Guide Dogs

Report The Goal Hong Kong is a world-renowned economic metropolis, and famous for its efficiency and well-serviced community. However, it has over 7 million inhabitants living in an area of 1,000 square kilometers, and the population is still growing. Projections established by China's Census, and their statistics show the population could be increased by another 2 million over the next 30 years[overpopulation.com, 2013]. The majority of the increase, 93%, is caused by immigrants[overpopulation.com, 2013]. China allows just about 55,000 citizens from the mainland to cross the border to Hong Kong annually[overpopulation.com, 2013]. In this congested and crowded city, even normal citizens have trouble travelling. It is even more inconvenient for a person with visual impairment to move from place to place. According to The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (DHCAS), visual impairment refers to the loss of visional function that cannot be healed or compensated through medication, surgical operation, or ordinary optical lenses such as glasses[2]. Visual impairment has proved to be one of the major disabilities in Hong Kong, with over 122,600 (18% of the entire population) suffering from visual disabilities [1].In Britain, incomes of people with disabilities are 20% lower than an average, non-disabled individual at working-age, and their employment rates are only 50% of theirs[3]. Proceeding into a more specific view of the statistics, the employment rate is a lot worse for the visually impaired than most of the other groups of disabilities, with over 75% of them unemployed at working age[5]. The data above may be snap-shot recordings, but they have a sufficient trend to show visual impairment is a heavy issue. They will have difficulties travelling, moving around, and potentially less social and economical opportunities to thrive. Through a pilot research in a form of a series of interviews conducted upon