Letter+to+the+Government

For our long term action we decided to send a letter to the government trying to persuade them to shorten the waiting list for public housing here is the letter we are to going to send to him with our 2,000 thousand signature (fingers crossed). Anyway here is the letter:

Dear Hong Kong Government,

I’m Ruby Rankin from Hong Kong Academy. I am a member of a team with four grade five girls who are undertaking an action research assignment on homelessness in Hong Kong.

My group has been studying homelessness for 2 months now and decided we want to help. I find this topic very serious and something needs to be done, our group has recently been to the Hands Of Love soup kitchen in Nam Cheng and we hope to continue. As I was working in the soup kitchen I felt that I needed to help homeless people in the long run. So I decided to write a letter to you, while I was looking into how the government looks after homeless people I was shocked to find out that three hundred and twenty thousand people are on the waiting list for public housing. We found out this information from SoCO (Society for Community Organization). We hope that you will shorten the waiting list because people should not live on the street, it is not a fair way of life. Our group has spread lots of awareness about this issue and have asked people to sign if they agree. We have 2000 signatures from people who are also concerned about homelessness in Hong Kong.

We hope you recognize that this is an incredibly serious issue. Please take what we have written under consideration and shorten the waiting list for public housing.

Yours Sincerely,

Ruby Rankin and The Hong Kong Community

__Reflection__
To get people to sign the petition our group has gone to classes to present our action to them and how they can help.Our most recent presentation was at the middle/high school, whilst waiting for our names to be called on stage we were all a bit tense, but as soon as we started the presentation all of our jitters were gone because all of the people there were incredibly supportive and gave us their full atention. So far we have done 6 presentations all around the school and have planned 2 more. We feel that this will help us achive our goal of 2,000 signatures!