According to statistics from taobao.com, the largest player in China's consumer e-commerce market, around three hundred public foundations and charity organizations are running their online stores through the taobao website, selling various goods from breads and handicrafts to virtual donation vouchers. What's more, some of these are doing very well.
One of those doing well is Amity Bakery, under the Chinese voluntary organization Amity Foundation, which operates with guidance from professional bakers. Amity Bakery trains young people with intellectual disabilities to make various kinds of baked goods such as cookies, breads and cakes, and sells them both online and in physical stores. After two years of operation, Amity Bakery's online shop is now contributing 2 percent of
