Reconnecting people to their home village
HakkaYin is a trusted community for Hakka families, built around the village your family came from. See it, share it, and keep it alive in your own voice.
Getting started
How it works
Sign up / Log in
It's simple: just an email. No passwords, we send you a link to log in, or you can use your Google login.
Find your village
Search the map, or start your village if it isn't there yet.
Join your village
Send a request and the people running HakkaYin will approve you. It's a small community, so a real person checks every request.
Once you're in, you can take part as little or as much as you like: see who else is there, share how the family is doing, or just look around first.
What you can do
Built around your village
Five things that matter most, each one simple enough for anyone in the family to use.
See your home village from above
The hills, the fields, the houses, exactly as they are. Find your family's home on the satellite map, with homes pinned by the people who belong there.
Home pins are for members only.
Photos pinned to the places they remember
A family photo means more when it's pinned to the exact spot it was taken: the old house, the school, the well. A living photo album of the village, growing with every member.
Every photo is pinned by someone from that village.
Say it in Hakka, not just type it
Hakka is spoken more than it is written. So instead of typing, just record: tell your village how the family is doing, in your own voice, in your own words. They can listen any time, like a message from home.
Not sure how? A son, daughter or grandchild can help you record it, or record it for you. Voice notes are private to your village.
Build your family tree
Add your family and link who's who. Invite family to join straight from the tree. Start with yourself, then add your parents and grandparents, so the family story is written down and kept.
Only family you link, and people in your village, can see it.
Where Hakka people are now
From Hong Kong to the UK, and everywhere in between, a growing picture of where the Hakka have settled, and where they came from. Add your pin and become part of it.
Your country always shows. Add your city to appear there too, always without your name.
For the whole family
Technology shouldn't keep anyone out
If the person you love can't use a phone easily, you can be their hands: set up their account, help them record a voice note, pin their photos.
One tap for them. A few minutes for you. That's how the village stays connected.
Discover
Villages you've never seen
Some Hakka villages are remote. Some are restricted. Most have never been photographed properly or written about online.
HakkaYin is changing that. One village, one family, one photo at a time. See a village you've never heard of, and learn the history your family never told you.
Safe by design
Built on trust, not algorithms
Checked by real people
Every join request is reviewed by a real person before you're in.
Your details stay private
Contact details stay inside your village unless you choose to share more.
Started by volunteers
Villages are looked after by volunteers from that village, and we're always glad to hear from people who can help.
No feeds, no noise
Just your village and your family. Anything reported is handled by a real person.
Why HakkaYin?
Because the language, and the places, deserve to be heard
Hakka is spoken more than it is written, and it's being lost as the older generation passes on. HakkaYin is a way for families to stay connected across the world, and for the language to keep being heard.
Many Hakka villages sit in remote valleys, and some are hard to reach or restricted. Most have never been properly recorded online. Their history lives in people's memories and in old family photos. HakkaYin is where those memories come together, village by village, so the places are seen and remembered.
And many Hakka people rarely get back to their home village. Some left decades ago and can't easily return; some were born far away and have never seen it. HakkaYin is a window home: see the village as it is now, who's still there, what's changed and how things are going, from anywhere in the world.