#impact Podcast: Improving lives of vulnerable young women with Bowie Lam, Teen’s Key
Earlier this year I had the pleasure to follow my co-host duties and record a podcast episode with Bowie Lam, Founder and CEO of Teen’s Key for #impact Podcast Season 5.
In #impact Season 5, we sit down with stakeholders working across numerous sectors and industries, to find a common language to address, measure, and demonstrate the impact that they are making in tackling the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Tune in to hear from Bowie Lam at Teen’s Key and their crucial work around SDG 5 Gender Equality.
For the show notes and all the information about this podcast episode head over to #impact's website.
In this episode you learn:
How Bowie broke her own stigma around sex workers and how a serial killer terrorizing Hong Kong’s sex industry influenced her future work with Teen’s Key (4:24)
How many sex workers that she works with are just ordinary women with many ordinary dreams (7:56)
How there is little support around unwanted pregnancies for young mothers and how Teen’s Key supports them and provides them with a safe space to foster their leadership skills (13:09)
How Teen’s Key supports women who have gone through an abortion with a hotline for women going through a crisis, public hospitals have stopped non-emergency services including abortions (11:38)
Teen’s Key’s sexual health education program (19:44)
How sex education is not compulsory in schools and how the education bureau only provides a “soft guideline” from 1997 and still have information about ICQ (23:09)
How (religious local) schools rather educate children about abstinence than sexual health education (23:40)
Why Teen’s Key provides free HIV and Syphilis rapid testing (31:53)
How we need to give a safe space to women from all walks of life and help them to make smart decisions in the future (34:40)
How school closures are affecting pregnant teenagers for the worse (41:47)
SDG 5: Gender Equality and how Teen’s Key fits into it (46:34)