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Follow us to a buzzing community event at Dream Impact, a new social innovation hub in Hong Kong where Regina bumped into Dr Jamie Chiu, one of our featured guests of Season 1 of #impact Podcast.

Jamie Chiu, Founder of The Brightly Project, is also featured in Episode 6 of #impact Podcast

Driving social innovation in Hong Kong. 

As a clinical psychologist and counsellor, Jamie is driving social innovation in her own rights. She has worked with hundreds of at-risk teens struggling with depression and anxiety. She spent her doctorate years researching the factors of youth depression and suicide and investigating the effectiveness of school-based mental health programs.

Jamie started The Brightly Project a bit over a year ago, with the vision to support teens struggling with depression. She also encourages their parents to learn about, and connect with professional therapists, psychologists, and counsellors. Jamie initiated the #IWTK (I want to know) programme, an anonymous question-asking platform for teenagers where youngsters receive personalised answers and advice from healthcare professionals.

In this short episode, you hear how Jamie’s Suicide Prevention programme has caught attention all over Hong Kong.

“Believe in yourself”, Jamie shares advice she would give her younger self.

It is a community of changemakers, made up of people with a vision to make an impact just like Jamie, who Dream Impact wants to see thrive in Hong Kong and beyond. Dream Impact set up in Hong Kong in autumn of last year and their vision is to create collective social impact through their business and develop an innovative, resilient network.

Social innovation is at the heart of their mission.

Taking part in their buzzing community event and feeling the spirit of a thriving community of changemakers eager to collaborate for even more social innovation and impact made us realise that the power of GOOD is everywhere.

We are very excited to see the impact of their work grow and were thrilled to catch up with Dorothy Lam, Community Leader at Dream Impact who shares what we could all do to make the world a better place.

Regina Larko catching up with Dorothy Lam (right), Community Leader at Dream Impact

Scroll all the way up and hit play to hear Dorothy’s answer and to get a feel for the buzz and energy at Dream Impact’s community event bringing together more than 300 people in the social innovation sector in Hong Kong.

Our learnings from this episode. Have something to add? Get in touch with us here!

• Sometimes you need to provoke people to get the best reactions.
• Believing in your cause is important, but so is believing in yourself.
• The energetic team at So in So Good are amazing networkers. They co-organised this community event with Dream Impact and keep surprising us with their brilliant ideas who to connect within the social innovation space. How lucky that we got to interview them for one of our first episodes. Listen here.
• People have the most amazing answers to that one big questions “What could everyone do right now to make the world a better place.” Scroll all the way up and hear for yourself.

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Check out our full interview with Dr Jamie Chiu where she shares how her struggles as a teen have inspired her to set up The Brightly Project. Listen here.