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Interview 2

Lin Mei-yin, Executive Secretary,
CTBC Charity Foundation

Showing Taiwan’s vitality through sharing
women entrepreneurship guidance experience

In order to share Taiwan’s Sharing entrepreneurship include the knowledge gap, bad
experience of women micro- guidance experience, credit, pressure of looking after
entrepreneurship development with encouraging self-employment family, time restrictions, poor labor
our allied and friendly countries, to turn lives around market conditions and even being
the TaiwanICDF specifically picked Lin Mei-yin is very proud that involved in child custody cases.
the CTBC Charity Foundation the CBTC Charity Foundation was As such, every year the details of
of the CTBC Group as one of selected as one of the organizations the program’s implementation are
the organizations visited in the to be visited. She points out that the adjusted in response to the needs of
workshop to introduce how a day of the visit was a holiday but the the individuals.
private bank in Taiwan provides staff members responsible for giving From the time the program was
entrepreneurship guidance and the presentation voluntarily gave up launched to the present, Ms. Lin
micro-entrepreneurship loans their day off and the CTBC Museum, has actually seen that some women
to help disadvantaged people which was supposed to be closed, are treated in an unfriendly way
increase their ability to be was opened and all its English in the labor market due to limited
economically independent. speaking guides were on duty. She education, having to look after
Executive Secretary of the says happily, “Interacting with the children and other factors. One thing
CTBC Charity Foundation, Lin participants of the TaiwanICDF’s that especially strikes a chord with
Mei-yin, states that since it was training program was a great her is that what they want is not a
founded in November 2004, the experience. Being able to share subsidy, but to be self-sufficient. As
foundation has been focused on our program is a kind of affirmation she says, “Self-employment through
disadvantaged children and family and also lets the international entrepreneurship is a chance for
care and support. One of the community see Taiwan’s vitality and them to turn their lives around. When
important aspects of operations conscientiousness. The feedback they are able to stand on their own
in this visit, the Poverty Alleviation and professional questions asked two feet, having once been in a
Program, involves helping on the day of the visit were also a similar position, they often offer job
financially disadvantaged families pleasant surprise and I was able to opportunities or other opportunities
find suitable entrepreneurship learn quite a few different views and to disadvantaged people and
methods by providing integrated related needs from the visitors.” are generous in terms of sharing
resources of entrepreneurial The CTCB Charity Foundation their own experience, bringing the
guidance, loan support and end not only shared the operating positive power of becoming self-
marketing exposure, using funds model of the Poverty Alleviation reliant and then helping others to be
provided by the CTBC group, Program with the group of officials self-reliant in the society.”
allowing such families to break responsible for micro, small and
away from the support system by medium enterprise development
starting their own businesses. This and promotion of women’s rights,
program has been implemented managers of women’s associations
for six years and, up to date, 166 and entrepreneurs from our allied
families have successfully received and partner countries, but also
loans and started businesses, with indicated the various difficulties
80 percent of these families now that the financially disadvantaged
still operating the business they women encounter when setting
founded. up a business. These details

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