She recalls that the choice to call it a "literacy" course was a deliberate one, not aiming to mock these women as being "illiterate," but rather to bring to the attention of others the problems they face coming to a foreign country, where their native language skills are rendered all but useless, leaving them unable to read or understand what's written around them.
她回憶，當時刻意取名「識字班」，並不是嘲諷南洋姊妹不識字，而是她們自母國習得的語文和能力，到了異地卻瞬間無用武之地，故以「識字」一詞突顯她們在中文環境裡「看不見」也「不被看見」的困頓。