SHEIN deeply empowers the supplier community and continues to implement a number of public welfare projects

Handcrafting, physical training, game experience ... Recently, SHEIN and its supplier community launched a summer camp for supply chain employees in Guangzhou and Dongguan. During the one-month period, more than 300 employees and their children from suppliers in the SHEIN industry chain had a colorful summer vacation experience in multiple venues.

Accompanying children during the summer vacation is a problem that every dual-income family will face. This is the fourth consecutive year that SHEIN has teamed up with suppliers to organize a summer camp for supplier employee families. So far, more than 700 people have participated, and it has received a warm response from suppliers and their employees' families.

The reporter learned that in recent years, SHEIN has continued to lead the digital upgrade of the traditional apparel manufacturing industry and enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of suppliers by providing digital technology tools and management training from organization to operations. At the same time, it has also paid attention to the soft culture and corporate social responsibility of the supplier community, and worked with suppliers to promote the implementation of a number of community public welfare projects, helping them to build and create a family-friendly working environment and a cultural atmosphere of actively assuming corporate social responsibility.

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In addition to the summer camp activities for the families of supplier employees mentioned above, SHEIN also promotes the construction of supplier children's homes, providing free after-school care services for children aged 6-16 of the families of cooperative supplier employees; and launched the Juxingguang Charity Funding Project, in which SHEIN provides funding to help supplier employees who are facing emergencies and need financial support; in addition, it also invests funds to build and upgrade entertainment, accommodation and other facilities for the supplier community, and continues to work with suppliers to care for supplier employees and families.

Among them, SHEIN provides construction and operation funding for the Supplier Children's Home, which is a safe and reliable activity room established near the cooperative supplier's factory or on the supplier's own site. It hires a dedicated person to take care of it. In addition to care, reading, and homework tutoring, it also organizes cultural and sports activities from time to time to help suppliers enable their employees' children to play and learn in a safe and enjoyable environment, strengthen their social skills through interactions with other children, and the supplier's employees and children can also participate in parent-child activities together.

An employee of a SHEIN clothing supplier factory in Qingyuan, Guangdong , sincerely said that this solved a major pain point in his family, which was that there were no elderly people to take care of the children. Since the opening of the Children's Home in his factory, there are dedicated people to take care of the children after school and during the winter and summer vacations when the parents are at work. While the children develop good study habits, they can also accompany and play with many children of the same age, actively participate in group activities, and gain friendship and a sense of collective honor.

As of the first half of 2024, SHEIN has helped supplier communities build and operate 12 children's homes in 7 cities, serving more than 31,000 people in total; the supplier employee family summer camp charity event, which was trial-run in 2021, has served more than 700 people in total; the Starry Sky project has provided funding to more than 540 supplier employee families in total; and helped nearly 200 cooperative supplier factories to upgrade and renovate more than 500,000 square meters of factory buildings, benefiting nearly 33,000 people. The upgrade and renovation of its canteens, dormitories and multi-purpose rooms has covered nearly 11,000 square meters, greatly improving the satisfaction of supplier employees.

"As a factory, if we care more about our employees, listen more to their needs and resolve their worries, they will naturally work more stably and with peace of mind. The support and help SHEIN provides to our suppliers has been of great help to our operations and management," said Wang Tao, the owner of a SHEIN supplier factory that has grown from a small factory to one with more than 700 employees.

In recent years, in order to comprehensively promote the improvement of the comprehensive capabilities of supplier factories, SHEIN has continued to carry out supplier empowerment actions in many aspects, such as technological innovation, training support, factory expansion, and community services, to help traditional garment factories transform and upgrade. In the first half of 2023, SHEIN announced that it would invest 500 million yuan over five years to continue to deepen its supplier empowerment work.

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