We are committed to Southeast Asian migrant workers' empowerment and skill training during their time in Taiwan to alleviate the poverty cycle.

Challenge

Labor-intensive works in Taiwan offer limited transferrable skills, therefore, they are not helpful for employment back home, limiting their options to low-paid laborers or going abroad again. Meanwhile, lots of migrant workers aspire to save up in Taiwan and open a small business such as a grocery store or barber. However, it's difficult to be sustainable or profitable without basic business knowledge and will be easily fall back into poverty.

Long-Term Impact

More than 50 alumni have returned and successfully opened small businesses. Adi has a ranch full of 150 goats. He applied business strategy planning with confidence in his business and set the goal to scale up to 600 goats. Evi who opened a restaurant believed Migrant business School enabled her to manage challenges in the future. 5 alumni is working in Taiwanese companies back home with stable salaries. They work as translators and earn 700 USD a month, which is 3 times higher than the average.

References

1. https://one-forty.org/
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8zc4dzSJWg&t=13s
3. https://one-forty.org/
4. https://www.facebook.com/onefortytaiwan/
5. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1n5ZssRQedPLAQPtUCwfw

Additional Documentation

https://www.globalgiving.org//pfil/49916/projdoc.pdf

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