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• Going Green with Tony Blair
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  Monday, Aug 24, 2009 6:58PM / Standard Entry / The One Foundation

  Firstly, thank you to all of you whom have supported the Morakot disaster in Taipei. Your love is felt all across the world.

  
  

  Yesterday, I visited Guiyang, China with Former Prime Minister Tony Blair to announce our "Thousand Villages Project" that focuses on changing the way electricity is consumed in China and the world by taking people off the electrical grid and switching them to solar power. In addition to using renewal power, switching lighting not only in the household but also in buildings and streetlamps to LED takes less power to use longer. That's like doing three simple things at once to make sure the next generation can see blue skies more often.
  
  Tony told me that in Britain, driving electrical cars and using renewal power has already become the norm. 

  
  Amazing.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  Sharing a laugh with Tony.

  
  

  Over the past two years, each progressive step that the One Foundation has taken in helping with public welfare matters or charity related work often makes me very excited. I’m always touched when I see even more people join hand-in-hand with the One Foundation and launching a project together because of an idea, because they identify with us, and because they care about our society. This kind of feeling totally exceeds the satisfied feeling of that I get after completing a film.
  
  If you don’t take the small steps, how will you walk a thousand miles; the progress of public welfare and charity related work depends precisely on every little matter that might not be of any interest.
  
  Yesterday, the Climate Group and the One Foundation jointly launched the “Solar-powered LED Lighting the Thousand Villages Project”. This is the first collaborative project between the Climate Group and the One Foundation since signing a cooperative strategy memorandum agreement in March of this year.

  
  

  

  Walking instead of driving to the Conference Hall.

  
  

  

  Formalizing our "Thousand Villages Project" with the Climate Group.

  
  

  

  Presenting our Solar Powered/LED equipped model village in Guiyang.

  
  

  

  See the blue sky behind us? A rare sight to behold in China, but one that can be an everyday reality if we all do our part.

  
  

  

  
  

  I’d like to ask everyone a very simple question – have you ever experienced a power-cut before? Or maybe try to imagine, what would you do if you had no power at night? How much would it affect your lifestyle and the way you live? What I want to say is, there are a lot of people living right next to us – in rural villages throughout China, in India, in Africa – they live in an environment with no electricity or power sources.
  
  Luckily, this kind of phenomenon is in the process of changing. Yesterday, I represented the One Foundation and together with one of the co-founders of the Climate Group, former British Prime Minister Mr. Tony Blair, we jointly launched the “Solar-powered LED Lighting the Thousand Villages Project”. We also visited Baigong Village in Dang Wuxiang of Huaxi district, Guaiyang. This village is also our first illustrative example for the Thousand Village Project. The time frame set for the Solar-powered LED Lighting the Thousand Villages Project is five years. The project will involve 400 villages around China in the first two years. In the next three years to follow, the project will expand to over 600 villages within countries including China, India and Africa.

  
  

  
  

  

  Amy Zhou (our One Foundation Executive Chairman), Tony Blair, and Me.

  
  

  

  My good friend Khalik Malid from the United Nations Development Program. He's the UN Resident Coordinator in China.

  
  

  

  Presenting Tony with a handkerchief as a gift from our Qiang Embroidery social entrepreneurship project in Sichuan.

  
  

  
  

  Because the power supply of some remote villages still isn’t connected to the Country’s electricity network, using this kind of solar-powered LED light technology has become a very good idea as a substitute. Not only will this kind of technology solve lighting problems in some areas around China, it will also reduce the amount of greenhouse emissions in village areas because solar-powered LED lights is powered by the sun, a clean and unlimited source of energy.
  
  I’ve frequently participated in various types of international economic forums and cultural exchanges over the past few years and I can honestly feel that the global economy is becoming more aware of environmental protection and is developing a tendency towards lower carbon emissions. I am very pleased to collaborate with the Climate Group in this project. I’m first going to conduct some demonstrations in rural villages around China, and while solving the problem and constructing roadside lighting for villages in China, I’ll also be able to promote the idea of a new form of environmental protection that can be universalized and developed in China. This is definitely something beneficial. Climate change is not just an environmental issue; it’s also an economic and development issue. In the proposal document, “The Road to Lower Carbon Emissions, Cities Work Together”, we invited many cities within China to participate in this project and help reduce greenhouse emissions, optimize energy resources, and to promote cleaner greener technological innovations.
  
  I personally agree very much with a saying that Mr. Blair said at this event: “We can encourage the world to choose a future with lower carbon emissions. But what we need now is to take action.” I’d also like to take this opportunity to make an appeal to everyone – take action immediately, support environmental protection. Start from doing little things every day such as saving electricity usage.
  
  Let’s take action together! I hope that everyone in our One Foundation family will be proud of the One Foundation for taking another progressive step!

  
  
  
  

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• What the One Foundation family can do to help
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  Monday, Aug 17, 2009 8:55PM / Standard Entry / The One Foundation

  
  

  Over the past few days, Taiwan has suffered from the worst ever flooding disaster in 50 years. The One Foundation has kept in close contact with Red Cross in Taiwan, and also donated RMB$300,000 emergency relief funds to help aid the disaster victims.
  
  As Chinese descendants from the same heritage, last year when the earthquake struck Wenchuan, our countrymen residing overseas and our compatriots from Taiwan gave the people in Sichuan huge financial aid and support, as well as spreading love and compassion to them. This time, let’s see what the people from the One Foundation can do for them. We making an appeal and calling upon everyone to reach out a helping hand. Through the Red Cross, the One Foundation will use the donations and raised funds to help our brothers and sisters in Taiwan as soon as possible!
  
  Make a donation to the One Foundation (visit: http://www.onefoundation.cn/html/cn/beneficence_01.htm)
  If making donations at the bank or post office, please clearly indicate: "Donation to those affected by the disaster in Taiwan."
  
  
  
  

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• Visiting the Kaoshiung Disaster Area
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  Monday, Aug 17, 2009 8:50PM / Standard Entry / The One Foundation

  2009.8.14

  
  

  Since the 12^th of August, the One Foundation has united with 9 of the largest websites, appealing to everyone online to make donations for the Typhoon Morakot disaster relief fund. On the 13^th of August, we realized how serious the situation was. This planet is my home; wherever there is a problem at home, I have to go and check it out! All our brothers in the One Foundation rescue alliance are very worried and feel the urgency of the matter. However, they temporarily can’t go to the disaster zone at the moment. But that’s okay. They can go to the disaster area in Zhejiang first; I still have many brothers in Taiwan.
  

  
  

  Over the past year, I’ve established a close relationship with the Red Cross in Taiwan and have been keeping in close contact with them. So on the first day when I arrived in Taiwan, I went directly to the Red Cross office, talked with the secretary-general, Chen Shikui, and gained a better understanding of the progress for disaster relief in the region.
  
  

  

  In the evening, I attended two large scale televised fundraising events, raised funds for the Red Cross, and helped answered telephone calls from the public who called in to donate money.
  

  
  

  2009.8.15

  Early this morning, I joined with team leader Zhang, the leader of the second largest Red Cross rescue team, and team leader Lin, leader of the third largest team, and a group of rescue relief workers (our brothers) and we headed south of Kaohsiung County into the disaster area.

  
  

  
  

  

  On the way to Liouguei Village.
  
  In the nine hours that were to follow, I clearly understood the process of being a front line rescue relief worker. Most of our brothers in these rescue teams don’t even get 2 hours of sleep. They have been fully involved with rescue and relief work for seven days already. Many of them have stories that no one knows about, but I am deeply touched by them and I’ve also learnt many things. I know that these experiences will be very useful in future rescue relief efforts.

  
  

  A group photo with the Red Cross Rescue team. Many team members haven’t slept for days.

  
  We first went to the Chishan Rescue Center for disaster victims where Buddhist monks from Fu Guang Shan and volunteer workers have been taking care of the disaster victims. Many disaster victims rescued by the helicopter have been placed here temporarily. The Chishan Middle School is the largest local disaster relief center. I saw helicopters taking off and landing; I saw disaster victims being rescued after being trapped for 7 days. I watched the process of urgent medical treatment, injuries being examined and classified into various categories, and then appropriately taken to hospital or allocated to the nearest rescue center.
  

   

  
  We had 10 trucks each filled with 3.5 tons of materials and supplies transported to Liouguei Village. Together with the volunteer workers, we unloaded the trucks and gave the supplies directly into the hands of the disaster victims.
  

   

   
  

  Supplies sent by many loving and compassionate people from various different places. These have been collected and transferred from Fengshan City Council. I was very pleased to see so many young people being involved as volunteers, and also the young children volunteers wearing the Red Cross vests. Under the supervision of their parents, the whole family has set out and become involved with volunteer work!
  

   

  
  
  During the entire journey, I was accompanied by two team leaders from the Red Cross rescue teams. We shared our experiences of each disaster relief operation that we’ve participated in, and we discussed how professional rescue workers are assessed and distributed. It allowed me to learn a lot of things. I also hope that they’ll be able to pass on the final report about the disaster to the One Foundation so that the One Foundation will be able to draw even more valuable lessons and experiences for future disaster relief alliances.
  
  We noticed a phenomenon – that is, the bigger the disaster for humans, the stronger the burst of love and compassion that results from it! But we also think that life should be equal. Even if there was a disaster involving a few people, we should still try our best to help and rescue them. And each rescue effort needs the support of funds and supplies. Only significant disasters gain people’s attention and that is when we realize we don’t have enough supplies. We should accumulate supplies in normal times as a preventative measure for when global warming increases in the future, causing even more disasters.
  

   

  

  August 15^th, at the Chishan Rescue Center visiting local disaster victims.
  

   

  

  At the rescue center with children from Kaohsiung singing “We Are One Family” together.
  

   

  

  The disastrous situation in Liouguei Village.
  
  On the way to Taiwan, I passed through Red Cross in China and I brought RMB$300,000 to the people in Taiwan. This amount of money is nowhere near enough but all of this is a tribute of love and compassion from everybody, accumulated a little bit at a time every day. This is a representation of everybody’s kind intentions.
  
  Each time after a disaster strikes, the greatest impression I have is that – a disaster is here, everyone must try their best to devote their strength and energy. But as long you care about other people care and have concern for them at normal times, small flows can accumulate into large rivers, and when a disaster strikes, you’ll be able to provide disaster relief assistance to the people who need help when they need help.
  
  This is also one of the One Foundation’s dreams, and something we insist on doing. “1+1+1, one person, one month, one dollar – forming one big family!”
  Deeply grateful. You can offer your love and compassion through this particular method:
  

  http://www.onefoundation.cn/html/cn/beneficence_01.htm

   

  

  Houses that have been destroyed and washed away

  
  

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• August 15th at the Kaoshiung Rescue Center
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  Monday, Aug 17, 2009 4:30PM / Standard Entry / The One Foundation

  Hello everyone, this blog is being written by Jet Li’s assistant. I know that everybody has been very interested in Mr. Li’s itinerary during his visit in Taiwan. I just happen to have a little spare time so I’m quickly going to tell you a few updates so far:

  This afternoon, Jet Li arrived at the Chishan Rescue Center in Kaohsiung and visited the local disaster victims. Even though this terrible catastrophe has left these people homeless, they still remain very optimistic and hopeful. The most heart-moving thing that happened was when the young children from Kaohsiung sang “We Are One Family” (wǒmen dōu shì yījiārén) together with Mr.Li.

   

  

  
  

  Afterwards, we loaded relief supplies onto a truck that was heading for Liouguei Village.

   

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• One Foundation PSA
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  Monday, Aug 17, 2009 4:32AM / Standard Entry

  Directed by my good friend and acclaimed director Nancy Wong (王念慈), this is our newest public service announcement on behalf of the One Foundation which is already airing in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China. Fantastic news, the One Foundation will officially be kicking off in Taiwan later this year!
  
  A selection of "Making-Of" pictures are also posted in albums.
  
  Let me know what you guys think!

  
  

  
  
  
  

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