Summer in Taiwan-Won Ji Young(Korea)

Last summer, I made a decision which would change my life a lot. Air plane took off, and soon, I arrived in Taiwan. AIESEC of Taiwan University sent a friend to pick up us. Arriving in Taipei, more friends were there to help us. Asking some questions kindly, they tried to help us not to be so nervous. As Taiwan’s climate is marine tropical, it was too wet and too hot. When I arrived at the company, Eden Welfare Foundation, and participated in orientation, I was a little surprise, because almost everything was different from what I thought. Actually what we had to do was not office work, but was voluntary work. Receiving no informative e-mail, I was a little unhappy. And then, AIESECers brought us to Wang grandmother’s home-stay. I and Kim would never forget Wang grandmother’s family who were very kind to us. And we started fall in love with Taiwan.

Soon, we left Taipei and reached in Tainan. Actually our workplace was unbelievably backward facilities and environment. When we reached home we would stay in, we just couldn’t believe that. Being unsatisfied with everything, my life in Taiwan began just like that. 

Good Experience in Taiwan --Yamashita(Japan)

Hello, Everyone

I would like to tell you our good experience here in Taiwan. I came from Japan on 31st July and worked as a volunteer.

In Japan, I major in education in my university. I will be a teacher in the future. So, I came to Taiwan to learn educational system, social work and cultural understanding.
After I got arrived in Taipei we volunteer team went to Kaoshing and worked for kindergarten. There were lots of disabled children. In the school we had classes and told children our culture and played with them. Teachers and volunteers of this school were very kind and they showed me how to make good relationships with students, how to teach them and how to develop them. I cannot speak Chinese and my English skill is very poor and those students who have heavy disabilities cannot speak and cannot walk by themselves, so of course it is very difficult for us to communicate with disabled children, but I`m very happy when I see their smiling.
What should I do to keep their smiling?
How can I help them?
Only kind mind from the kind people can help disabled children, I think.

Till the end of this internship, I want to study and learn more and more.

After I get back to Japan, I would like to share this experience with my parents, my friends and lots of young people. I want to give them the opportunities to think about society. Thorough this I hope they will be interested in social problem and most of them can make good solutions in the future.

Social work for Eden -ken(Malaysia)

Hello there!

First and foremost I must send my condolence to the whole of Taiwan, 88 Typhoon from what I heard is one of the most devastating typhoon in 50 years. It took away many beloved ones and destroyed parts of Taiwan, but I believe… I strongly believe the burning passion in every Taiwanese would be able to overcome this unfortunate event and rebuild for a better tomorrow.台湾加油！

Back in Malaysia, we have no natural disasters, and I’m very grateful for that after experiencing typhoon in Taipei City. I went out for lunch, the streets were empty, the whole place was really quiet, and weather got really unpredictable. Imagine really big droplets pouring down and suddenly stops, and then it drizzles, wind starts blowing really strong, you can see that the cars are shaking. What really stun me was, the magnitude of the strength of the wind is considered pretty low in Taipei compared with Southern regions of Taiwan!!! Let’s all pray for the situation in Southern Areas to get better as soon as possible.

Social work for Eden is AWESOME! I and my team had a great time in Kaohshiung, assisting pre-elementary teachers in teaching, feeding children with disabilities, cleaning up flooded office and centre. I’m really impressed with the way the teachings are done, teachers offers help to the children with disabilities only when it is really needed, even when they start crying, the teachers will just go nearer to encourage them, cause they know they can do better, they make sure they will be able to be as independent as possible so they can cope with life as they grow older. No Pain No Gain. As volunteer we teach some of the languages we know to the students, encourage them to be more enthusiastic about learning! It was a really fun and wonderful experience working there.

2009 International Volunteer list

Thanks all the volunteers participate the 2 months activities

"We come from different nations

We exchange ideas and cultural experiences

We endeavor to change the world with love and care for the needy

We work hard an play hard

We treasure the moment

we get together We are 2009 Eden International Volunteer "

	Amado_Cerrud_Barrios
	Panama
	National Cheng Kung University

	Dante F.Recalde Melo
	Paragua
	National Cheng Kung University

	Agustin Escobar
	Paragua
	National Cheng Kung University

Come to Join Us!!

Eden Social Welfare Foundation has 75 service centers in 23 cities and counties all over Taiwan, Here is a great chance to do some volunteer work and have the opportunity to explore the beautiful Taiwan. Come to join us as an international volunteer!!

Aiming Center in Taipei County

Hey there! Towards the end of the month of July, some of the volunteers came back to the north of Taiwan
With the long days that the volunteers worked everyday I bet it must have been very tiring for them but with that I would like to praise them for their hard work. They all seemed to be enjoying themselves to the fullest and even though it could sometimes get long and hard, each volunteer put their best effort into what they did. As far as I could tell it really encouraged the children quite a bit, there was one day that the children read English together and one girl said she was scared to read but with the encouragement given from the volunteers, she became a bit more confident. That is one of the best parts because if the children were not encouraged it would have probably been the longest week of their lives. So I would like to say Thank you to all of the volunteers some whom I have met and some whom I have not met. I learned a lot watching how it all worked out and have heard great things of the volunteers in the south. I really hope that each volunteer also learned or benefited from this experience as well and I hope they all would like to continue to help out when they can. Everyone from the International Department is very pleased with how things are going and it makes us want to bring in more and more volunteers as we can.
Bye bye! Jasmin

International Volunteers in Southern Taiwan

Hello once again!!

It has been a while but I am posting with some new information of what has been going on recently in the International Department. So during the middle of July a new batch of International volunteers came together with the Eden International Department to work in summer camps in the south of Taiwan and teach children English. There were volunteers from around the world, and some of them have already experienced Taiwan because they are studying in Taiwan and the others are just here for a month or so to do volunteering here. This time around we have volunteers from Turkey, India, Korea, Panama, Paraguay and of course the local Taiwanese volunteers. This time around the volunteers would not only be teaching English to children, they have also included information on their home countries. They taught their own language, introduced unique things and foods, and also taught the children games and activities.

I am quite sad to say that I did not have the opportunity to be there with them because of my classes going on in the city but it looks like everyone enjoyed themselves! I am very glad for that because with all the work that needs to be done at times when you see the outcome, it all pays off in the end.

Well that is all I have for now, take care and Thank you for reading! Jasmin