Miao Life 2009 Activity Report

When I started Miao Life in early 2009, after dedicating myself for 3 and a half years to Couleurs de Chine ( the French NGO founded by Francoise Grenot-Wang ), my goals for 2009 were to raise awareness of the Miao Life new concept and make one significant accomplishment in the Danian area depending on how much funds we would have raised.

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Patrick Nicolas - Miao Life founder

I am French national, living in China since 1997 and I have established my own trading company (DV8 Limited). In June 2005, I accepted to take over the responsibility of the Guangzhou "Couleurs de Chine" representational office which was run at that time by a young French student who had very limited resources.

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Miao Life is a foundation created in early 2008 to help the local Miao minority in the North-East Guangxi province, Rongshui County, Danian district. We mainly operate in the education sector by providing help to local primary schools ( books, stationery, school bags, equipment donations, etc¡­. )

We are raising funds through FAIR TRADE (sales of bag collections with our registered brand name in China "MIAO LIFE" of which 100% of profit sales, go directly to the foundation) and various fundraising activities in Guangzhou and Xiamen.

Thanks to the 2009 fundraisings activities (Miao Life Terrace Café, Miao Life St-Nicolas party) and product sales profits, we have developed our first project last September 2009, in Danian area, to the Linglang primary school. Miao Life has provided about 500 books to the newly refurbished library. A 20 mins DVD movie has been made to relate the book remittance to the school and is available upon request.

With the remaining funds available from the year 2009 and the 2010 upcoming activities, we plan to deliver for the next back to school period (September 2010) the following :

  • note books
  • pens and stationery
  • books
  • uniform clothing in the traditional local style


We do believe that this will help the young students to enjoy their schooling and then enhance their desire to study for their future in society.

We thank you very much for your attention and desire to know more about Miao Life and hopefully you will make a contribution to our long term action.

Sincerely yours,

Patrick Nicolas
Miao Life founder
Email : gzmiaolife@gmail.com



Nowadays, various serious issues of our world has brought corporations or businesses to think about their responsibility for the impact of their activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities and all other members of the public sphere.

CSR is a form of self-regulation to promote the public interest by encouraging community growth and development. It's the deliberate inclusion of public interest into corporate decision-making and the honoring of a "Triple Bottom Line" : People, Planet, Profit.

Now, more and more consumers do care of companies ethics and would rather then be clients to ethical ones. The Miao Life "initiative" gives a chance to businesses to fulfill their CSR policies and also reward them by promoting their image into the social community.

By helping others, you can help yourself. So be responsible and be part of the Miao Life community. You can simply help by promoting Miao Life foundation around your own environment or by financing one the different Miao Life projects.

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