07.27.10 | Taipei, Taiwan: MeiMan Lien Joins OVF as oneVillage Fellow for 2010

MeiMan Lien is the Founder & Executive Director of Nook Association of Social Awareness, Taiwan.

Ms. Lien is the first oneVillage Fellow from Taiwan. Her role is to document how oneVillage Initiative is applied in Ghana from the perspectives of a social worker involved in special education in Taiwan. Ms. Lian’s lifetime work has been on igniting human ingenuity and maximizing human potentials of the mentally challenged individuals via artistic performing and practical work training for cafe operation.

She will be working on the Research Project related to the development of oneVillage Initiative in Ghana. The focus of the work will be a reflection of the cultural values of SANKOFA.

From Wikipedia about Sankofa:

The Akan people of Ghana use an Adinkra symbol to represent this same idea and one version of it is similar to the eastern symbol of a heart, and another version is that of a bird with its head turned backwards taking an egg off its back. It symbolizes one taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress through the benevolent use of knowledge. Adinkra symbols are used by the Akan people to express proverbs and other philosophical ideas.