Illuminating challenges

Festival sheds light on marginal social groups and the obstacles they face, Cheng Yuezhu reports.

Amid an industrial area lying in Shenzhen's Longgang district, South China's Guangdong province, packed with factories and migrant workers' residences, the Green Rose Social Work Service Center is a second home to many female workers and their children.

Kids often spend time there after school, doing homework inside the center's little classroom, or playing in the activity space, filled with picture books, toys and a donated secondhand projector to watch movies on.

The organization was originally established as a platform to empower female migrant workers with artistic means of self-expression, and help them improve their living conditions — especially those suffering from occupation-related diseases, injuries or workplace discrimination.