#impact Podcast: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Careers for Social Good · Regina Larko

Celebrating 8 years of #impact Podcast | Recording LIVE in the place where it all began

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Tina Mendoza says 350,000 migrant domestic workers live in Hong Kong, but Enrich has reached less than 1 percent.

1. Hashtag Impact marks its eight-year anniversary with a live recording in Hong Kong, the city where the podcast began. 2. Regina hosts the episode and thanks the WLAB audience, while guests include Jeff Rothmeyer of Impact HK and Love 21 Foundation, Chloe Woo from Lumifoche, Lynette Lam from Justice Center Hong Kong, Tina Mendoza from Enrich, Fred Chan from Enrich, Lena from Hong Kong Momtrepreneur, Luke from Lumifoche, Ivy, and Phoebus. 3. The episode asks what people can do right now to make Hong Kong a better place, and it uses the room itself as the answer. 4. WLAB is described as an initiative by the do and WeLog, a Hong Kong property developer, and the live recording is part of the Inclusive City Summit. 5. The summit focuses on the human side of city-making, with themes including aging, civil society, youth empowerment, gentrification, heritage, and the buffaloes in Lantau. 6. Jeff Rothmeyer says he came to Hong Kong as a primary school teacher and taught English for 13 years before starting Impact HK and Love 21 Foundation as a volunteer. 7. Jeff says Impact HK works with people experiencing homelessness, while Love 21 Foundation works with the Down syndrome and autistic community through sport, nutrition, and holistic family care. 8. Chloe Woo says Lumifoche uses biodiversity learning through music and arts, and she adds that founder Dr Ling Yun is both a musician and an executive leadership trainer. 9. Chloe argues that people do not need to be experts to contribute, because they can start with what they love and what they are good at. 10. Lynette Lam says Justice Center Hong Kong provides legal and social services to refugees and helps people navigate procedures needed to rebuild their lives. 11. Lynette describes saying goodbye to refugees who are resettling after years in Hong Kong, including a poet and translator working on Arthur Miller and a man who started a business with five other people after resettlement. 12. Lynette says the word “refugee” often conjures crisis and charity, but she wants people to see refugees as an opportunity for every place they go. 13. Tina Mendoza says Enrich empowers migrant domestic workers through financial education and personal development, and she notes that the organization has reached less than one percent of the estimated 350,000 workers in Hong Kong. 14. Tina links that gap to the city’s aging population and says Hong Kong is expecting more migrant domestic workers over the next 20 to 30 years. 15. Fred Chan says his nickname at work is “Garbage Man Chan,” and he describes minimizing food waste at home, recycling at the office, and taking materials to a green store in a pull cart. 16. Fred also says he exchanges recycling points for Indonesian noodles as thank-you gifts for migrant domestic workers and ambassadors who support Enrich. 17. Lena says Hong Kong Momtrepreneur supports mothers through an entrepreneurial fellowship, with cohorts of 12 to 15 mothers, and she says motherhood skills are powerful in the workplace. 18. Luke and Ivy both point to collaboration, neighborhood awareness, and practical action as ways to improve Hong Kong, while Phoebus says education matters for helping people think more about what they do. 19. The tone is collaborative, reflective, and live-audience driven, with many short speeches, handoffs, and direct questions from the host. 20. People interested in Hong Kong social impact, community work, and practical local action will get the most from this episode.

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A live anniversary episode linking care work, migrant domestic workers, and civic belonging in Hong Kong.

This anniversary episode stays close to Hong Kong and the people who keep it running. Recorded at WLAB, it blends community voices, gratitude, care work, migrant domestic workers, and the ordinary labor that helps a city hold together.

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