The founders Lyn Tern Kee, an entrepreneur, and Dean Creer, a Red Cross worker, united around the goal of creating self-sustaining businesses for people living with HIV in North East China, the Positive People.

Providing medical treatment for AIDS related illnesses is an expensive process, and when the person is the breadwinner of the family, the impact of escalated medical costs and dwindling salaries and savings is tremendous.

Dean and Lyn Tern believe that teaching skills, raising capabilities and opening up business opportunities will create greater ongoing benefits, and new avenues for growth. They are committed to “making better lives” – helping individuals help themselves.

In 2008, after 12 months of planning, they invested their spare time and funds to produce the first products, a business school money clip and keychain, with the help of expert jewellers, and hand finished by Positive People China.

The proceeds from the sale of products goes to the following areas (approximate):

For Positive People community: 55%