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In 2008, Thuy Chie joined the JICA project - a Japanese program to improve the sewing skills of ethnic minorities in Vietnam. After this project ended, Thuy decided to continue to support the upland people to develop products and find outputs for handicrafts. Thuy personally has more than 12 years of accompanying and working with groups of artisans and cooperatives of Lao people in Na Sang - Dien Bien, Thai people in Mai Chau, and many other localities in the Central region - Central Highlands of Vietnam.
Every year, Thuy organizes training courses to improve skills for local people, to come up with ideas for new products, and to teach them how to mix colors and create high-quality handicrafts. Besides, Thuy also spends a lot of time living in the ethnic villages to learn and practice the lost traditional weaving and dyeing techniques.
These activities are all aimed at improving the capacity of the local people, helping them to have more sustainable livelihoods based on their own cultural values. Through that, Thuy as well as the social enterprise Chie Dupudupa have also made more positive changes in the empowerment of minority women.
After the achievements we gain in more than a decade of accompanying local people to develop traditional weaving, Chie has become one of the leading social impact businesses in Vietnam. In 2021, Chie was honored to be selected as one of twenty businesses in Southeast Asia and the only enterprise in Vietnam to participate in the ASEAN WISE Fellowship network. ASEAN Women Impacting Social Enterprise (WISE) Fellowship is our flagship program with a vision of building a community of learning and support for the handicraft sector in ASEAN, given that 2021 is the UN Year of the Creative Economy.
Within the framework of this program, Chie is granted to implement community projects. Chie decided to organize a training course to improve sewing skills and design garments for people in Chieng Chau Cooperative, Mai Chau, Hoa Binh. Sewing is considered a skill that contributes to perfecting the entire production process of a local craft cooperative. After finishing this course, the locals will have enough knowledge and ability to make their own handmade products with high quality, delicate designs and easy to apply in life. From there, the economic value of each product will also be increased.
Chie always strives to learn and expand the network to support ethnic minorities to have more sustainable livelihoods, thereby creating a positive impact on society to attract sponsorship, create their own capital to continue developing other meaningful projects.
