Photo courtesy: Jordan Young. Retrieved from abc.net.au
Excerpt from abc.net.au
Hui Shan carries an umbrella to work every day and it is not to protect herself from the rain — or even from the sun.
The 38-year-old carries it to protect herself from assault and abuse.
“It’s really sad to carry something but it make me feel more secure if I have it,” Ms Shan said.
Ms Shan was born in a small town near Shanghai in China.
At her mother’s urging, she decided to learn English — despite her own desire to learn Japanese.
She honed the language during a stint in England before moving with her husband to Australia in 2019.
Every day, she travels the 10 or so kilometres from her home in Sandy Bay to her office in Hobart’s northern suburbs.
She parks several hundred metres away, wraps her fingers tightly around her umbrella and begins a long and fearful walk to work.
