在这些车间中，参与者接受培训并从事低门槛的工作，获得可观的收入。车间还配备有托儿所，以使乡村妇女在工作时不必担心照料孩子。

       随着跨境电商的发展，我们的受益人的产品被销往海外市场，并为他们带来收入，用于补充教育、衣物和其他家庭开支。

       这些车间背后是来自爱心企业的捐赠和投资，以及各级政府的支持。作为一家社会组织，友成基金会提供其知识、经验和平台，形成集合影响力；不仅惠及人民，更促进建立一个新的社会生态系统，在其中社会价值将是每个人的最终追求。

       谢谢。

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Distinguished President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen，I am Ling Hui from YouChange China Social Entrepreneur Foundation. We recognize that all people are free to pursue their economic, social, and cultural development.

And we are currently working with public and private sectors to build handicraft workshops and provide employment in the remote region of Guizhou Province，southern China. People in this region, especially women and seniors, used to live below poverty line now lifted above the line.

In these workshops, participants are trained to engage in low-threshold labours and gain decent monthly payments. These workshops are equipped with child-care centre so that women can bring their children to work.

With the development of e-commerce, their products are sold to oversea markets and bring income for them to pay for education, clothes and other household expenses.

Behind these workshops are the donation and investment from the private sector, as well as support from governments at all levels. YouChange foundation, as a social organization here, provides its knowledge, experience, and platform to form a collective impact that not just benefit the people, but facilitate the establishment of a new social eco-system in which social value is the ultimate pursuit of every member of the society.

Thank you.

       在未来3年内，“星绣未来”计划将赋能超过1000名女性非物质文化传承人，针对性培养其中的50名产业领袖。该计划还将孵化15个农村非遗合作社，开发并生产超过90种不同的文化产品和3个品牌，为参与者实现15%的收入增长。

       在参加该计划之前，燕婷是一名大学生，曾前往贵州拍摄关于马尾绣的纪录片。这期间，她爱上了这门艺术，并最终爱上了制作它们的人。她嫁给了马尾绣国家传承人的儿子。燕婷、她的丈夫和婆婆一起创办了一家公司，开发并生产结合现代美学和满足年轻人口味的绣品。然而，他们需要指导将产品带入更广阔的市场。在这个计划中，她能够表达自己对未来发展的担忧，并从专家和企业家同行那里得到建议。他们的公司一直稳步发展，并为300多名同村村民提供就业机会。

       在一个旨在赋能农村女性创业者的类似项目“香橙妈妈”中，我们还有另一个激励人心的人物。在加入该计划之前，杨树桢是一位苗族女子，在城市的闯荡中失意，并作为一个失败者返回家乡。她不受欢迎，不断受到批评和失望，她曾以为生活就这样结束了。然后树桢加入了“香橙妈妈”项目，她被女性领导力培训所震撼，因为她从未想过女性也能够取得伟大的成就。她在培训中完成了人生中第一次公开演讲；之后，她便成为同村女性的领袖。她们一起开展电商创业，制作和销售传统手工艺品，向东部发达地区的消费者销售。树桢甚至大胆尝试“村官”选举，并当选为村委会副书记。一个女人治理村庄，对于当地人还是第一次。

       阿昌族的尹春焕在“星绣未来”计划的共创工作坊中忍不住泪水。她说：“我们绣花女，正努力用我们粗糙的双手创造更好的生活。我所做的不仅仅是保护一门艺术，而是推广我们民族的文化。在专家的帮助下，我们的刺绣以各种形式进入主流市场，消费者非常喜爱产品和它们背后的文化。”

       随着信息通信技术在中国的广泛应用，我们获得了发现隐藏文化价值、连接边缘群体、并将他们不可思议的智慧和技能转化为经济效益的机会。友成在这条道路上做了一些相当成功的实验；但我相信这条路的终点将是一个每个社会成员，无论男女、少数民族还是多数民族，都能充分释放他们的创造力并享有被尊重和充实生活。

       谢谢。

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Distinguish guests, Ladies and Gentlemen:

I am Gui Yuqing from YouChange China Social Entrepreneur Foundation. Discovering the potential of ethnic minority people and their culture has been an essential part of our efforts in promoting rural development as well as the people’s right to development.

In the mountains of Southern China live an ancient ethnic group, the Shui people with the population about just 400 thousand. For over a thousand years, people of Shui have been making and preserving their traditional horsetail embroidery. This particular form of art uses hard-textured horsetail to weave daily-use goods that last centuries. Embroidery pieces are passed from generation to generation with the blessing of the ancestors, a special connection that travels through time. But nowadays more and more people chose to leave for livelihoods in the cities, and their horsetail embroidery pieces are left behind.

Horsetail embroidery is only one of many intangible cultural heritages that are fading away as we speak. The last few decades have proven that progress in the sense of western modernization and industrialization cannot be the final answer for development. YouChange believes that the greatest development is the development of human beings. Our efforts to promote rural development can only be sustainable and widely applicable when we aim at empowering ethnic minority peoples to discover the value of their cultures and encouraging them to realize their own potential.

In order to do so, YouChange and the Beijing Starbucks Foundation initiated the “Star-show Future” Program which targets rural female inheritors of intangible cultural heritages, trains and empowers them in aesthetic design, marketing, financial management, social media operation, female leadership and so on.

In the next 3 years, “Star-show Future” plans to empower over 1000 female inheritors and specifically cultivate 50 of them as industrial leaders. The program will also incubate 15 rural cooperatives which will develop and produce over 90 different kinds of cultural products and 3 brands and achieve a 15% income increase for participants.

But no number speaks louder than the changes that have taken place on our participants, which is why I’d like to present you the story of Zhang Yanting.

Before Yanting signed up for the program, she was a college student who travelled to Guizhou to make a documentary about horsetail embroidery. She fell in love with the art and eventually with the people who make them. She married to the son of the national inheritor of horsetail embroidery. Together, Yanting, her husband, and her mother-in-law started a company to develop and produce embroidery pieces that combine modern aesthetics and meet the taste of the younger generation. Still, they needed guidance to bring their products into bigger markets. In the program, she was able to express her concerns and get advices from experts and fellow entrepreneurs. Their company has been growing steadily and provided employment for over 300 villagers.

In a similar program that aims at empowering rural female entrepreneurs called “Women Up!”, we have another incredible figure to introduce.

Before joining the program, Yang Shuzhen was a Miao Zu woman who failed in her adventure in the city and return home as a loser. Unwanted, constantly criticized, and been disappointed at, she thought her life was over. Then she joined the “Women Up!” program, and she was stunned by the female leadership session because she never thought women can achieve great things. After her first public speech in the session, she became the leader of her fellow women participants. They started online business together, making and selling traditional handicrafts to customers in the eastern regions. Shuzhen even made a bold move in the election of village officials and was elected the deputy director of village committee. A woman governing the village is quite the first time for her own village.

Yin Chunhuan, ah chang zu, the population is quite small, 43 thousand, cried during a co-create workshop with YouChange Foundation. She said: “we, the embroidery ladies, are trying so hard to create a better life with our callus covered hands. What I have been doing isn’t just to preserve an art, but to promote the culture of our ethnic. With the help of YouChange’s experts, our embroidery is entering mainstream market in various forms and our costumers love the products and the culture behind them.”

With the wide application of ICT in China, we have been given the opportunity to discover the value of hidden cultures, to connect the people who were temporarily left behind, and to transfer/turn their incredible intelligence and skills into economic benefits. YouChange has been doing some quite successful experiments on this road; but I believe the end of the road will be a time when every member of the society，man and women，minority and majority can fully release their creativity and have a respectable and fulfilled life.

Thank You.