What we need

• Write feature articles for Pro Bono Partner Spotlight series - to celebrate the partnership and efforts of law firm partners on our education and casework pillars
• Write feature articles of our Hong Kong and Singapore Caseworker Mentorship Programme (e.g. 5 highlights/by the numbers)
• Conduct interviews with our migrant worker mentees on their takeaways from training programmes and write feature article of it
• Create a glossary list of simplified legal terms for social media caption
• Other ad-hoc writing tasks
• Proficiency in English is sufficient - Proficiency in Chinese, Tagalog and Bahasa is a bonus for the team as we'd appreciate local translation and appropriation
• All tasks are delegated based on your availability and capacity, you'll be working very closely with the team

Background

As a legal aid non-profit, we rely on the technical and financial support of law firm partners to run our education and casework programs. For casework, the pro bono lawyer will provide legal advice for migrant worker clients and represent them at court or negotiations. They will also conduct research on migrant worker laws or be mentors to our caseworkers of the migrant worker community. As a token of appreciation, we will do feature articles on their partnership with us. It will be accompanied by a social media post on LinkedIn and website. For education programmes, we train leaders from the migrant domestic worker (MDW) community on casework skills so they can help identify and support the claims of fellow workers. This act of sisters helping sisters is empowering, considering many MDWs spend their only day off of the week to train with us. We would like to celebrate their efforts and learn their takeaways from the programme – what is the most useful/interesting skills learnt, how they share these skills with their union. This will be accompanied by social media post for regional Facebook and website.

What we have

Writing and branding guidelines, design templates, and access to previous collaterals will be provided. Volunteers should have their own laptops with Microsoft Office products and the ability to communicate via web applications (email, calendar) throughout the day.

Why this is important

By sharing the collective impact made with our legal partners, we hope to inspire the legal community in Southeast Asia regions to partner with us and help more migrant workers in need, through supporting our casework and education programmes. By sharing the takeaways of our mentees from the training programme, we hope to build trust with the frontline community and encourage more migrant workers to sign up for our casework training sessions in the future. Overall, we hope to demystify the concepts of law and the work we did through impactful storytelling. We hope to engage with our stakeholders better and encourage more to join our mission of bringing justice home for migrant workers.

Project Period

30 Aug 2024 - 31 Dec 2024

Location

Remote (with in office work in Hong Kong if interested)

Team Project

You’ll be working with other awesome volunteers.