The Chinese Employment Project attended the Chinese Healthy Living Centre’s AGM on 10 June in Maryhill Community Hall. During the meeting, Lily Lee, a CEP client, delivered a touching speech based on her personal experience, which truly reflected the barriers and difficulties faced by the Chinese community in terms of employment.

Ms Lee had a few unsuccessful job applications in the past due to lack of mainstream support, lack of knowledge about mainstream employability services and poor English ability. She lost her confidence and found out it really hard to integrate into mainstream employment.
With the help of the Chinese Employment Project she got a job working as a home carer for Glasgow City Council. She said, “I really appreciated the help and support of the Chinese Employment Project. It did not only help me finding a job, more importantly it helped me regain my confidence. I just completed my training, from which I learnt quite a lot. Nowadays I take an English class in the afternoon whilst I work in the morning. Also I started driving lessons, as this job requires me to drive. I was feeling very down and staying at home all day doing nothing before. But now, I feel I am full of energy and a lot of work is waiting for me to achieve. I hope this project will continue to support more people like me”.

If you would like finding out more about the project, please contact Mr Shian Xu at 07984976400.