Home Care Apparel Company Limited is a social enterprise established in 2017 which designs and sells adaptive clothing made by local women and retirees. It also educates the public about the proper way of caring with a view to alleviating the inconvenience experienced by the elderly and the disabled as well as to reducing the burden imposed on caregivers.
30
Mar
Entrepreneurship for Social Good Series: From Social Worker to Social Entrepreneur
Student
Staff
Ms Swing Lau
30 Mar 2022
4:30pm-6:00pm
Online Zoom
Introduction
Change is hard; but you don't know how far you can go until you take the first step to change.
In this seminar, Ms Swing Lau, the founder of Home Care Apparel Company Limited, will share her journey from being a social worker to becoming a social entrepreneur. What drove her to make such a change? What challenges does she face when running a one-man band business? Are there any inspiring stories behind her designing adaptive clothing for the elderly and the disabled? Under Swing’s guidance, the participants will even learn to put themselves in the shoes of the elderly and the disabled, and try to design adaptive clothing on their own.
Through a series of online seminars, TriAngle Co-working Space endeavours to inspire students with entrepreneurial and social innovation spirit. Speakers with different expertise and experiences will be brought together to empower students to grow into future social entrepreneurs.
Cantonese-English interpreting is provided by Inter-Link, a HKBU student-led interpreting company.
Student interpreters: CHAU Man Wai Tiffany, CHUNG Wai Ha Kate
Supervisor: Dr. Janice PAN
Student registration link: https://sles.hkbu.edu.hk/student/register/activity/CCL21220582
Staff registration link: https://chtl.hkbu.edu.hk/regworkshop/login.php