PINAY DH PHOTOJOURNALIST

Meet ZYZA CRUZ BACANI, A Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong for 9 years. She moonlights as photographer in down town Hong Kong during her day-off. She observed that Hong Kong is one of the most racist city in the world. especially when it comes to domestic helpers.

But the younger generation according to her were nicer, maybe because they were raised by domestic helpers from the Philippines. Zyza also volunteered to work at Bethune House Migrant Women's Refuge, a shelter for abused migrant workers were she documented their plight.

MORE ABOUT ZYZA CRUZ BACANI

A) Hong Kong Life with Camera / Zyza Cruz Bacani / TEDxHongKongED

B) "Photographer.DH" / Howie Severeno / I-Witness

MAY THE STORY OF ZYZA CRUZ BACANI BECOME A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION TO OUR COUNTRYMEN WORKING ABROAD AND TO OTHER MIGRANT WORKERS AS WELL.

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