Small Business Stories - The Seattle Chinese Post
Assunta Ng: I am publisher of the Northwest Asian Weekly in Seattle, Chinese Post. I started the Seattle Chinese Post in 1982. It’s a newspaper for Chinese Immigrants. It’s a paper written about main stream news.
The Asian Weekly is an ethnic community newspaper and both newspapers have circulation in the greatest Seattle area and I have a staff of 12 and 30 part-time people too and I’m very surprised when I received news that I will get the Trailblazer Award from Wells Fargo Bank and NAWBO because I know that this a very prestigious award and it gives out price money of $5000.00 and it means a lot to me to win this award because you’ve been busy doing things everyday and sometimes you need somebody to put a pat on your back and say, “Hey, you have done a great job and you have been a great role model for other women and entrepreneurs.” So this award sort of tell me that I’ve been doing the right thing all along that I can inspire other women to do the same.
And I’m going to use the $5000.00 price money to donate every single penny to Grameen Bank. It’s a bank for the poor, actually it’s a global bank located headquarter in Bangladesh. And it’s funded by 2006 Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus and because I’m so lucky to have the business for 26 years. I want that other female entrepreneurs to have an opportunity to create miracles like I do. So this will be the seed money to help many, many women to fulfill their dreams and I would like Grameen Bank to give us a progress report how these female entrepreneurs are doing. How many that well suckle have invested and what are their stories? How do they overcome adversities and I would like to go to Bangladesh to meet these women.
So that would be a very exciting adventure for me to write in the newspapers and tell the community there’s a good way to support the less unfortunate and under developed countries and so those would be very inspiring examples for women all over the world.
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