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:

1. Pick a female heroine you like (a historical figure / a fictional character / a real person).
2. Do your background research on the female heroine, then look into her impacts on women empowerment.
3. Draft the storyline and make sure the storyline is logical and clear. 
4. Keep in mind, what you have learnt from the female heroine is crucial and you will share the inspiration.

For further details, please visit https://bpwhkgene.carrd.co/. Enquires to bpwhkgene@gmail.com .

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. //

Check this out at : https://www.hkgoodpost.com/2020/06/01/%e5%ae%b6%e5%ba%ad%e4%ba%8b%e6%a5%ad%e5%85%a9%e8%80%85%e5%85%bc%e5%82%99%e4%b8%8d%e6%98%af%e5%a5%a2%e4%be%88%e5%93%81/

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. 

The event is FREE of charge. Please register here: https://zoom.us/…/regist…/vpMldeqtrD4s2dtTRfCMwhpRULJ7vfgGBg

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

[Speaker]
Mya Kwan, Accelerated Learning Certified Facilitator & Course Designer

[Event details]
Theme/Topic: Unearth Your Empathic Potential
Date: June 27 Saturday
Time: 11:00-13:00
Platform: Zoom
Format: Interactive workshop and CAMERA ON!

Register at: https://www.gobuddy.asia/event?et=FGzOtw1x9PHEESwx&fbclid=IwAR3RUzG3AM7X_K0yZAdMN-c1NyLj3AZpOSwSiZNupGKroQl-Pb8G88x7jHQ

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! 🤩❤️

#RainLily #donationmatch #COVID19#BPWHK #YoungBPWHK #BPWcopeswithCOVID19 #youngBPWinaction

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!

HKGoodPost blog site: https://www.hkgoodpost.com/

Bloggers’ page (featuring BPWHK): https://www.hkgoodpost.com/blogger/

April blog entry from BPWHK (23-4-2020): 

「疫情中，雙職家庭分工從新出發」

UN Women warned of a growing shadow pandemic of violence against women, with numbers likely to increase beyond the 243 million recorded in the past 12 months globally.

BPW Hong Kong is proud to be supporting RainLily, under the Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women (ACSVAW), to continue to provide victims of sexual violence 24-hour professional crisis intervention and their Sexual Violence Helpline during the COVID-19 pandemic. BPW Hong Kong will match the first HK$5,000 of your donation to this cause. 👛

Please join us in supporting vulnerable women in this tumultuous time – spread the word!

*Please provide your legal full name in your donation for finance purposes.

https://rainlily.org.hk/eng/servicehttps://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/4/statement-ed-phumzile-violence-against-women-during-pandemic

We are proud to have the opportunity today to celebrate all the amazing women and men in the past century that have stood up and devoted themselves to the fight for women’s rights and world peace. This torch has now been passed on to our generation.

As individuals, we are each responsible for our own thoughts and actions every day. We can actively choose to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions, improve situations and celebrate women’s achievements. What we do can have an impact on our larger society and pave the way to create a gender equal world, and more. This is exactly what the theme for International Women’s Day 2020 this year is about – #EachForEqual.