By Daisy Lin | Project Leader
It’s been a packed half year, starting off with our second annual surf camp with our youth from Taoyuan and WanHua meeting up in Yilan. In addition to our usual workshops,, celebrating our 10th year BUILD A HOME Anniversary at Taoyuan MuHsiang Children’s Home, we have also been working hard since the beginning of the year on a project to launch the afterschool care program in Taitung.
Since July in five different locations since July, we have provided approximately 14 workshops and 229 plant-based meals to youths. We are currently working hard on our year end fundraising for necessities and food staples which you can find under our other GlobalGiving Projects.
Our main update this time will be in regards to our Taitung, with contracts signed in October, we started the afterschool program three days a week, This provides two tutors to be there on hand Mondays and Wednesdays to assist the indigenous Amis kids with homework and a teacher that goes over cultural and indigenous Amis langauge lessosn on Fridays. In addition to this, we also hired locales to cook for them and also manage the space and the administrative work. One of our kids that has been in Bright Side creative education workshops since we first arrived in 2015 now also is one of our Bright Side Projects paid apprentices, overseeing the scheduling of chores for the kids on a weekly basis; she will also be part of our planning team for the annual Santa Jia Xin winter workshops, taking place in early January.
Thank you all for your support in 2024 and we look forward to 2025 to continue our meal programs and provide nutrition to even more kids and families around Taiwan! Take a look at our PDF for more images and descriptions of the creative education workshops and the meals provided to the youths.
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