was about to put this blog and myself to bed, I had a call from one of the kind CSD officers: could I use about 20 (staff) rice boxes they had left over? So I went and gave out the boxes to a number of homeless people, including a group of drug users who sleep on the steps of YMT clinic ... for which I had to register on leaving and re-entering the test area. Lunch boxes were top meals. Thank you CSD!
Jan 25: MercyHK's 2nd hand shop can be seen several times in this video of very early morning, Jan 25, just before gowned staff left the area
Jan 25: My article in today's Ming Pao newspaper has the topic: Hello from Jordan lockdown! Text without recording
Jan 26: When the Jordan lockdown rules allowed me to leave my home two nights ago around 6.30pm, I went for a walk around the restricted zone ... and located some street sleepers ... then bought and delivered rice boxes for them. But one sleeper, A-Ming, was on the other side of Woosong Street, just outside the restricted zone. So I asked a lady walking on the street outside the police boundary tape to take the rice box across the street to A-Ming. I did not know in advance she was a journalist. She very kindly posted this FB report, which has many comments mentioning MercyHK
Jan 27: Yesterday morning Simon, my social work assistant and I spent three hours with a journalist from HK01. His report is here. And a report by a journalist from HKCNews with whom Simon and I spent several hours yesterday is here
Last night I spent 3 and a half hours with a most dedicated team from StandNews. That report will be linked here when available.
Jan 31: StandNews FB report on my work for the homeless during Jordan lockdown - here with video (has had more than 240,000 views). Link at top of FB post opens photo report
Feb 12: RTHK "The Pulse" report on work of MercyHK (& ImpactHK) - here
Feb 22:
NowTV Online
Now
TV 
Youtube
Feb
26: HK Diocesan Youth Commission report on work of MercyHK - here
(FB) and here
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Feb
28: Report on work of MercyHK for homeless people by Yau-Tsim-Mong
district group: 
- here;
- here
March 9: CNS report about my work for the homeless. (Corrections: McDs does not give free meals to homeless; restaurant in apartment building gives out meals every day, not just Wednesday, and was doing so before I started renting rooms there)
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More reports coming ....
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Background and more info: www.mercyhk.org
