BPWHK’s Advocacy Chair, Judy Tam, gave an gender equality talk in Community Shaper 2030 Forum on 15th Aug 2020.
The Forum is a social innovation hackathon-based event, connecting talented youths to raise awareness on inclusion, accessibility, and other social issues. Judy highlighted the major local and global gender inequality landscape & emphasized advocacy opportunities to improve the wellbeings of women with regard to United Nations’s SDG Goals.
BPWHK, as a supporting organisation, is glad to see the community project being promoted on Taxi Advertisement around Hong Kong.
There are 5 of these taxies in town during the promotion period from 1 to 31 August 2020. If you see one around, feel free to take photos of it and share them in the comment.
Love of the Earth is targeting to raise awareness from the community to share our love and positive messages to all of us in facing COVID-19. We have “Love the Neighbor” to share care packs to help the needed protect themselves. We have “Love In the Air” to promote positive energy into our life.
The Hong Kong Association of Business and Professional Women Association (BPW Hong Kong) is hosting the Project GenE Storytelling Competition 2020. GenE stands for Generation Equality. This storytelling contest on women empowerment will give young female participants a valuable opportunity to learn more about reputable women figures and to excel their speaking skills.
How to participate:
Students will begin by participating in a preliminary round, in which they will submit a video delivering the story of a female heroine of their own choice and share the inspiration in Chinese/English.
The winners of the preliminary round will be able to participate in BPW Hong Kong’s Project GenE Storytelling Competition 2020 Hong Kong Final, to be held in Q3/4 2020. The Ceremony is an exciting opportunity for students to showcase their speaking skills in front of a panel of select successful celebrities in town and learn more about women empowerment in general.
Guidance on the storytelling:
Pick a female heroine you like (a historical figure / a fictional character / a real person).
Do your background research on the female heroine, then look into her impacts on women empowerment.
Draft the storyline and make sure the storyline is logical and clear.
Keep in mind, what you have learnt from the female heroine is crucial and you will share the inspiration.
We will have a conversation with Tiffany Ng, Centre-In-Charge of RainLily about sexual harassment in Hong Kong. Our President Lisa Fong will also be sharing her personal story. We will be covering:
✔️Common misconceptions about sexual harassment in Hong Kong ✔️Ways to handle sexual harassment encounters ✔️What kind of support we can seek from if we face sexual harassment ✔️Rainlily’s work on protecting and supporting sexual violence victims
Date: June 30, 2020 Time: 1pm to 2pm Guest: Tiffany Ng, Centre-In-Charge, RainLily Host: Joscelin Yeung, International Relationship Chair, BPW Hong Kong Platform: Zoom (Link to be shared) Registration:https://www.gobuddy.asia/event?et=bjtLAbDPJm6Prvag
Join us to equip ourselves with the knowledge about combating sexual harassment!
BPW Hong Kong’s second blog entry, written by our past president Sindy Leung and our Programme Chair Lena Wong, published by HKGoodPost:
家庭事業兩者兼備不是奢侈品 Let’s explore the best way to release female labour force!
// Since the epidemic, news of corporate failures, employee salary cuts, and dismissals have been emerging. The impacts on women’s employment is particularly severe as women are usually the main bearers of household chores. If adequate child care services are not guaranteed, even if the economy is reopened, many women will not be able to return to work or full-time jobs, and gender inequality will become more serious, which will also lead to more women and children at risk of poverty. The authors advocate for allocation of additional early childhood education sources from the government to this opportunity, so that Hong Kong women can choose the work that suit them best and achieve a balance between their career and family. //
Mentoring is one of the hallmarks of BPW. Beyond the classical model, of more experienced members mentoring those who are younger / early career — what are some more innovative models, including online platforms?
Our Programme Chair, Lena Wong and Immediate Past President, Sindy Leung are sharing with Chantal Fraser, Past President, BPW Trenton & District, Ontario, Canada. Join us at 8pm June 10 HKT to learn more about the mentoring models and programmes! See you then.
When you share your situation and feelings with others… Do you ever feel like you are NOT being heard?
When people you care about share their stories with you… Do you wonder how your response could impact them?
This program is for YOU! Join us at Unearth Your Empathic Potential Benefits: Well-being | Connection | Relationships | Personal Growth
In the program, you will:
· Learn more about empathy and the “empathy traps” that may hinder us in life · Self-reflect and discover personal insights to improve · Think about what you can do to expand empathic potential for yourself on individual level and corporate level
On May 30, 2020, our President, Lisa Fong & Immediate Past President, Sindy Leung shared on women empowerment on DragoNation Day, the first ever global Zoom event of DragoNation 匯龍坊!
Thank you for all our members and donors contributing to this good cause. 💪🏼🥰 The fund raised went into providing webcams and headsets to allow their social workers to move the 24/7 crisis hotline center☎️ to a virtual consultation🖥️. This setup helps expand the capacity of people RainLily can reach and support.
BPW Hong Kong also donated 1,388 face masks😷 of ASTM level 2 qualification (equiv. BFE and PFE >99%) to allow their staff to visit domestic violence victims in hospitals to provide intervention. Thank you for all your support in these difficult times!
We hope you are in good health, and BPW Hong Kong’s committee can’t wait to see all our sisters in-person, hopefully soon! 🤩❤️
The first BPWHK’s monthly blog entry (in Chinese) on HKGoodPost is published today. Our blog entry will be published every month from April 2020 to December 2020. Stay tuned!
taxies 
and share them in the comment. 
to share care packs to help the needed protect themselves. We have “Love In the Air” 
to promote positive energy into our life.
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