Sydney has been ranked the third worst city in the world for making new friends. Here's how two women did it.
Businesswoman Faith Tan came to Australia from China's Guangdong province in 2004 with two teenage children. Soon after, she would face a life-threatening illness.“I had no family here except my two children, and I faced six rounds of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant alone. It was an extremely lonely time.”Ms Tan's property developer husband and extended family were still living in China, and her husband remains there for work.
Ms Tang migrated from Hong Kong in 1988. She and Faith plan fund-raising events with the Way In Network's 150 members. Ms Tang knows this all too well. She travelled a lonely road after coming to Australia with her husband and two small boys.“The food culture difference and then the language barrier was hard. And then without a social life, I found it so lonely.
Annie’s son is now following in his mother’s footsteps, hosting fundraising events through his Hong Kong-themed restaurants in Sydney.
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