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Houtong Miner's Culture and History Association Lights up Taiwan's Black Gold Years
In the process of Taiwan's economic development, there were groups of heroes who were hard-working silently in the dark mining caves. Houtong was the first coal mining area in Taiwan. However, with the massive replacement of coal with petroleum fuels and a series of mining accidents, Taiwan's mining industry gradually declined and ended. The establishment of Houtong Miner's Culture and History Association is to keep the Black Gold Years and escape them faded into the waves of history.
Chashan Tribe Turns the Tribe People into Shareholders and Takes Back the Control of the Industry
From the 921 Earthquake, Typhoon Morakot to the COVID-19 epidemic. Almost suffering massive disasters every decade, Chashan Tribe Industrial Community Cooperative (Past: Chashan Community Development Association) didn't be destroyed but transformed again and again to find new opportunities. The Tribe relied on the Tourist Industry of its natural environment and then developed into an Agri-industry upgraded in grains production and marketing. Last year (2021), the Tribe improved to a Cooperative organized by smallholders, proving that "Life finds a way."
Do Not Give Up Any Opportunity for a New Life-Taiwan Indigenous Education Economic Development Association
Young, enthusiastic, and successful in her first startup, Ms. Ma Yan-ping, a Taroko from Hualian embraces the ideal of "To help the indigenous parents find jobs so that their children can study without worries" in her second startup: The Indigenous Industry. In the past 12 years, she and the Association have gone through several adversities and transformations to find ways to survive on their own.
The Second Generation Fishermen Work Together to Revive the "Home of Grouper"-Kaohsiung Xingang Community Development Association
Yongan District of Kaohsiung City is one of the most important villages for grouper fishery in Taiwan. In 2016, an overwhelming cold snap almost destroyed the 3 years of hard work of the local fishermen. At that time, many second-generation fishermen who had been working outside of the village returned to rebuild the village, and then around 10 stayed behind. The crisis in the fishing village created another wave of industry revival in the community.
Transformation By the "Angel Wings" -Sunrise Driftwood Workshop
Located in the most beautiful Duoliang Station, Sunrise Driftwood Workshop was originally started by driftwood artworks. Later on, it established a team, expanded through the Ministry of Labor's Program, and then be popular with Duoliang Station. However, it faced major business challenges during the COVID-19 epidemic and was determined to expand its business ambition toward the third stage of transformation.
Sing-Chen Community next to Hsinchu Science Industrial Park Brings Young People Back to the “Hometown of Brown Sugar”
In the past decade, experts claimed that brown sugar has more nutrition so that made it more popular than before. This also triggered Baoshan Township of Hsinchu County was known as the “Hometown of Brown Sugar” since the Japanese Colonial Rule period to rehabilitate the sugarcane fields and recreate the brown sugar business. A semi-outsider couple, one of them has been persistent in research and development, another has adopted the best practice of the business knowledge, they have been working together by doing to create a living way for the community.