Photo: Joanna Burke, British Council China Region Director presents award

Photo: the judge makes comment



Photo: Yu Zhihai from 1kg.org 

The final list of the awardees:

Category A: Start-up 

1. Name: Yang Jing
Organization: Ourworkers  
Amount: RMB 80,000 

Ourworkers aims at improving the working environment of workers, providing various types of services to the factories in the supply chains of multinational companies or professional associations, and creating an information platform for the public to understand Chinese workers. It advocates safe and good working environment to the public through different channels, provides information to workers, and works with other NGOs to run a series of projects to raise group consciousness among workers, promote cooperation among stakeholders and their involvement in CSR.

2. Name: Hu Huizhe
Organization: Friends of Nature
Amount: RMB 80,000

The purpose of Friends of Nature's experience camps for children is to make them love nature. It gives opportunities to urban children to study, explore, adventure, and grow in nature, and feel the beauty of nature through all kinds of outdoor activities and experience camps.

Category B: Established and growing
 
1. Name: Liu Lijun  
Organization: Beijing Caisangzi Cultural and Artistic Development Centre
Amount: RMB 80,000

Caisangzi provides skill training to disadvantaged women, especially the minority women living in rural areas, to help them get out of poverty by producing traditional handicrafts. It drives urban residents to contribute more to rural development through its traditional culture industry. The final goal is to achieve the sustainable capacity building for disadvantaged women and the sustainable development of traditional culture.   

2. Name: Dong Fen  
Organization: Hua Dan
Amount: RMB 80,000

Hua Dan provides soft skills training for participants to strengthen their confidence, communication skills, creativity, conflict-handling skills and self-awareness, and thereby improve their lives and impact the development of their communities. With the development of these skills, the participants will enjoy better lives, higher income, more confidence to address challenges, more creative working styles and a happier mood.

Category C: Scale up

Name: Yu Zhihai  
Organization: 1KG.org
Amount: RMB 100,000

1KG.org is an online platform for public participation. It encourages travellers to bring some useful items during their trips and visit the rural schools and interact with the students there. Through the website, they can also share information and experience with each other, make new friends of common interests and provide sustainable services to the schools they have visited. It advocates the concept of "Voluntourism" which allows people to be directly involved rather than purely donating something, and therefore boosts their enthusiasm to participate in. 

Special Awards

1. Name: Wang Yanrui 
Organization: Senior Citizen Co-operative (Leling)
Amount: RMB 40,000

Leling aims at improving the life quality of old people in the grass-root communities and creating the Chinese model of homecare services for the old people by gathering all kinds of social resources. It combines mental care, health management and social work with the community-based homecare service for the old people, all of whom are treated in an equal and respectful way. Leling hopes every one of them could enjoy a happy and dignified life.

2. Name: Xie Yan    
Organization: Beijing One Plus One Cultural Exchange Centre
Amount: RMB 40,000

One Plus One firmly works from the disabled people's perspective. It creates a media platform, and devotes itself to promoting innovation and practices for the disabled people on professional skills, information access and social development. It also provides media services to various kinds of NGOs.

In addtion to the funding award, two organizations also won the incubation opportunties offer by NPI.

1. Name: Wang Yanrui 
Organization: Senior Citizen Co-operative (Leling)

Leling aims at improving the life quality of old people in the grass-root communities and creating the Chinese model of homecare services for the old people by gathering all kinds of social resources. It combines mental care, health management and social work with the community-based homecare service for the old people, all of whom are treated in an equal and respectful way. Leling hopes every one of them could enjoy a happy and dignified life.

2. Name: Du Shuang 
Organization: Growing Home Education Consulting Centre

Growing home is a non-profit organization on adolescent culture, education and services. It pays close attention to children's needs when they grow up, and runs a series of creative activities to help them explore their values and potential and improve their psychological health so that they could become modern citizens with love and responsibilities, and new leaders who are forward-looking and willing to help others.