Every family, your identity.
Every community, our wisdom.
A video-first Capture Platform connecting one Storyteller to one Story Keeper.
For the individual, Treasures Bowl nourishes physical health, emotional resilience, clear truth, loving kindness, and harmony with the planet.
For the world community, Treasures Bowl enables intergenerational storytelling to honor wisdom and catalyze harmony between cultures of East and West.
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Next 5 years
Only 1% of the world's population lives past 85. This generation — WWII survivors, witnesses of decolonization, first-generation diaspora — holds irreplaceable lived memory, rarely recorded: the grandmother who ran a market stall, the grandfather who rebuilt after the war. We have five years to reach the 70 million who are still here.
By video — capturing voice, gesture, and pause — since more than 80% of people over 85 have some hearing loss. And urgency: a living language disappears every two weeks.
We start with the Chinese diaspora — an estimated 70 million people worldwide, and a community our founding team can reach — and invite every other diaspora and community group to join as Bowl Circles.
Our focus is those born in 1940 or earlier — the generation at greatest risk of being lost. Storytellers born through 1950 are warmly welcome too, widening the circle while we race to reach the oldest first.
What if every person’s wisdom could be passed on? Treasures Bowl removes what stands in the way — language, hearing, distance — pairing a Storyteller with a Story Keeper for one real video conversation that grows into a living archive for future generations.
Each conversation is guided by vetting and prompts that make sharing safe and easy, on a device-agnostic Capture Platform that rewards the Story Keeper's time. All content is consent-only, revocable throughout, and owned by the Storyteller and Story Keeper.
In Chinese tradition, the character for “to listen” is composed of ear, eyes, undivided attention, and heart — true listening happens only when all four align.
This is the Singapore Prototype Trial — to be tested and refined.
Objective and value — pay in, or receive.
In person, Singapore pilot.
Guided prompts, video or audio — with Storyteller's consent.
Co-create Video Clip — 30–90 seconds, published to the Share Platform.
Authentic stories carry clear truth. Treasures Bowl builds the pathway to wisdom through one-to-one, live video — because more than 80% of people over 85 live with some hearing loss, and expression carries meaning audio alone loses.
Patient observation builds emotional resilience. Guided prompts also surface the ancestral foods and habits that carried a family’s wellbeing across generations.
Unlike self-serve tools or general-purpose archives, Treasures Bowl is built to bridge dialect and culture, not just capture whatever language happens to be spoken — inclusively, for every diaspora and generation. It’s designed to offer real livelihood for the Storytellers, Story Keepers, and communities who fill it.
Treasures Bowl’s Share Platform will hold the breadth of ancestral wisdom for living consciously alongside the natural world — across genders, ages, and cultures, East and West.
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little PrinceFrom card decks to national archives, most approaches sit at one end or the other. Treasures Bowl is built where facilitated, trained listening meets a collective, licensable archive.
72,800 citizens aged 85 and older call Singapore home today. Nearly 6 in 10 speak a Chinese dialect — Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese — as their home language, one their own grandchildren often can’t speak back. And 6 in 10 already live under the same roof as their children: the Story Keeper is often a few steps away, not a plane ride.
September — Test prototype and validate business model with up to 50 stories. October to December — Pilot MVP to collect up to 300 stories. November — Pilot live interactive video and sound show.
Dates are directional and will evolve as the pilot progresses.
Any family relation, self-guided, no intermediary. A grandchild or great-grandchild is a priority.
Start with Your Own FamilyNon-relative. Age 19 and below. Connected and vetted through a school, senior home, or community partner. We are testing incentives, including “Best Bowl” prizes.
Join as a Community Story KeeperNon-relative. Age 20 and above. Mission driven. Institution-vouched. No incentive.
Join as a Community FriendNamed sponsorship of Treasures Bowl Jam’s visual montage and live soundscape show.
Discuss SponsorshipGrants, in-kind support, and sponsorship — for funders who want these stories preserved.
Explore PartnershipFrom archive infrastructure to wearable translation and hearing-assist devices — help us build the technology that lets every Storyteller be heard, in their own words, their own tongue.
Explore Technology PartnershipBring Treasures Bowl to your own community once our Singapore Pilot concludes. New ‘Bowl Circle’ terms confirmed post-Scoop.
Express InterestMother and daughter connecting — precious and fun. ✦There once was an ahma 阿妈 with tattles,
Of healing food and typhoon rattles,
Her grandkid pressed ‘record’,
Videoed wisdom, not bored,
Now her laughs become family chattels.
April Swando Hu 🔗
Founder & Executive Chair · 不忘初心
Oldest sister of five · mother of four · Yale University BSc Electrical Engineering · Stanford MBA · Certified Integral Coach · Chair, Yale International Alliance · Founder, Zigen Fund · 5× Edu-Tech Entrepreneur
Origin of Name
I chose Treasures Bowl 聚寶盆 for its folklore: long ago, the Jade Emperor kept it at the center of his Heavenly Palace, until the mischievous Monkey King kicked it down to Earth — where it went on to enable countless kind deeds by multiplying any good thing placed inside it.
“Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separation.”
بشنو از نی چون حکایت میکند · از جداییها شکایت میکند
— Rumi, Masnavi, Book I“Know the strength of the masculine, but keep the gentleness of the feminine — and become the valley stream of the world.”
知其雄,守其雌,為天下溪。
— Laozi, Tao Te Ching · 老子,《道德經》Join the Founding Team
Actively recruiting a Founding CEO, Fractional CFO (financial model, IP structure), and CTO — all mission-aligned, result-bearing roles.
Enquire About RolesWe’ll be in touch soon.